First-authored, refereed papers of Naoki Bessho, ordered by citations

A list of first-authored, refereed publications of Naoki Bessho, derived from the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) and ordered by the numbers of citations.

Orcid ID: 0000-0002-5431-174X

109	Collisionless Reconnection in an Electron-Positron Plasma Bessho, N. & Bhattacharjee, A., 2005, Physical Review Letters, 95, 245001
91	Fast Magnetic Reconnection and Particle Acceleration in Relativistic Low-density Electron-Positron Plasmas without Guide Field Bessho, Naoki & Bhattacharjee, A., 2012, ApJ, 750, 129
79	Electron distribution functions in the diffusion region of asymmetric magnetic reconnection Bessho, N., Chen, L.-J. & Hesse, M., 2016, Geophysical Research Letters, 43, 1828
79	Fast collisionless reconnection in electron-positron plasmasa) Bessho, Naoki & Bhattacharjee, A., 2007, Physics of Plasmas, 14, 056503
65	Electron distribution functions in the electron diffusion region of magnetic reconnection: Physics behind the fine structures Bessho, N., Chen, L.-J., Shuster, J. R. & Wang, S., 2014, Geophysical Research Letters, 41, 8688
58	Electron acceleration to ultrarelativistic energies in a collisionless oblique shock wave Bessho, Naoki & Ohsawa, Yukiharu, 1999, Physics of Plasmas, 6, 3076
41	Magnetic Reconnection in a Quasi-Parallel Shock: Two-Dimensional Local Particle-in-Cell Simulation Bessho, N., Chen, L.-J., Wang, S., Hesse, M. & Wilson, L. B., 2019, Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 9352
37	Instability of the current sheet in the Earth's magnetotail with normal magnetic field Bessho, N. & Bhattacharjee, A., 2014, Physics of Plasmas, 21, 102905
36	Electron acceleration and trapping by an oblique shock wave Bessho, Naoki & Ohsawa, Yukiharu, 2002, Physics of Plasmas, 9, 979
31	Magnetic reconnection and kinetic waves generated in the Earth's quasi-parallel bow shock Bessho, N., Chen, L.-J., Wang, S., Hesse, M., Wilson, L. B., III & Ng, J., 2020, Physics of Plasmas, 27, 092901
27	Strong reconnection electric fields in shock-driven turbulence Bessho, N., Chen, L.-J., Stawarz, J. E., Wang, S., Hesse, M., Wilson, L. B. & Ng, J., 2022, Physics of Plasmas, 29, 042304
25	The effect of reconnection electric field on crescent and U-shaped distribution functions in asymmetric reconnection with no guide field Bessho, N., Chen, L.-J., Hesse, M. & Wang, S., 2017, Physics of Plasmas, 24, 072903
19	Effect of the Reconnection Electric Field on Electron Distribution Functions in the Diffusion Region of Magnetotail Reconnection Bessho, N., Chen, L.-J., Wang, S. & Hesse, M., 2018, Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 12,142
15	Fast magnetic reconnection in low-density electron-positron plasmas Bessho, Naoki & Bhattacharjee, A., 2010, Physics of Plasmas, 17, 102104
14	Electron acceleration by parallel and perpendicular electric fields during magnetic reconnection without guide field Bessho, N., Chen, L.-J., Germaschewski, K. & Bhattacharjee, A., 2015, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 120, 9355
13	Electron Acceleration and Heating during Magnetic Reconnection in the Earth's Quasi-parallel Bow Shock Bessho, N., Chen, L.-J., Hesse, M., Ng, J., Wilson, L. B. & Stawarz, J. E., 2023, ApJ, 954, 25
9	Effects of the guide field on electron distribution functions in the diffusion region of asymmetric reconnection Bessho, N., Chen, L.-J., Wang, S. & Hesse, M., 2019, Physics of Plasmas, 26, 082310
7	Particle-in-cell simulation study of the impact of ion cyclotron waves on auroral kilometric radiation Bessho, N. & Menietti, J. D., 2007, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 112, A10215
7	Production of Ultrarelativistic Electrons by Oblique Magnetosonic Shock Waves Bessho, Naoki, Maruyama, Kentaro & Ohsawa, Yukiharu, 1999, Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 68, 1
2	Electron Acceleration in Magnetic Islands in Quasi-parallel Shocks Bessho, N., Chen, L.-J., Hesse, M., Ng, J., Wilson, L. B., Stawarz, J. E. & Madanian, H., 2024, ApJ, 975, 93
0	Electron Acceleration in Thinning Nonreconnecting Current Sheets in a Quasi-parallel Shock Bessho, N., Chen, L.-J., Hesse, M., Ng, J., Wilson, L. B., III & Stawarz, J. E., 2025, ApJ, 992, 183
0	Effects of Nonresonant Instability and Magnetic Reconnection on Ion Heating and Acceleration in Quasi-parallel Shock Waves Bessho, N., Ng, J., Chen, L.-J., Hesse, M., Wilson, L. B., III & Stawarz, J. E., 2025, ApJ, 992, 77
0	Shock Structures and Electron Energies in Wave and de Hoffmann-Teller Frames Bessho, Naoki, Miyahara, Seiji & Ohsawa, Yukiharu, 2002, Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 71, 2572