Publications

2015

Artemyev, A.V., A.A. Petrukovich, R. Nakamura, and L.M. Zelenyi: Statistics of intense dawn-dusk currents in the Earth’s magnetotail, J.Geophys.Res. Space Physics, 120,3804–3820,doi:10.1002/2015JA021046 (2015a)

Artemyev, A.V., A.A. Petrukovich, R. Nakamura, and L.M. Zelenyi: Two-dimensional configuration of the magnetotail currentsheet: THEMIS observations, Geophys.Res.Lett., 42, 3662–3667, doi:10.1002/2015GL063994 (2015b)

Teh, W.L., T.K.M. Nakamura, R. Nakamura, W. Baumjohann, and M. Abdullah: On the evolution of a magnetic flux rope: Two-dimensional MHD simulation results, J.Geophys.Res. SpacePhysics, 120, 8547–8558, doi:10.1002/2015JA021619 (2015)

2016

Andriopoulou, M., R. Nakamura, K. Torkar, W. Baumjohann, R.B. Torbert, P.-A. Lindqvist, Y.V. Khotyaintsev, J. Dorelli, J.L. Burch, C.T. Russell: Study of the spacecraft potential under active control and plasma density estimates during the MMS commissioning phase, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 4858-4864, doi:10.1002/2016GL068529 (2016)

*) Nakamura, R., V.A. Sergeev, W. Baumjohann, F. Plaschke, W. Magnes, D. Fischer, A. Varsani, D. Schmid, T.K.M. Nakamura, C.T. Russell, R.J. Strangeway, H.K. Leinweber, G. Le, K.R. Bromund, C.J. Pollock, B.L. Giles, J.C. Dorelli, D.J. Gershman, W. Paterson, L.A. Avanov, S.A. Fuselier, K. Genestreti, J.L. Burch, R.B. Torbert, M. Chutter, M.R. Argall, B.J. Anderson, P.-A. Lindqvist, G.T. Marklund, Y.V. Khotyaintsev, B.H. Mauk, I.J. Cohen, D.N. Baker, A.N. Jaynes, R.E. Ergun, H.J. Singer, J.A. Slavin, E.L. Kepko, T.E. Moore, B. Lavraud, V. Coffey, Y. Saito: Transient, small-scale field-aligned currents in the plasma sheet boundary layer during storm time substorms, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 4841-4849, doi:10.1002/2016GL068768 (2016)

Nakamura, T.K.M., R. Nakamura, H. Hasegawa: Spatial dimensions of the electron diffusion region in anti-parallel magnetic reconnection, Ann. Geophys., 34, 357-367, doi:10.5194/angeo-34-357-2016 (2016a)

Nakamura, T.K.M., R. Nakamura, Y. Narita, W. Baumjohann, W. Daughton: Multi-scale structures of turbulent magnetic reconnection, Phys. Plasmas, 23, 052116, doi:10.1063/1.4951025 (2016b)

Nakamura, T.K.M., R. Nakamura, W. Baumjohann, T. Umeda, I. Shinohara: Three-dimensional development of front region of plasma jets generated by magnetic reconnection, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 8356-8364, doi:10.1002/2016GL070215 (2016c)

*) Panov, E.V., W. Baumjohann, R.A. Wolf, R. Nakamura, V. Angelopoulos, J.M. Weygand, M.V. Kubyshkina: Magnetotail energy dissipation during an auroral substorm, Nat. Phys., 12, 1158-1163, doi:10.1038/NPHYS3879 (2016)

*) Plaschke, F., H. Hietala, V. Angelopoulos, R. Nakamura: Geoeffective jets impacting the magnetopause are very common, J. Geophys. Res., 121, 3240-3253, doi:10.1002/2016JA022534 (2016)

Yushkov, E.V., A.V. Artemyev, A.A. Petrukovich, R. Nakamura: Current sheet flapping in the near-Earth magnetotail: Peculiarities of propagation and parallel currents, Ann. Geophys., 34, 739-750, doi:10.5194/angeo-34-739-2016 (2016)

Zelenyi, L.M., A.G. Frank, A.V. Artemyev, A.A. Petrukovich, R. Nakamura: Formation of sub-ion scale filamentary force-free structures in the vicinity of reconnection region, Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion, 58, 054002, doi:10.1088/0741-3335/58/5/054002 (2016)

2017

Eastwood, J.P., R. Nakamura, L. Turc, L. Mejnertsen, M. Hesse: The scientific foundations of forecasting magnetospheric space weather,Space Sci. Rev., 212, 1221-1252, doi:10.1007/s11214-017-0399-8 (2017)

