Publications of M. A. Shay ordered by citations

A list of publications authored or co-authored by M. A. Shay, derived from the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) and ordered by the numbers of citations.

Orcid ID: 0000-0003-1861-4767

284	Electron-scale dynamics of the diffusion region during symmetric magnetic reconnection in space Torbert, R. B., Burch, J. L., Phan, T. D., Hesse, M., Argall, M. R., Shuster, J., Ergun, R. E., Alm, L., Nakamura, R., Genestreti, K. J., Gershman, D. J., Paterson, W. R., Turner, D. L., Cohen, I., Giles, B. L., Pollock, C. J., Wang, S., Chen, L.-J., Stawarz, J. E., Eastwood, J. P., Hwang, K. J., Farrugia, C., Dors, I., Vaith, H., Mouikis, C., Ardakani, A., Mauk, B. H., Fuselier, S. A., Russell, C. T., Strangeway, R. J., Moore, T. E., Drake, J. F., Shay, M. A., Khotyaintsev, Yuri V., Lindqvist, P.-A., Baumjohann, W., Wilder, F. D., Ahmadi, N., Dorelli, J. C., Avanov, L. A., Oka, M., Baker, D. N., Fennell, J. F., Blake, J. B., Jaynes, A. N., Le Contel, O., Petrinec, S. M., Lavraud, B. & Saito, Y., 2018, Science, 362, 1391
110	Parker Solar Probe In Situ Observations of Magnetic Reconnection Exhausts during Encounter 1 Phan, T. D., Bale, S. D., Eastwood, J. P., Lavraud, B., Drake, J. F., Oieroset, M., Shay, M. A., Pulupa, M., Stevens, M., MacDowall, R. J., Case, A. W., Larson, D., Kasper, J., Whittlesey, P., Szabo, A., Korreck, K. E., Bonnell, J. W., de Wit, T. Dudok, Goetz, K., Harvey, P. R., Horbury, T. S., Livi, R., Malaspina, D., Paulson, K., Raouafi, N. E. & Velli, M., 2020, ApJS, 246, 34
108	Properties of the Turbulence Associated with Electron-only Magnetic Reconnection in Earth’s Magnetosheath Stawarz, J. E., Eastwood, J. P., Phan, T. D., Gingell, I. L., Shay, M. A., Burch, J. L., Ergun, R. E., Giles, B. L., Gershman, D. J., Le Contel, O., Lindqvist, P.-A., Russell, C. T., Strangeway, R. J., Torbert, R. B., Argall, M. R., Fischer, D., Magnes, W. & Franci, L., 2019, ApJ, 877, L37
96	Transition from ion-coupled to electron-only reconnection: Basic physics and implications for plasma turbulence Sharma Pyakurel, P., Shay, M. A., Phan, T. D., Matthaeus, W. H., Drake, J. F., TenBarge, J. M., Haggerty, C. C., Klein, K. G., Cassak, P. A., Parashar, T. N., Swisdak, M. & Chasapis, A., 2019, Physics of Plasmas, 26, 082307
64	Turbulence-driven magnetic reconnection and the magnetic correlation length: Observations from Magnetospheric Multiscale in Earth's magnetosheath Stawarz, J. E., Eastwood, J. P., Phan, T. D., Gingell, I. L., Pyakurel, P. S., Shay, M. A., Robertson, S. L., Russell, C. T. & Le Contel, O., 2022, Physics of Plasmas, 29, 012302
58	Incompressive Energy Transfer in the Earth’s Magnetosheath: Magnetospheric Multiscale Observations Bandyopadhyay, Riddhi, Chasapis, A., Chhiber, R., Parashar, T. N., Matthaeus, W. H., Shay, M. A., Maruca, B. A., Burch, J. L., Moore, T. E., Pollock, C. J., Giles, B. L., Paterson, W. R., Dorelli, J., Gershman, D. J., Torbert, R. B., Russell, C. T. & Strangeway, R. J., 2018, ApJ, 866, 106
52	Exploring the statistics of magnetic reconnection X-points in kinetic particle-in-cell turbulence Haggerty, C. C., Parashar, T. N., Matthaeus, W. H., Shay, M. A., Yang, Y., Wan, M., Wu, P. & Servidio, S., 2017, Physics of Plasmas, 24, 102308
