Abstract: This work describes the development and testing of a new instrument for in situ measurements…
Author: New NASA STI
Energy Limits of Electron Acceleration in the Plasma Sheet During Substorms: A Case Study with the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Mission
Abstract: We present multipoint observations of earthward moving dipolarization fronts and energetic particle injections from NASAs…
MMS Multipoint Electric Field Observations of Small-Scale Magnetic Holes
Abstract: Small-scale magnetic holes (MHs), local depletions in magnetic field strength, have been observed multiple times…
Deep Morphological and Spectral Study of the SNR RCW 86 with Fermi-LAT
Abstract: RCW 86 is a young supernova remnant (SNR) showing a shell-type structure at several wavelengths…
Decay of Mesoscale Flux Transfer Events During Quasi-Continuous Spatially Extended Reconnection at the Magentopause
Abstract: We present observations on 2 October 201Swhen the Geotail spacecraft, near the Earth's equatorial plane,…
Energetic Electron Acceleration Observed by MMS in the Vicinity of an X-Line Crossing
Abstract: During the first months of observations, the Magnetospheric Multiscale Fly's Eye Energetic Particle Spectrometer instrument…
Extended Magnetohydrodynamics with Embedded Particle-in-Cell Simulation of Ganymede’s Magnetosphere
Abstract: We have recently developed a new modeling capability to embed the implicit particle-in-cell (PIC) model…
Observation of High-Frequency Electrostatic Waves in the Vicinity of the Reconnection Ion Diffusion Region by the Spacecraft of the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Mission
Abstract: We report Magnetospheric Multiscale observations of high-frequency electrostatic waves in the vicinity of the reconnection…
Cold Ion Demagnetization near the X-line of Magnetic Reconnection
Abstract: Although the effects of magnetic reconnection in magnetospheres can be observed at planetary scales, reconnection…
Improved Band-to-Band Registration Characterization for VIIRS Reflective Solar Bands Based on Lunar Observations
Abstract: Spectral bands of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrumentaboard the Suomi National Polar-orbiting…