Nakamura, R., T. Nagai, J. Birn, V.A. Sergeev, O. Le Contel, A. Varsani, W. Baumjohann, T.K.M. Nakamura, S. Apatenkov, A. Artemyev, R.E. Ergun, S.A. Fuselier, D.J. Gershman, B.J. Giles, Yu.V. Khotyaintsev, P.-A. Lindqvist, W. Magnes, B. Mauk, C.T. Russell, H.J. Singer, J. Stawarz, R.J. Strangeway, B. Anderson, K.R. Bromund, D. Fischer, L. Kepko, G. Le, F. Plaschke, J.A. Slavin, I. Cohen, A. Jaynes, D.L. Turner: Near-Earth plasma sheet boundary dynamics during substorm dipolarization.Earth Planets Space, 69, 129, 2017 doi:10.1186/s40623-017-0707-2 (2017)

Nakamura, T.K.M., H. Hasegawa, W. Daughton, S. Eriksson, W.Y. Li, R. Nakamura: Turbulent mass transfer caused by vortex induced reconnection in collisionless magnetospheric plasmas, Nat. Comm., 8, 1582, doi:10.1038/s41467-017-01579-0 (2017a)

Nakamura, T.K.M., S. Eriksson, H. Hasegawa, S. Zenitani, W.Y. Li, K.J. Genestreti, R. Nakamura, W. Daughton: Mass and energy transfer across the Earth’s magnetopause caused by vortex-induced reconnection, J. Geophys. Res., 122, 11505-11522, doi:10.1002/2017JA024346 (2017b)

*) Varsani, A., R. Nakamura, V.A. Sergeev, W. Baumjohann, C.J. Owen, A.A. Petrukovich, Z. Yao, T.K.M. Nakamura, M.V. Kubyshkina, T. Sotirelis, J.L. Burch, K.J. Genestreti, Z. Vörös, M. Andriopoulou, D.J. Gershman, L.A. Avanov , W. Magnes , C.T. Russell, F. Plaschke, Y.V. Khotyaintsev, B.L. Giles, V.N. Coffey, J.C. Dorelli, R.J. Strangeway, R.B. Torbert, P.-A. Lindqvist, R. Ergun: Simultaneous remote observations of intense reconnection effects by DMSP and MMS spacecraft during a storm time substorm, J. Geophys. Res., 122, 10891-10909, doi:10.1002/2017JA024547 (2017)

Wang, R., R. Nakamura, Q. Lu, W. Baumjohann, R.E. Ergun, J.L. Burch, M. Volwerk, A. Varsani, T. Nakamura, W. Gonzalez, B. Giles, D. Gershman, S. Wang: Electron-scale quadrants of the Hall magnetic field observed by the Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft during asymmetric reconnection, Phys. Rev. Lett., 118, 175101, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.175101 (2017)

Wang, R., Q. Lu, R. Nakamura, W. Baumjohann, C.T. Russell, J.L. Burch, R.E. Ergun, P.A. Lindqvist, S. Wang, B. Giles, D. Gershman: Interaction of magnetic flux ropes via magnetic reconnection observed at the magnetopause, J. Geophys. Res., 122, 10436-10447, doi:10.1002/2017JA024482 (2017)

Yushkov, E., A. Petrukovich, A. Artemyev, R. Nakamura: Relationship between electron field-aligned anisotropy and dawn-dusk magnetic field: Nine years of Cluster observations in the Earth magnetotail, J. Geophys. Res., 122, 9294-9305, doi:10.1002/2016JA023739 (2017)

2018

Andriopoulou, M., R. Nakamura, S. Wellenzohn, K. Torkar, W. Baumjohann, R.B. Torbert, P.-A. Lindqvist, Yu.V. Khotyaintsev, J. Dorelli, J.L. Burch: Plasma density estimates from spacecraft potential using MMS observations in the dayside magnetosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 123, 2620-2629, doi:10.1002/2017JA025086 (2018)

Artemyev, A.V., P.L. Pritchett, V. Angelopoulos, X.-J. Zhang, R. Nakamura, S. Lu, A. Runov, S.A. Fuselier, S. Wellenzohn, F. Plaschke, C.T. Russell, R.J. Strangeway, P.-A. Lindqvist, R.E. Ergun: Field-aligned currents originating from the magnetic reconnection region: Conjugate MMS-ARTEMIS observations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 45, 5836-5844, doi:10.1029/2018GL078206 (2018)

*) Genestreti, K.J., T.K.M. Nakamura, R. Nakamura, R.E. Denton, R.B. Torbert, J.L. Burch, F. Plaschke, S.A. Fuselier, R.E. Ergun, B.L. Giles, C.T. Russell: How accurately can we measure the reconnection rate E_M for the MMS diffusion region event of 11 July 2017?, J. Geophys. Res., 123, 9130-9149, doi:10.1029/2018JA025711 (2018)

