P. A. Puhl-Quinn

TL;DR: In this article, the first evidence of the link between energetic electrons and magnetic islands during reconnection in the Earth's magnetosphere was reported, which suggests that energetic electron fluxes peak at sites of compressed density within islands, which imposes a new constraint on theories of electron acceleration.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used vector measurements of the electron drift velocity made by the EDI on Cluster between February 2001 and March 2006 to derive statistical maps of the high-latitude plasma convection.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present coordinated ground satellite observations of solar wind compression-related dayside electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves from 25 September 2005, which suggest that generation of the EMIC waves and consequent loss of energetic protons may last for several hours while the magnetosphere remains compressed.

TL;DR: In this article, a spatially extended electron current sheet (ECS) and its adjacent magnetic island were identified during a magnetotail reconnection event with no appreciable guide field, based on data from the four Cluster spacecraft and is enabled by detailed maps of electron distribution functions and DC electric fields within the diffusion region.

TL;DR: In this article, an extensive statistical study of cold ion outflows in the geomagnetic tail at geocentric distances from 5 to 19 RE using the Cluster spacecraft during the period from 2001 to 2005 is presented.