4 papers
New Insights on the High Reconnection Rate and the Diminishment of Ion Outflow
Cheng-Yu Fan, Shan Wang, Xu-Zhi Zhou +5
The recently discovered electron-only reconnection has drawn great interests due to abnormal features like lack of ion outflows and high reconnection rates. Using particle-in-cell…
Revisit of discrete energy bands in Galilean moon's footprint tails: remote signals of particle absorption
Fan Yang, Xuzhi-Zhou, Ying Liu +11
Recent observations from the Juno spacecraft during its transit over flux tubes of the Galilean moons have identified sharp enhancements of particle fluxes at discrete energies. Th…
Identification of coupled Landau and anomalous resonances in space plasmas
Jing-Huan Li, Xu-Zhi Zhou, Zhi-Yang Liu +10
Wave-particle resonance, a ubiquitous process in the plasma universe, occurs when resonant particles observe a constant wave phase to enable sustained energy transfer. Here, we pre…
Direct observations of cross-scale energy transfer in space plasmas
Jing-Huan Li, Xu-Zhi Zhou, Zhi-Yang Liu +8
The collisionless plasmas in space and astrophysical environments are intrinsically multiscale in nature, behaving as conducting fluids at macroscales and kinetically at microscale…