*) Nakamura, R., Varsani, A., Genestreti, K. J., Le Contel, O., Nakamura, T., Baumjohann, W., et al.: Multiscale currents observed by MMS in the flow braking region. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 123, 1260, doi.org/10.1002/2017JA024686 (2018)

*) Nakamura, T.K.M., K.J. Genestreti, Y.-H. Liu, R. Nakamura, W.-L. Teh, H. Hasegawa, W. Daughton, M. Hesse, R.B. Torbert, J.L. Burch, B.L. Giles: Measurement of the magnetic reconnection rate in the Earth’s magnetotail, J. Geophys. Res., 123, 9150-9168, doi: 10.1029/2018JA025713 (2018a)

*) Nakamura, T.K.M., R. Nakamura, A. Varsani, K.J. Genestreti, W. Baumjohann, Y.-H. Liu: Remote sensing of the reconnection electric field from in situ multipoint observations of the separatrix boundary, Geophys. Res. Lett., 45, 3829-3837, doi:10.1029/2018GL078340 (2018b)

Teh, W.-L., T.K.M. Nakamura, R. Nakamura, T. Umeda: Oblique ion-scale magnetotail flux ropes generated by secondary tearing modes, J. Geophys. Res., 123, 8122-8130, doi:10.1029/2018JA025775 (2018)

Wang, R., Q. Lu, R. Nakamura, W. Baumjohann, C. Huang, C.T. Russell, J.L. Burch, C.J. Pollock, D. Gershman, R.E. Ergun, S. Wang, P.A. Lindqvist, B. Giles: An electron-scale current sheet without bursty reconnection signatures observed in the near-Earth tail, Geophys. Res. Lett., 45, 4542-4549, doi:10.1002/2017GL076330 (2018)

Yushkov, E.V., A.G. Frank, A.V. Artemyev, A.A. Petrukovich, R. Nakamura: Hall effect in laboratory and space current sheets, Plasma Phys. Rep., 44, 1126-1134, doi:10.1134/S1063780X18120085 (2018)

2019

Hasegawa, H., R.E. Denton, R. Nakamura, K.J. Genestreti, T.K.M. Nakamura, K.-J. Hwang, T.D. Phan, R.B. Torbert, J.L. Burch, B.L. Giles, D.J. Gershman, C.T. Russell, R.J. Strangeway, P.-A. Lindqvist, Y.V. Khotyaintsev, R.E. Ergun, N. Kitamura, Y. Saito: Reconstruction of the electron diffusion region of magnetotail reconnection seen by the MMS spacecraft on 11 July 2017, J. Geophys. Res., 124, 122-138, doi:10.1029/2018JA026051 (2019)

Holmes, J.C., R.E. Ergun, R. Nakamura, O. Roberts, F.D. Wilder, D.L. Newman: Structure of electron-scale plasma mixing along the dayside reconnection separatrix, J. Geophys. Res., 124, 8788–8803, doi:10.1029/2019JA026974 (2019)

*) Nakamura, R., K.J. Genestreti, T.K.M. Nakamura, W. Baumjohann, A. Varsani, T. Nagai, N. Bessho, J.L. Burch, R.E. Denton, J.P. Eastwood, R.E. Ergun, D.J. Gershman, B.L. Giles, H. Hasegawa, M. Hesse, P.‐A. Lindqvist, C.T. Russell, J.E. Stawarz, R.J. Strangeway, R.B. Torbert: Structure of the current sheet in the 11 July 2017 electron diffusion region event, J. Geophys. Res., 124, 1173-1186, doi:10.1029/2018JA026028 (2019)

*) Nakamura, T.K.M., T. Umeda, R. Nakamura, H.S. Fu, M. Oka: Disturbance of the front region of magnetic reconnection outflow jets due to the lower-hybrid drift instability, Phys. Rev. Lett., 123, 235101, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.235101 (2019)

Roberts, O.W., Y. Narita, R. Nakamura, Z. Vörös, D. Gershman: Anisotropy of the spectral index in ion scale compressible turbulence: MMS observations in the magnetosheath, Front. Physics, 7, 184, doi:10.3389/fphy.2019.00184 (2019)

Panov, E.V., W. Baumjohann, R. Nakamura, J.M. Weygand, B.L. Giles, C.T. Russel, G. Reeves, M.V. Kubyshkina: Continent-wide R1/R2 current system and Ohmic losses by broad dipolarization-injection fronts, J. Geophys. Res., 124, 4064-4082, doi:10.1029/2019JA026521 (2019)

Panov, E.V., W. Baumjohann, R. Nakamura, P.L. Pritchett, J.M. Weygand, M.V. Kubyshkina: Ionospheric footprints of detached magnetotail interchange heads, Geophys. Res. Lett., 46, 7237-7247, doi:10.1029/2019GL083070 (2019)

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