Roy Torbert
University of New Hampshire
25 Papers
63 Citations
Roy Torbert is an academic researcher from University of New Hampshire. The author has contributed to research in topics: Magnetic reconnection & Magnetopause. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 25 publications. Previous affiliations of Roy Torbert include Southwest Research Institute.
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Papers
Electrostatic solitary waves in current layers: from Cluster observations during a super-substorm to beam experiments at the LAPD
Jolene S. Pickett,Li-Jen Chen,Ondrej Santolik,Ondrej Santolik,S. Grimald,Benoit Lavraud,Benoit Lavraud,Olga P. Verkhoglyadova,Olga P. Verkhoglyadova,Bruce T. Tsurutani,Bertrand Lefebvre,Andrew Fazakerley,Gurbax S. Lakhina,S. S. Ghosh,Benjamin Grison,Benjamin Grison,Pierrette Décréau,D. A. Gurnett,Roy Torbert,Nicole Cornilleau-Wehrlin,Iannis Dandouras,Iannis Dandouras,E. A. Lucek +22 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the first observations of Electrostatic Solitary Waves (ESWs) associated with the onset of a super-substorm that occurred on 24 August 2005 while the Cluster spacecraft were located in the magnetotail at around 18-19 RE and moving northward from the plasma sheet to the lobes.
The two-fluid dynamics and energetics of the asymmetric magnetic reconnection in laboratory and space plasmas.
Masaaki Yamada,L. J. Chen,Jongsoo Yoo,Shan Wang,William Fox,Jonathan Jara-Almonte,Hantao Ji,William Daughton,Ari Le,James L. Burch,Barbara L. Giles,Michael Hesse,Thomas E. Moore,Roy Torbert +13 more
TL;DR: The present comparative study identifies the robust two-fluid mechanism operating in systems over six orders of magnitude in spatial scales and over a wide range of collisionality.
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Cold Ionospheric Ions in the Magnetic Reconnection Outflow Region
Wenya Li,Mats André,Yuri V. Khotyaintsev,Andris Vaivads,S. A. Fuselier,Daniel B. Graham,Sergio Toledo-Redondo,Benoit Lavraud,Benoit Lavraud,Drew Turner,Cecilia Norgren,Cecilia Norgren,Binbin Tang,Cunguo Wang,Per-Arne Lindqvist,D. T. Young,Michael O. Chandler,Barbara L. Giles,Craig J. Pollock,Robert E. Ergun,Christopher T. Russell,Roy Torbert,Thomas E. Moore,James L. Burch +23 more
TL;DR: In this article, cold plasma that originated from the ionosphere can be used to determine properties of asymmetric magnetic reconnection at the subsolar region of Earth's magnetopause.
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Statistical Survey of Collisionless Dissipation in the Terrestrial Magnetosheath
Yanwen Wang,Riddhi Bandyopadhyay,Rohit Chhiber,Rohit Chhiber,William H. Matthaeus,Alexandros Chasapis,Yan Yang,Frederick Wilder,Daniel J. Gershman,Barbara L. Giles,Craig J. Pollock,John C. Dorelli,Christopher T. Russell,Robert J. Strangeway,Roy Torbert,Thomas E. Moore,James L. Burch +16 more
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