Publications
  1. Parashar, T. N., M. A. Shay, P. A. Cassak, and W. H. Matthaeus, Kinetic dissipation and anisotropic heating in a turbulent collisionless plasma, Physics Review Letters, Submitted, 2008.
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  2. Drake, J. F., M. A. Shay, and M. Swisdak, The Hall fields and fast magnetic reconnection, Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 15, 042306, 2008.
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  3. Cassak, P. A., D. J. Mullan, and M. A. Shay, From Solar and Stellar Flares to Coronal Heating: Theory and Observations of How Magnetic Reconnection Regulates Coronal Conditions, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 676, L69, 2008.
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  4. Phan, T. D., J. F. Drake, M. A. Shay, F. S. Mozer, and J. P. Eastwood, Evidence for an elongated (> 60 ion skin depths) electron diffusion region during fast magnetic reconnection, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 99, 255002, 2007.
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  5. Cassak, P. A. and M. A. Shay, Scaling of Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection: General Theory and Collisional Simulations, Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 14, 102114, 2007.
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  6. Shay, M. A., J. F. Drake, and M. Swisdak, Two-scale structure of the electron dissipation region during collisionless magnetic reconnection, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 99, 155002, 2007.
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  7. Drake, J. F. and M. A. Shay, Fundamentals of Collisionless Reconnection, in Reconnection of Magnetic Fields: Magnetohydrodynamic and Collisionless Theory and Observations, edited by J. Birn and E. Priest, p. 87, Cambridge University Press, 2007.

  8. Eastwood, J., T. Phan, F. S. Mozer, M. A. Shay, M. Fujimoto, A. Retino, M. Hesse, A. Balogh, E. A. Lucek, and I. Dandouras, Multipoint observations of the Hall electromagnetic field and secondary island formation during magnetic reconnection, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 112, A06235, doi:10.1029/2006JA012158, 2007.
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  9. Cassak, P. A., J. F. Drake, M. A. Shay, and B. Eckhardt, Onset of Fast Magnetic Reconnection, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 98, 215001, 2007.
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  10. Cassak, P. A., J. F. Drake, and M. A. Shay, Catastrophic onset of fast magnetic reconnection with a guide field, Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 14, 054502, 2007.
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  11. Shay, M. A., J. F. Drake, and B. Dorland, Equation free projective integration: A multiscale method applied to a plasma ion acoustic wave, Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 226, p. 571, 2007.
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  12. Shay, M. and M. J. Wiltberger, Magnetospheric dynamics -- Models and observations at multiple scales, Advances in Space Research, Vol. 38, p. 1571, 2006.
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  13. Drake, J. F., M. Swisdak, H. Che, and M. A. Shay, Electron acceleration from contracting magnetic islands during reconnection, Nature, Vol. 443, p. 553, doi:10.1038/nature05116, 2006.
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  14. Cassak, P. A., J. F. Drake, ands M. A. Shay, A model for spontaneous onset of fast magnetic reconnection, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 644, L145, 2006.
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  15. Sullivan, B. P., B. N. Rogers, and M. A. Shay, The scaling of forced collisionless reconnection, Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 12, 122312, 2005.
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  16. Shay, M. A. and M. Siwsdak, Reply to Comment on "Three-Species Collisionless Reconnection: Effect of O+ on Magnetotail Reconnection," Physical Review Letters, Vol. 95, 099501, 2005.
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  17. Cassak, P. A., M. A. Shay, and J. F. Drake, A catastrophe model for fast magnetic reconnection onset, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 95, 235002, 2005.
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  18. Drake, J. F., M. A. Shay, W. Thongthai, and M. Swisdak, Production of energetic electrons during magnetic reconnection, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 94, 095001, 2005.
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  19. Swisdak, M., J. F. Drake, J. G. McIlhargey, and M. A. Shay, The transition from anti-parallel to component magnetic reconnection, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 110, A05210, doi: 10.1029/2004JA010748, 2005.
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  20. Jemella, B. D., J. F. Drake, and M. A. Shay, Singular structure of magnetic islands resulting from reconnection, Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 11, No. 12, December, p.5668, 2004. 