51	Drift waves, intense parallel electric fields, and turbulence associated with asymmetric magnetic reconnection at the magnetopause Ergun, R. E., Chen, L.-J., Wilder, F. D., Ahmadi, N., Eriksson, S., Usanova, M. E., Goodrich, K. A., Holmes, J. C., Sturner, A. P., Malaspina, D. M., Newman, D. L., Torbert, R. B., Argall, M. R., Lindqvist, P.-A., Burch, J. L., Webster, J. M., Drake, J. F., Price, L., Cassak, P. A., Swisdak, M., Shay, M. A., Graham, D. B., Strangeway, R. J., Russell, C. T., Giles, B. L., Dorelli, J. C., Gershman, D., Avanov, L., Hesse, M., Lavraud, B., Le Contel, O., Retino, A., Phan, T. D., Goldman, M. V., Stawarz, J. E., Schwartz, S. J., Eastwood, J. P., Hwang, K.-J., Nakamura, R. & Wang, S., 2017, Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 2978
46	Localized Oscillatory Energy Conversion in Magnetopause Reconnection Burch, J. L., Ergun, R. E., Cassak, P. A., Webster, J. M., Torbert, R. B., Giles, B. L., Dorelli, J. C., Rager, A. C., Hwang, K.-J., Phan, T. D., Genestreti, K. J., Allen, R. C., Chen, L.-J., Wang, S., Gershman, D., Le Contel, O., Russell, C. T., Strangeway, R. J., Wilder, F. D., Graham, D. B., Hesse, M., Drake, J. F., Swisdak, M., Price, L. M., Shay, M. A., Lindqvist, P.-A., Pollock, C. J., Denton, R. E. & Newman, D. L., 2018, Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 1237
46	Particle Acceleration in Strong Turbulence in the Earth's Magnetotail Ergun, R. E., Ahmadi, N., Kromyda, L., Schwartz, S. J., Chasapis, A., Hoilijoki, S., Wilder, F. D., Cassak, P. A., Stawarz, J. E., Goodrich, K. A., Turner, D. L., Pucci, F., Pouquet, A., Matthaeus, W. H., Drake, J. F., Hesse, M., Shay, M. A., Torbert, R. B. & Burch, J. L., 2020, ApJ, 898, 153
42	Guide Field Reconnection: Exhaust Structure and Heating Eastwood, J. P., Mistry, R., Phan, T. D., Schwartz, S. J., Ergun, R. E., Drake, J. F., Øieroset, M., Stawarz, J. E., Goldman, M. V., Haggerty, C., Shay, M. A., Burch, J. L., Gershman, D. J., Giles, B. L., Lindqvist, P. A., Torbert, R. B., Strangeway, R. J. & Russell, C. T., 2018, Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 4569
38	Energy dissipation in turbulent reconnection Bandyopadhyay, R., Chasapis, A., Matthaeus, W. H., Parashar, T. N., Haggerty, C. C., Shay, M. A., Gershman, D. J., Giles, B. L. & Burch, J. L., 2021, Physics of Plasmas, 28, 112305
36	MMS Observations of Beta-dependent Constraints on Ion Temperature Anisotropy in Earth’s Magnetosheath Maruca, Bennett A., Chasapis, A., Gary, S. P., Bandyopadhyay, R., Chhiber, R., Parashar, T. N., Matthaeus, W. H., Shay, M. A., Burch, J. L., Moore, T. E., Pollock, C. J., Giles, B. J., Paterson, W. R., Dorelli, J., Gershman, D. J., Torbert, R. B., Russell, C. T. & Strangeway, R. J., 2018, ApJ, 866, 25
35	Turbulent heating due to magnetic reconnection Shay, M. A., Haggerty, C. C., Matthaeus, W. H., Parashar, T. N., Wan, M. & Wu, P., 2018, Physics of Plasmas, 25, 012304
33	Kinetic simulation of asymmetric magnetic reconnection with cold ions Dargent, J., Aunai, N., Lavraud, B., Toledo-Redondo, S., Shay, M. A., Cassak, P. A. & Malakit, K., 2017, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 122, 5290
33	The Effect of a Guide Field on Local Energy Conversion During Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection: Particle-in-Cell Simulations Cassak, P. A., Genestreti, K. J., Burch, J. L., Phan, T.-D., Shay, M. A., Swisdak, M., Drake, J. F., Price, L., Eriksson, S., Ergun, R. E., Anderson, B. J., Merkin, V. G. & Komar, C. M., 2017, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 122, 11,523
