Advanced Methods for Analyzing in-Situ Observations of Magnetic Reconnection

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There is ample evidence for magnetic reconnection in the solar system, but it is a nontrivial task to visualize, to determine the proper approaches and frames to study, and in turn to elucidate the physical processes at work in reconnection regions from in-situ measurements of plasma particles and electromagnetic fields. Here an overview is given of a variety of single- and multi-spacecraft data analysis techniques that are key to revealing the context of in-situ observations of magnetic reconnection in space and for detecting and analyzing the diffusion regions where ions and/or electrons are demagnetized. We focus on recent advances in the era of the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, which has made electron-scale, multi-point measurements of magnetic reconnection in and around Earth’s magnetosphere.

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Hasegawa, H., Argall, M. R., Aunai, N., Bandyopadhyay, R., Bessho, N., Cohen, I. J., Denton, R. E., Dorelli, J. C., Egedal, J., Fuselier, S. A., Garnier, P., Génot, V., Graham, D. B., Hwang, K. J., Khotyaintsev, Y. V., Korovinskiy, D. B., Lavraud, B., Lenouvel, Q., Li, T. C., … Zenitani, S. (2024). Advanced Methods for Analyzing in-Situ Observations of Magnetic Reconnection. Space Science Reviews, 220(6), 68. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-024-01095-w

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