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  • Electron distributions exhibit velocity-space signatures indicative of the rapid energy released by magnetic reconnection explosions occurring in Earth’s magnetosphere and in plasmas throughout the universe. Here, the authors discover a smile-shaped signature in the electron gradient distribution associated with reconnection occurring at Earth’s dayside magnetopause boundary.

    • Jason R. Shuster
    • Naoki Bessho
    • Dominic S. Payne
    ResearchOpen Access
    Communications Physics
    P: 1-10

  • Alfvén waves are fundamental plasma modes that provide a mechanism for the transfer of energy between particles and fields. Here the authors confirm experimentally the conservative energy exchange between Alfvén wave fields and plasma particles via high-resolution MMS observations of Earth’s magnetosphere.

    • Daniel J. Gershman
    • Adolfo F-Viñas
    • James L. Burch
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 8, P: 1-10

  • A new NASA mission will reveal the electron-scale physics of magnetic reconnection, a process that connects our planet to the rest of the Universe.

    • Thomas Earle Moore
    • James L. Burch
    • Roy B. Torbert
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Physics
    Volume: 11, P: 611-613

  • The magnetospheric multiscale mission (MMS) consists of four identical spacecraft used to collect data on the interaction between the Sun and Earth’s magnetic fields and study how the various interactions govern the dynamics of phenomena such as plasmas and particle movement. Here, the authors analyse MMS data on charge distribution, showing that there is a separation of charge on the dawn and dusk sectors of the inner magnetosphere.

    • Lai Gao
    • Chao Shen
    • James L. Burch
    ResearchOpen Access
    Communications Physics
    Volume: 7, P: 1-9