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Paul Cassak
Researcher at West Virginia University
Publications - 188
Citations - 8208
Paul Cassak is an academic researcher from West Virginia University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Magnetic reconnection & Magnetopause. The author has an hindex of 45, co-authored 174 publications receiving 6843 citations. Previous affiliations of Paul Cassak include University of Maryland, College Park & University of Arizona.
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Electron-scale measurements of magnetic reconnection in space.
James L. Burch,Roy B. Torbert,Roy B. Torbert,Tai Phan,L. J Chen,T. E. Moore,Robert E. Ergun,Jonathan Eastwood,Daniel J. Gershman,Paul Cassak,Matthew R. Argall,Shan Wang,Michael Hesse,Craig J. Pollock,Barbara L. Giles,Rumi Nakamura,Barry Mauk,Stephen A. Fuselier,Christopher T. Russell,Robert J. Strangeway,James Drake,Michael Shay,Yu. V. Khotyaintsev,Per-Arne Lindqvist,Göran Marklund,Frederick Wilder,D. T. Young,Klaus Torkar,Jerry Goldstein,John C. Dorelli,Levon A. Avanov,Mitsuo Oka,Daniel N. Baker,Allison Jaynes,K. A. Goodrich,Ian J. Cohen,Drew Turner,J. F. Fennell,J. B. Blake,J. H. Clemmons,Martin V. Goldman,David Newman,S. M. Petrinec,K. J. Trattner,Benoit Lavraud,Patricia H. Reiff,Wolfgang Baumjohann,Werner Magnes,M. Steller,W. S. Lewis,Yoshifumi Saito,Victoria N. Coffey,Michael O. Chandler +52 more
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.
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Scaling of asymmetric magnetic reconnection: General theory and collisional simulations
Paul Cassak,Michael Shay +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a Sweet-Parker-type scaling analysis for asymmetric antiparallel reconnection (in which the reconnecting magnetic field strengths and plasma densities are different on opposite sides of the dissipation region) is performed.
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Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection: General Theory and Collisional Simulations
Paul Cassak,Michael Shay +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a Sweet-Parker-type scaling analysis for asymmetric antiparallel reconnection (in which the reconnecting magnetic field strengths and plasma densities are different on opposite sides of the dissipation region) is performed.
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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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Magnetic reconnection in two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence.
TL;DR: Systematic analysis of numerical simulations of two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence reveals the presence of a large number of X-type neutral points where magnetic reconnection occurs, and examines the statistical properties of this ensemble of reconnection events that are spontaneously generated by turbulence.