30	The reduction of magnetic reconnection outflow jets to sub-Alfvénic speeds Haggerty, Colby C., Shay, Michael A., Chasapis, Alexandros, Phan, Tai D., Drake, James F., Malakit, Kittipat, Cassak, Paul A. & Kieokaew, Rungployphan, 2018, Physics of Plasmas, 25, 102120
30	Energy Flux Densities near the Electron Dissipation Region in Asymmetric Magnetopause Reconnection Eastwood, J. P., Goldman, M. V., Phan, T. D., Stawarz, J. E., Cassak, P. A., Drake, J. F., Newman, D., Lavraud, B., Shay, M. A., Ergun, R. E., Burch, J. L., Gershman, D. J., Giles, B. L., Lindqvist, P. A., Torbert, R. B., Strangeway, R. J. & Russell, C. T., 2020, Physical Review Letters, 125, 265102
28	Reconnection from a turbulence perspective Adhikari, S., Shay, M. A., Parashar, T. N., Pyakurel, P. Sharma, Matthaeus, W. H., Godzieba, D., Stawarz, J. E., Eastwood, J. P. & Dahlin, J. T., 2020, Physics of Plasmas, 27, 042305
28	Energy transfer in reconnection and turbulence Adhikari, S., Parashar, T. N., Shay, M. A., Matthaeus, W. H., Pyakurel, P. S., Fordin, S., Stawarz, J. E. & Eastwood, J. P., 2021, Physical Review E, 104, 065206
27	Strategies for Determining the Cascade Rate in MHD Turbulence: Isotropy, Anisotropy, and Spacecraft Sampling Wang, Yanwen, Chhiber, Rohit, Adhikari, Subash, Yang, Yan, Bandyopadhyay, Riddhi, Shay, Michael A., Oughton, Sean, Matthaeus, William H. & Cuesta, Manuel E., 2022, ApJ, 937, 76
25	Decomposition of plasma kinetic entropy into position and velocity space and the use of kinetic entropy in particle-in-cell simulations Liang, Haoming, Cassak, Paul A., Servidio, Sergio, Shay, Michael A., Drake, James F., Swisdak, Marc, Argall, Matt R., Dorelli, John C., Scime, Earl E., Matthaeus, William H., Roytershteyn, Vadim & Delzanno, Gian Luca, 2019, Physics of Plasmas, 26, 082903
21	Fast magnetic reconnection due to anisotropic electron pressure Cassak, P. A., Baylor, R. N., Fermo, R. L., Beidler, M. T., Shay, M. A., Swisdak, M., Drake, J. F. & Karimabadi, H., 2015, Physics of Plasmas, 22, 020705
19	Magnetospheric Multiscale analysis of intense field-aligned Poynting flux near the Earth's plasma sheet boundary Stawarz, J. E., Eastwood, J. P., Varsani, A., Ergun, R. E., Shay, M. A., Nakamura, R., Phan, T. D., Burch, J. L., Gershman, D. J., Giles, B. L., Goodrich, K. A., Khotyaintsev, Y. V., Lindqvist, P.-A., Russell, C. T., Strangeway, R. J. & Torbert, R. B., 2017, Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 7106
17	Solar Orbiter observations of an ion-scale flux rope confined to a bifurcated solar wind current sheet Eastwood, J. P., Stawarz, J. E., Phan, T. D., Laker, R., Robertson, S., Zhao, L.-L., Zank, G. P., Lavraud, B., Shay, M. A., Evans, V., Angelini, V., O'Brien, H. & Horbury, T. S., 2021, A&A, 656, A27
14	THEMIS multispacecraft observations of a reconnecting magnetosheath current sheet with symmetric boundary conditions and a large guide field Øieroset, M., Phan, T. D., Shay, M. A., Haggerty, C. C., Fujimoto, M., Angelopoulos, V., Eastwood, J. P. & Mozer, F. S., 2017, Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 7598
12	Effect of a guide field on the turbulence like properties of magnetic reconnection Adhikari, S., Shay, M. A., Parashar, T. N., Matthaeus, W. H., Pyakurel, P. S., Stawarz, J. E. & Eastwood, J. P., 2023, Physics of Plasmas, 30, 082904
