Publications – Magnetotail Dipolarizations: Archimedes Force or Ideal Collapse?

Arnold, H., & Sitnov, M. I. (2023). PIC simulations of overstretched ion-scale current sheets in the magnetotail. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL104534. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL104534

Arnold, H., Sorathia, K., Stephens, G., Sitnov, M., Merkin, V.G., & Birn, J. (2023). Data Mining Inspired Localized Resistivity in Global MHD Simulations of the Magnetosphere. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 128, e2022JA030990. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JA030990

Birn, J., Merkin, V. G., Sitnov, M. I., & Hesse, M. (2025). 3-D MHD stability of magnetotail configurations with a B_z hump. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 130, e2024JA033648. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JA033648

Blöcker, A., Kronberg, E. A., Grigorenko, E. E., Roussos, E., & Clark, G. (2023). Dipolarization Fronts in the Jovian Magnetotail: Statistical Survey of Ion Intensity Variations Using Juno Observations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 128, e2023JA031312. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JA031312

Hosner, M., Nakamura, R., Schmid, D., Nakamura, T. K. M., Panov, E. V., Volwerk, M., et al. (2024). Reconnection inside a dipolarization front of a diverging Earthward fast flow. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 129, e2023JA031976. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JA031976

Motoba, T., Sitnov, M. I., Stephens, G. K., & Gershman, D. J. (2022). A new perspective on magnetotail electron and ion divergent flows: MMS observations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 127, e2022JA030514. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JA030514

Nishimura, Y., Artemyev, A. V., Lyons, L. R., Gabrielse, C., Donovan, E. F., & Angelopoulos, V. (2022). Space-ground observations of dynamics of substorm onset beads. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 127, e2021JA030004. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JA030004

Nishimura, Y., Lyons, L. R., Gabrielse, C.,Donovan, E. F., & Angelopoulos, V.(2025). Transition between substorm auroral onset and expansion phase activity.Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 130, e2025JA033770. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JA033770

Panov, E. V., Lu, S., & Pritchett, P. L. (2022). Magnetotail ion structuring by kinetic ballooning-interchange instability. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2021GL096796. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL096796

Panov, E.V., Kubyshkina, M.V., Sergeev, V.A. et al. Are there ballooning-interchange heads in the midtail?. Earth Planets Space 77, 152 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-025-02285-8

Richard, L., Khotyaintsev, Y. V., Graham, D. B., & Russell, C. T. (2022). Are dipolarization fronts a typical feature of magnetotail plasma jets fronts? Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2022GL101693. https//doi.org/10.1029/2022GL101693

Richard, L., Khotyaintsev, Yu. V., Graham, D. B., Vaivads, A., Nikoukar, R., Cohen, I. J., et al. (2022). Proton and helium ion acceleration at magnetotail plasma jets. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 127, e2022JA030430. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JA030430

Sergeev, V. A., Sun, W., Yang, J., & Panov, E. V. (2021). Manifestations of magnetotail flow channels in energetic particle signatures at low-altitude orbit. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL093543. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL093543

Sitnov, M. I., & Arnold, H. (2022). Equilibrium kinetic theory of weakly anisotropic embedded thin current sheets. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 127, e2022JA030945. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JA030945

Stephens, G. K., Sitnov, M. I., Weigel, R. S., Turner, D. L., Tsyganenko, N. A., Rogers, A. J., et al. (2023). Global structure of magnetotail reconnection revealed by mining space magnetometer data. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 128, e2022JA031066. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JA031066

Wang, W., Yang, J., Toffoletto, F. R., Wolf, R. A., Nakamura, R., & Cui, J. (2022). Current sheet thinning in the wake of a bubble injection. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2022GL100737. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100737