Michael Hesse

TL;DR: In this paper, a simple Harris sheet configuration with a specified set of initial conditions, including a finite amplitude, magnetic island perturbation to trigger the dynamics of magnetic reconnection is studied.

TL;DR: For example, NASA's magnetospheric multiscale (MMS) mission has found direct evidence for electron demagnetization and acceleration at sites along the sunward boundary of Earth's magnetosphere where the interplanetary magnetic field reconnects with the terrestrial magnetic field as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors considered the concept of magnetic reconnection from a general point of view, with special consideration given to magnetic reconnections in nonvanishing magnetic fields, and showed that the electric field component parallel to the magnetic field plays a crucial physical role in finite-B reconnection.

TL;DR: In this paper, the structure of the dissipation region in collisionless magnetic reconnection is investigated by means of kinetic particle-in-cell simulations and analytical theory, and the scale lengths of these processes are best organized by the trapping length of bouncing electrons in a field reversal region.

TL;DR: In this paper, the theoretical background of magnetic reconnection including systems where the magnetic field does not vanish (general magnetic reconnections) is discussed and a critical review of the concept of magnetic merging is given, and it is shown that in certain situations there may be ideal plasma flow across a separatrix which does not involve nonideal effects.