A groundbreaking X-ray imager is on its way to revolutionize our understanding of Earth's magnetic defenses. This ...

Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental physical process in plasmas, through which the magnetic energy is converted into plasma kinetic energy and thermal energy rapidly. Current sheets in ...

Magnetic reconnection—a process in which the magnetic field lines of Earth and the sun snap together, releasing bursts of radiation—is also thought to be linked to chorus waves, supplying some ...

The byproduct of this magnetic reconnection—synchrotron emission—occurs when energized electrons travel at speeds close to the speed of light along the magnetic field lines of the supermassive ...

When radiation hits Earth's magnetosphere, it either gets reflected or trapped along magnetic field lines before raining down on the poles in a process known as magnetic reconnection.

there's more to understand about magnetic reconnection and the turbulence in Sgr A*'s accretion disk," study co-lead author Sebastiano von Fellenberg, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for ...

At its core, the Russell-McPherron effect revolves around magnetic reconnection, which occurs when magnetic field lines traveling in opposite directions meet and merge. During the equinoxes ...

There are magnetic field lines going through this disk and when two lines get close, they can connect, releasing a lot of energy. Basically, the reconnection accelerates electrons to close to the ...

Our research group at LASP has built, or is currently building, electric field and wave instruments on five NASA missions including, FAST (Earth's aurora), THEMIS (Earth's magnetosphere), RBSP ...

My research has centered on magnetic reconnection in space and laboratory plasmas, with emphasis on particle distributions, instabilities and the role and nature of nonlinear electron phase space ...

Magnetospheric physics is the study of the magnetic fields surrounding the ... energy landscape during an encounter with a magnetic reconnection site in the Earth’s magnetosphere.