First-authored, refereed papers of Naoki Bessho

A list of first-authored, refereed publications of Naoki Bessho, derived from the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS). The number in brackets after each title indicates the number of citations that the paper has received.

Orcid ID: 0000-0002-5431-174X

List of publications ordered by citations
Number of papers: 23
No. of citations: 764

2025

1. Electron Acceleration in Thinning Nonreconnecting Current Sheets in a Quasi-parallel Shock [0]
   Bessho, N., Chen, L.-J., Hesse, M., Ng, J., Wilson, L. B., III & Stawarz, J. E., ApJ, 992, 183
2. Effects of Nonresonant Instability and Magnetic Reconnection on Ion Heating and Acceleration in Quasi-parallel Shock Waves [0]
   Bessho, N., Ng, J., Chen, L.-J., Hesse, M., Wilson, L. B., III & Stawarz, J. E., ApJ, 992, 77

2024

1. Electron Acceleration in Magnetic Islands in Quasi-parallel Shocks [2]
   Bessho, N., Chen, L.-J., Hesse, M., Ng, J., Wilson, L. B., Stawarz, J. E. & Madanian, H., ApJ, 975, 93

2023

1. Electron Acceleration and Heating during Magnetic Reconnection in the Earth's Quasi-parallel Bow Shock [13]
   Bessho, N., Chen, L.-J., Hesse, M., Ng, J., Wilson, L. B. & Stawarz, J. E., ApJ, 954, 25

2022

1. Strong reconnection electric fields in shock-driven turbulence [27]
   Bessho, N., Chen, L.-J., Stawarz, J. E., Wang, S., Hesse, M., Wilson, L. B. & Ng, J., Physics of Plasmas, 29, 042304

2020

1. Magnetic reconnection and kinetic waves generated in the Earth's quasi-parallel bow shock [31]
   Bessho, N., Chen, L.-J., Wang, S., Hesse, M., Wilson, L. B., III & Ng, J., Physics of Plasmas, 27, 092901

2019

1. Effects of the guide field on electron distribution functions in the diffusion region of asymmetric reconnection [9]
   Bessho, N., Chen, L.-J., Wang, S. & Hesse, M., Physics of Plasmas, 26, 082310
2. Magnetic Reconnection in a Quasi-Parallel Shock: Two-Dimensional Local Particle-in-Cell Simulation [41]
   Bessho, N., Chen, L.-J., Wang, S., Hesse, M. & Wilson, L. B., Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 9352

2018

1. Effect of the Reconnection Electric Field on Electron Distribution Functions in the Diffusion Region of Magnetotail Reconnection [19]
   Bessho, N., Chen, L.-J., Wang, S. & Hesse, M., Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 12,142

2017

1. The effect of reconnection electric field on crescent and U-shaped distribution functions in asymmetric reconnection with no guide field [25]
   Bessho, N., Chen, L.-J., Hesse, M. & Wang, S., Physics of Plasmas, 24, 072903

2016

1. Electron distribution functions in the diffusion region of asymmetric magnetic reconnection [79]
   Bessho, N., Chen, L.-J. & Hesse, M., Geophysical Research Letters, 43, 1828

2015

1. Electron acceleration by parallel and perpendicular electric fields during magnetic reconnection without guide field [14]
   Bessho, N., Chen, L.-J., Germaschewski, K. & Bhattacharjee, A., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 120, 9355

2014

1. Instability of the current sheet in the Earth's magnetotail with normal magnetic field [37]
   Bessho, N. & Bhattacharjee, A., Physics of Plasmas, 21, 102905
2. Electron distribution functions in the electron diffusion region of magnetic reconnection: Physics behind the fine structures [65]
   Bessho, N., Chen, L.-J., Shuster, J. R. & Wang, S., Geophysical Research Letters, 41, 8688

2012

1. Fast Magnetic Reconnection and Particle Acceleration in Relativistic Low-density Electron-Positron Plasmas without Guide Field [91]
   Bessho, Naoki & Bhattacharjee, A., ApJ, 750, 129

2010

1. Fast magnetic reconnection in low-density electron-positron plasmas [15]
   Bessho, Naoki & Bhattacharjee, A., Physics of Plasmas, 17, 102104

2007

1. Particle-in-cell simulation study of the impact of ion cyclotron waves on auroral kilometric radiation [7]
   Bessho, N. & Menietti, J. D., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 112, A10215
2. Fast collisionless reconnection in electron-positron plasmasa) [79]
   Bessho, Naoki & Bhattacharjee, A., Physics of Plasmas, 14, 056503

2005

1. Collisionless Reconnection in an Electron-Positron Plasma [109]
   Bessho, N. & Bhattacharjee, A., Physical Review Letters, 95, 245001

2002

1. Electron acceleration and trapping by an oblique shock wave [36]
   Bessho, Naoki & Ohsawa, Yukiharu, Physics of Plasmas, 9, 979
2. Shock Structures and Electron Energies in Wave and de Hoffmann-Teller Frames [0]
   Bessho, Naoki, Miyahara, Seiji & Ohsawa, Yukiharu, Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 71, 2572

1999

1. Electron acceleration to ultrarelativistic energies in a collisionless oblique shock wave [58]
   Bessho, Naoki & Ohsawa, Yukiharu, Physics of Plasmas, 6, 3076
2. Production of Ultrarelativistic Electrons by Oblique Magnetosonic Shock Waves [7]
   Bessho, Naoki, Maruyama, Kentaro & Ohsawa, Yukiharu, Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 68, 1