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M. A. Shay

University of Delaware · US
Area of research
Astronomy and Astrophysics · Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Research interest
Research interests include Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics, Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics, Magnetic confinement fusion research, and Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies.
h-index
61
citations
15,904
works
371
NIH funding
primary concept
email

Recent publications

Simulation Models for Exploring Magnetic Reconnection
Space Science Reviews 2025cited by 4position: firstdoi
Turbulence-driven magnetic reconnection and the magnetic correlation length: Observations from Magnetospheric Multiscale in Earth's magnetosheath
Physics of Plasmas 2022cited by 71position: middledoi
Relativistic Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection
Physical Review Letters 2022cited by 18position: middledoi
MagneToRE: Mapping the 3-D Magnetic Structure of the Solar Wind Using a Large Constellation of Nanosatellites
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences 2021cited by 28position: middledoi
Properties of the Turbulence Associated with Electron-only Magnetic Reconnection in Earth’s Magnetosheath
The Astrophysical Journal Letters 2019cited by 130position: middledoi
Electron magnetic reconnection without ion coupling in Earth’s turbulent magnetosheath
Nature 2018cited by 388position: middledoi
Electron-scale dynamics of the diffusion region during symmetric magnetic reconnection in space
Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) 2018cited by 126position: middle
Guide Field Reconnection: Exhaust Structure and Heating
Geophysical Research Letters 2018cited by 51position: middledoi
Drift waves, intense parallel electric fields, and turbulence associated with asymmetric magnetic reconnection at the magnetopause
Geophysical Research Letters 2017cited by 61position: middledoi
Electron-scale measurements of magnetic reconnection in space
Science 2016cited by 719position: middledoi
MMS observations of electron‐scale filamentary currents in the reconnection exhaust and near the X line
Geophysical Research Letters 2016cited by 128position: middledoi
Ion‐scale secondary flux ropes generated by magnetopause reconnection as resolved by MMS
Geophysical Research Letters 2016cited by 116position: middledoi
MMS observations of large guide field symmetric reconnection between colliding reconnection jets at the center of a magnetic flux rope at the magnetopause
Geophysical Research Letters 2016cited by 113position: middledoi
Magnetospheric Multiscale Observations of the Electron Diffusion Region of Large Guide Field Magnetic Reconnection
Physical Review Letters 2016cited by 100position: middledoi
Magnetospheric Multiscale observations of large‐amplitude, parallel, electrostatic waves associated with magnetic reconnection at the magnetopause
Geophysical Research Letters 2016cited by 83position: middledoi
Magnetospheric Multiscale Satellites Observations of Parallel Electric Fields Associated with Magnetic Reconnection
Physical Review Letters 2016cited by 74position: middledoi
Ion bulk heating in magnetic reconnection exhausts at Earth's magnetopause: Dependence on the inflow Alfvén speed and magnetic shear angle
Geophysical Research Letters 2014cited by 104position: middledoi
Coherent structures, intermittent turbulence, and dissipation in high-temperature plasmas
Physics of Plasmas 2013cited by 346position: middledoi
INTERMITTENT HEATING IN SOLAR WIND AND KINETIC SIMULATIONS
The Astrophysical Journal Letters 2013cited by 156position: middledoi
Electron bulk heating in magnetic reconnection at Earth's magnetopause: Dependence on the inflow Alfvén speed and magnetic shear
Geophysical Research Letters 2013cited by 139position: middledoi
Intermittent Dissipation at Kinetic Scales in Collisionless Plasma Turbulence
Physical Review Letters 2012cited by 189position: middledoi

Grants

Renovation and Consolidation of Space for the Communications, Telemetry and Electro-Optics Research Program
NSF9414969$1,300,0001995–2001PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

T. D. Phan · University of California, Berkeley5 papers (2013–2022)J. P. Eastwood · Department of Space5 papers (2013–2022)J. F. Drake · University of Central Florida4 papers (2013–2025)W. H. Matthaeus · University of Delaware4 papers (2012–2021)Minping Wan · Southern University of Science and Technology3 papers (2012–2013)P. Wu · Beijing Normal University3 papers (2012–2013)J. E. Stawarz · Northumbria University3 papers (2018–2022)S. C. Chapman · University of Warwick3 papers (2012–2013)C. T. Russell · University of California, Los Angeles3 papers (2018–2022)H. Karimabadi · SensorMetrix (United States)3 papers (2012–2013)M. Øieroset · University of California, Berkeley3 papers (2013–2018)O. Le Contel · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique2 papers (2019–2022)V. Angelopoulos · Planetary Science Institute2 papers (2013–2014)R. J. Strangeway · Planetary Science Institute2 papers (2018–2019)Colby Haggerty · University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa2 papers (2018–2022)D. J. Gershman · University of Maryland, College Park2 papers (2018–2019)B. L. Giles · Goddard Space Flight Center2 papers (2018–2019)V. Roytershteyn · Space Science Institute2 papers (2012–2013)W. Daughton · Los Alamos National Laboratory2 papers (2012–2013)M. Fujimoto · Goddard Space Flight Center2 papers (2013–2014)