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  21. Shay, M. A. and M. Swisdak, Three species collisionless reconnection: Effect of O+ on magnetotail reconnection, Physical Review Letters,  Vol. 93, No. 17, 175001, 2004. 
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  22. Goodrich, C. C., A. L. Sussman, J. G. Lyon, M. A. Shay, and P. A. Cassak, The CISM code coupling strategy, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Vol. 66, p. 1469, 2004. 
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  23. Shay, M. A., J. F. Drake, M. Swisdak, and B. N. Rogers, The scaling of embedded collisionless reconnection, Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 11, No. 5, p. 2199, 2004.
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  24. Ohtani, S., M. A. Shay, and T. Mukai, The temporal structure of the fast convective flow in the plasma sheet: Comparison between observations and two-fluid simulations, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 109, A03210, doi:10.1029/2003JA010002, 2004.
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  25. Jemella, B. D., M. A. Shay, J. F. Drake, and B. N. Rogers, Impact of Frustrated Singularities on Magnetic Island Evolution, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 91, No. 12, 125002, 2003.
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  26. Swisdak, M., B. N. Rogers, J. F. Drake, and M. A. Shay, Diamagnetic suppression of component magnetic reconnection at the magnetopause, Journal of Geophysical Research , Vol. 108, No. A5, p. 1218, doi:10.1029/2002JA009726, 2003.
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  27. Shay, M. A., J. F. Drake, M. Swisdak, W. Dorland, and B. N. Rogers, Inherently three dimensional magnetic reconnection: A mechanism for bursty bulk flows? Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 30, No. 6, 1345,p. 78-1, doi:10.1029/2002GL016267, 2003.
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  28. Drake, J. F., M. Swisdak, C. Cattell, M. A. Shay, B. N. Rogers, and A. Zeiler, Formation of electron holes and particle energization during magnetic reconnection, Science, Vol. 299, p. 873, Feb. 7, 2003.
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  29. Zeiler, A., Biskamp, D., Drake, J. F., Rogers, B. N., Shay, M. A., Scholer, M., Three-dimensional particle simulations of collisionless magnetic reconnection, J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 107, Number A9, 1230, doi:10.1029/2001JA000287, 2002.
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  30. Rogers, B. N., Denton, R. E., Drake, J. F., Shay, M. A., Role of Dispersive Waves in Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 87, Number 19, 195004, Nov. 5, 2001.
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  31. Birn, J., J. F. Drake, M. A. Shay, B. N. Rogers, R. E. Denton, M. Hesse, M. Kuznetsova, Z. W. Ma, A. Bhattacharjee, A. Otto, and P. L. Pritchett, Geospace Environmental Modeling (GEM) Magnetic Reconnection Challenge, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 106, No. A3, Pages 3715-3719, March 1, 2001.
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  32. Shay, M. A., J. F. Drake, B. N. Rogers, R. E. Denton, Aflvenic collisionless magnetic reconnection and the Hall term, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 106, No. A3, Pages 3759-3772, March 1, 2001.
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  33. Rogers, B. N., J. F. Drake, M. A. Shay, The onset of turbulence in 3D collisionless magnetic reconnection, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 27, No.19, Pages 3157-3160, October 1,2000.
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  34. Shay, M. A., The Dynamics of Collisionless, Magnetic Reconnection , Doctoral Thesis, University of Maryland, 1998.
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  35. Shay, M. A., J. F. Drake, B. N. Rogers, R. E. Denton The scaling of collisionless, magnetic reconnection for large systems, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 26, No.14, Pages 2163-2166, July 15, 1999.
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  36. Shay, M. A., J. F. Drake, The role of electron dissipation on the rate of collisionless magnetic reconnection, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 25, No. 20, Pages 3759-3762, October 15, 1998.
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  37. Shay, M. A., J. F. Drake, R. E. Denton, D. Biskamp, Structure of the dissipation region during collisionless magnetic reconnection, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 103, No. A5, Pages 9165-9176, May 1, 1998.
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