11	Spatial evolution of magnetic reconnection diffusion region structures with distance from the X-line Øieroset, M., Phan, T. D., Ergun, R., Ahmadi, N., Genestreti, K., Drake, J. F., Liu, Y.-H., Haggerty, C., Eastwood, J. P., Shay, M. A., Pyakurel, P. S., Haaland, S., Oka, M., Goodbred, M., Eriksson, S., Burch, J. L., Torbert, R. B., Khotyaintsev, Y., Russell, C. T., Strangeway, R. J., Gershman, D. J. & Giles, B. L., 2021, Physics of Plasmas, 28, 122901
11	Super-Alfvénic Propagation and Damping of Reconnection Onset Signatures Sharma Pyakurel, P., Shay, M. A., Haggerty, C. C., Parashar, T. N., Drake, J. F., Cassak, P. A. & Gary, S. Peter, 2018, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 123, 341
10	Scaling of Ion Bulk Heating in Magnetic Reconnection Outflows for the High-Alfvén-speed and Low-β Regime in Earth's Magnetotail Øieroset, M., Phan, T. D., Drake, J. F., Starkey, M., Fuselier, S. A., Cohen, I. J., Haggerty, C. C., Shay, M. A., Oka, M., Gershman, D. J., Maheshwari, K., Burch, J. L., Torbert, R. B. & Strangeway, R. J., 2024, ApJ, 971, 144
8	Scale filtering analysis of kinetic reconnection and its associated turbulence Adhikari, Subash, Yang, Yan, Matthaeus, William H., Cassak, Paul A., Parashar, Tulasi N. & Shay, Michael A., 2024, Physics of Plasmas, 31, 020701
8	Simulation Models for Exploring Magnetic Reconnection Shay, Michael, Adhikari, Subash, Beesho, Naoki, Birn, Joachim, Büchner, Jörg, Cassak, Paul, Chen, Li-Jen, Chen, Yuxi, Cozzani, Giulia, Drake, James, Guo, Fan, Hesse, Michael, Jain, Neeraj, Pfau-Kempf, Yann, Lin, Yu, Liu, Yi-Hsin, Oka, Mitsuo, Omelchenko, Yuri, Palmroth, Minna, Pezzi, Oreste, Reiff, Patricia H., Swisdak, Marc, Toffoletto, Frank, Toth, Gabor & Wolf, Richard A., 2025, Space Science Reviews, 221, 81
8	Scaling of Electron Heating by Magnetization During Reconnection and Applications to Dipolarization Fronts and Super-Hot Solar Flares Barbhuiya, M. Hasan, Cassak, P. A., Shay, M. A., Roytershteyn, Vadim, Swisdak, M., Caspi, Amir, Runov, Andrei & Liang, Haoming, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 127, e30610
7	On the Short-scale Spatial Variability of Electron Inflows in Electron-only Magnetic Reconnection in the Turbulent Magnetosheath Observed by MMS Pyakurel, P. S., Phan, T. D., Drake, J. F., Shay, M. A., Øieroset, M., Haggerty, C. C., Stawarz, J., Burch, J. L., Ergun, R. E., Gershman, D. J., Giles, B. L., Torbert, R. B., Strangeway, R. J. & Russell, C. T., 2023, ApJ, 948, 20
7	Alpha Particle Temperature Anisotropy in Earth's Magnetosheath DeWeese, Haley, Maruca, Bennett A., Qudsi, Ramiz A., Chasapis, Alexandros, Pultrone, Mark, Johnson, Elliot, Vines, Sarah K., Shay, Michael A., Matthaeus, William H., Gomez, Roman G., Fuselier, Stephen A., Giles, Barbara L., Gershman, Daniel J., Russell, Christopher T., Strangeway, Robert J., Burch, James L. & Torbert, Roy B., 2022, ApJ, 941, 12
6	Structure of Exhausts in Magnetic Reconnection with an X-line of Finite Extent Shepherd, L. S., Cassak, P. A., Drake, J. F., Gosling, J. T., Phan, T.-D. & Shay, M. A., 2017, ApJ, 848, 90
5	Scaling theory of three-dimensional magnetic reconnection spreading Arencibia, Milton, Cassak, P. A., Shay, M. A. & Priest, E. R., 2021, Physics of Plasmas, 28, 082104
4	Three-Dimensional Magnetic Reconnection Spreading in Current Sheets of Non-Uniform Thickness Arencibia, Milton, Cassak, Paul A., Shay, Michael A., Qiu, Jiong, Petrinec, Steven M. & Liang, Haoming, 2023, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 128, e2022JA030999
