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A. C. Rager
Researcher at Goddard Space Flight Center
Publications - 38
Citations - 2124
A. C. Rager is an academic researcher from Goddard Space Flight Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Magnetic reconnection & Magnetopause. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 36 publications receiving 1420 citations. Previous affiliations of A. C. Rager include The Catholic University of America.
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Fast Plasma Investigation for Magnetospheric Multiscale
Craig J. Pollock,T. E. Moore,A. D. Jacques,James L. Burch,U. Gliese,Yoshifumi Saito,T. Omoto,Levon A. Avanov,Levon A. Avanov,A. C. Barrie,Victoria N. Coffey,John C. Dorelli,Daniel J. Gershman,Daniel J. Gershman,Daniel J. Gershman,Barbara L. Giles,T. Rosnack,C. Salo,Shoichiro Yokota,M. L. Adrian,C. Aoustin,C. Auletti,S. Aung,V. Bigio,N. Cao,Michael O. Chandler,Dennis J. Chornay,Dennis J. Chornay,K. Christian,George Clark,George Clark,George Clark,Glyn Collinson,Glyn Collinson,T. Corris,A. De Los Santos,R. Devlin,T. Diaz,T. Dickerson,C. Dickson,A. Diekmann,F. Diggs,C. Duncan,A. Figueroa-Vinas,C. Firman,M. Freeman,N. Galassi,K. Garcia,G. Goodhart,D. Guererro,J. Hageman,Jennifer Hanley,E. Hemminger,Matthew Holland,M. Hutchins,T. James,W. Jones,S. Kreisler,Joseph Kujawski,Joseph Kujawski,V. Lavu,J. V. Lobell,E. LeCompte,A. Lukemire,Elizabeth MacDonald,Al. Mariano,Toshifumi Mukai,K. Narayanan,Q. Nguyan,M. Onizuka,William R. Paterson,S. Persyn,Benjamin M. Piepgrass,F. Cheney,A. C. Rager,A. C. Rager,T. Raghuram,A. Ramil,L. S. Reichenthal,H. Rodriguez,Jean-Noël Rouzaud,A. Rucker,Marilia Samara,Jean-André Sauvaud,D. Schuster,M. Shappirio,K. Shelton,D. Sher,David Smith,Kerrington D. Smith,S. E. Smith,S. E. Smith,D. Steinfeld,R. Szymkiewicz,K. Tanimoto,J. Taylor,Compton J. Tucker,K. Tull,A. Uhl,J. Vloet,P. Walpole,P. Walpole,S. Weidner,D. White,G. E. Winkert,P.-S. Yeh,M. Zeuch +106 more
TL;DR: The Fast Plasma Investigation (FPI) was developed for flight on the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission to measure the differential directional flux of magnetospheric electrons and ions with unprecedented time resolution to resolve kinetic-scale plasma dynamics as mentioned in this paper.
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Electron magnetic reconnection without ion coupling in Earth's turbulent magnetosheath
T. D. Phan,Jonathan Eastwood,Michael Shay,James Drake,Bengt U. Ö. Sonnerup,M. Fujimoto,Paul Cassak,Marit Øieroset,James L. Burch,Roy B. Torbert,A. C. Rager,A. C. Rager,John C. Dorelli,Daniel J. Gershman,C. J. Pollock,Prayash Sharma Pyakurel,Colby Haggerty,Yuri V. Khotyaintsev,Benoit Lavraud,Yoshitaka Saito,Mitsuo Oka,Robert E. Ergun,Alessandro Retinò,O. Le Contel,Matthew R. Argall,Barbara L. Giles,Thomas E. Moore,Frederick Wilder,Robert J. Strangeway,Christopher T. Russell,Per-Arne Lindqvist,Werner Magnes +31 more
TL;DR: Observations of electron-scale current sheets in Earth’s turbulent magnetosheath reveal electron reconnection without ion coupling, contrary to expectations from the standard model of magnetic reconnection.
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Currents and Associated Electron Scattering and Bouncing Near the Diffusion Region at Earth's Magnetopause
Benoit Lavraud,Benoit Lavraud,Y. C. Zhang,Y. C. Zhang,Y. Vernisse,Y. Vernisse,Daniel J. Gershman,Daniel J. Gershman,John C. Dorelli,Paul Cassak,J. Dargent,J. Dargent,Craig J. Pollock,Barbara L. Giles,Nicolas Aunai,Matthew R. Argall,Levon A. Avanov,Levon A. Avanov,A. C. Barrie,James L. Burch,M. O. Chandler,L. J. Chen,George Clark,Ian J. Cohen,V. N. Coffey,Jonathan Eastwood,Jan Egedal,Stefan Eriksson,Robert E. Ergun,Charlie J. Farrugia,S. A. Fuselier,Vincent Génot,Vincent Génot,Daniel B. Graham,Elena Grigorenko,Hiroshi Hasegawa,Christian Jacquey,Christian Jacquey,I. Kacem,I. Kacem,Yu. V. Khotyaintsev,Elizabeth MacDonald,Werner Magnes,Aurélie Marchaudon,Aurélie Marchaudon,Barry Mauk,Thomas E. Moore,Toshifumi Mukai,Rumi Nakamura,William R. Paterson,E. Penou,E. Penou,Tai Phan,A. C. Rager,A. C. Rager,Alessandro Retinò,Zhaojin Rong,Christopher Russell,Yoshifumi Saito,J. A. Sauvaud,J. A. Sauvaud,Steven J. Schwartz,Steven J. Schwartz,C. Shen,S. E. Smith,S. E. Smith,Robert J. Strangeway,Sergio Toledo-Redondo,Roy B. Torbert,Drew Turner,Shan Wang,Shoichiro Yokota +71 more
TL;DR: In this article, high-resolution measurements from NASA's Magnetospheric Multlscale mission were used to demonstrate the occurrence of electron scattering in the curved magnetic field of the diffusion region down to energies of 20eV.
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Magnetotail reconnection onset caused by electron kinetics with a strong external driver.
San Lu,Rongsheng Wang,Rongsheng Wang,Quanming Lu,Quanming Lu,Vassilis Angelopoulos,Rumi Nakamura,A. V. Artemyev,A. V. Artemyev,P. L. Pritchett,Terry Z. Liu,Xinli Zhang,Wolfgang Baumjohann,Walter D. Gonzalez,A. C. Rager,Roy B. Torbert,Barbara L. Giles,D. J. Gershman,Christopher T. Russell,Robert J. Strangeway,Yi Qi,Robert E. Ergun,P. A. Lindqvist,James L. Burch,Shui Wang,Shui Wang +25 more
TL;DR: It is shown, using spacecraft observations and particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations, that magnetotail reconnection starts from electron reconnection in the presence of a strong external driver and develops into ion reconnection.
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Magnetospheric Multiscale Dayside Reconnection Electron Diffusion Region Events
James Webster,James L. Burch,Patricia H. Reiff,Antoun G. Daou,Kevin Genestreti,Daniel B. Graham,Roy B. Torbert,Robert E. Ergun,Stanislav Sazykin,A. Marshall,Robert Allen,L. J. Chen,Shan Wang,T. D. Phan,Barbara L. Giles,Thomas E. Moore,S. A. Fuselier,S. A. Fuselier,G. Cozzani,Christopher T. Russell,Stefan Eriksson,A. C. Rager,J. M. Broll,J. M. Broll,K. A. Goodrich,Frederick Wilder +25 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used high-resolution data from dayside passes of the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission to create for the first time a comprehensive listing of encounters with the electron diffusion region.