4	Scale Separation Effects on Simulations of Plasma Turbulence Edyvean, Jago, Parashar, Tulasi N., Simpson, Tom, Juno, James, Delzanno, Gian Luca, Guo, Fan, Koshkarov, Oleksandr, Matthaeus, William H., Shay, Michael & Yang, Yan, 2024, ApJ, 972, 173
4	Suppression of Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection in the High Ion β, Strong Guide Field Limit Giai, Carlos A., Haggerty, Colby C., Shay, Michael A., Cassak, Paul A. & Davis, Zachary K., 2024, ApJ, 977, 218
3	Identifying the Growth Phase of Magnetic Reconnection Using Pressure-Strain Interaction Barbhuiya, M. Hasan, Cassak, Paul A., Chasapis, Alex, Shay, Michael A., Cozzani, Giulia & Retinò, Alessandro, 2025, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 130, 2024JA033446
3	A Machine Learning-Based Approach to Time-series Wave Identification in the Solar Wind Fordin, Samuel, Shay, Michael, Wilson, Lynn B., III, Maruca, Bennett & Thompson, Barbara J., 2023, ApJ, 949, 40
3	Detection of Large Guide Field Electron-Only Reconnection in a Filamentary Current Sheet Immersed in a Large-Scale Magnetopause Reconnection Exhaust Pyakurel, P. S., Phan, T. D., Øieroset, M., Drake, J. F., Shay, M. A., Mallet, A., Stawarz, J., Wang, S., Oka, M., Genestreti, K. J., Ahmadi, N., Burch, J. L., Torbert, R. B., Ergun, R. E., Gershman, D. J., Giles, B. L. & Strangeway, R. J., 2025, Physical Review Letters, 134, 115201
2	Effects of a Guide Field on the Larmor Electric Field and Upstream Electron Temperature Anisotropy in Collisionless Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection Ek-In, Surapat, Malakit, Kittipat, Ruffolo, David, Shay, Michael A. & Cassak, Paul A., 2017, ApJ, 845, 113
2	The Enhancement of Ion Heating in Kinetic, Antiparallel Reconnection in the Presence of a Flow Shear Haggerty, Colby C., Sikorski, Derek, Shay, Michael A., Phan, Tai D., Cassak, Paul A., Murtas, Giulia & Pyakurel, Prayash S., 2025, ApJ, 995, 156
2	Statistics of pressure fluctuations in turbulent kinetic plasmas Adhikari, S., Matthaeus, W. H., Parashar, T. N., Shay, M. A. & Cassak, P. A., 2023, MNRAS, 526, 4067
1	Kinetic Simulation of Magnetic Reconnection with Pickup Ions: Shell Stability and Reconnection Rate Analysis Pyakurel, P. S., Swisdak, M., Eriksson, S., Shrestha, B. L., Liu, Y.-H., TenBarge, J. M., Shay, M. A. & Phan, T. D., 2025, ApJ, 988, 119
1	Factors controlling the statistics of magnetic reconnection in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence Khan, M. B., Shay, M. A., Oughton, S., Matthaeus, W. H., Haggerty, C. C., Adhikari, S., Cassak, P. A., Fordin, S., O'Donnell, D., Yang, Y., Bandyopadhyay, R. & Roy, S., 2026, Physical Review E, 113, 015207
0	Magnetic Reconnection Energy Fluxes in the Near-Sun Heliospheric Current Sheet as Observed by Parker Solar Probe Eastwood, J. P., Phan, T. D., Drake, J. F., Shay, M. A., Øieroset, M., Fargette, N., Waters, C. L., Lewis, H. C., Badman, S. T., Stevens, M. L., Halekas, J. & Bale, S. D., 2026, ApJ, 996, 140
0	Flow Crossover and Parallel Outflow during Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection Pianpanit, Theerasarn, Malakit, Kittipat, Prapan, Pakkapawn, Ruffolo, David, Pongkitiwanichakul, Peera, Suetrong, Piyawat, Shay, Michael A. & Cassak, Paul A., 2026, Physical Review Letters, 136, 085201
0	Dependence of electron pressure─strain interaction on guide magnetic field for ion coupled magnetic reconnection Adhikari, Subash, Cassak, Paul A., Barbhuiya, M. Hasan, Shay, Michael A., Chasapis, Alexandros, Yang, Yan & Matthaeus, William H., 2025, Physics of Plasmas, 32, 122304