Publications of M. A. Shay

A list of publications authored or co-authored by M. A. Shay, 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: 0000-0003-1861-4767

List of publications ordered by citations
Number of papers: 51 (refereed: 51)
No. of citations: 1493
First author papers: 2 (refereed: 2)

2026

  1. Magnetic Reconnection Energy Fluxes in the Near-Sun Heliospheric Current Sheet as Observed by Parker Solar Probe [0]
    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., ApJ, 996, 140
  2. Factors controlling the statistics of magnetic reconnection in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence [1]
    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., Physical Review E, 113, 015207
  3. Flow Crossover and Parallel Outflow during Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection [0]
    Pianpanit, Theerasarn, Malakit, Kittipat, Prapan, Pakkapawn, Ruffolo, David, Pongkitiwanichakul, Peera, Suetrong, Piyawat, Shay, Michael A. & Cassak, Paul A., Physical Review Letters, 136, 085201

2025

  1. Dependence of electron pressure─strain interaction on guide magnetic field for ion coupled magnetic reconnection [0]
    Adhikari, Subash, Cassak, Paul A., Barbhuiya, M. Hasan, Shay, Michael A., Chasapis, Alexandros, Yang, Yan & Matthaeus, William H., Physics of Plasmas, 32, 122304
  2. Identifying the Growth Phase of Magnetic Reconnection Using Pressure-Strain Interaction [3]
    Barbhuiya, M. Hasan, Cassak, Paul A., Chasapis, Alex, Shay, Michael A., Cozzani, Giulia & Retinò, Alessandro, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 130, 2024JA033446
  3. The Enhancement of Ion Heating in Kinetic, Antiparallel Reconnection in the Presence of a Flow Shear [2]
    Haggerty, Colby C., Sikorski, Derek, Shay, Michael A., Phan, Tai D., Cassak, Paul A., Murtas, Giulia & Pyakurel, Prayash S., ApJ, 995, 156
  4. Detection of Large Guide Field Electron-Only Reconnection in a Filamentary Current Sheet Immersed in a Large-Scale Magnetopause Reconnection Exhaust [3]
    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., Physical Review Letters, 134, 115201
  5. Kinetic Simulation of Magnetic Reconnection with Pickup Ions: Shell Stability and Reconnection Rate Analysis [1]
    Pyakurel, P. S., Swisdak, M., Eriksson, S., Shrestha, B. L., Liu, Y.-H., TenBarge, J. M., Shay, M. A. & Phan, T. D., ApJ, 988, 119
  6. Simulation Models for Exploring Magnetic Reconnection [8]
    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., Space Science Reviews, 221, 81

2024

  1. Scale filtering analysis of kinetic reconnection and its associated turbulence [8]
    Adhikari, Subash, Yang, Yan, Matthaeus, William H., Cassak, Paul A., Parashar, Tulasi N. & Shay, Michael A., Physics of Plasmas, 31, 020701
  2. Scale Separation Effects on Simulations of Plasma Turbulence [4]
    Edyvean, Jago, Parashar, Tulasi N., Simpson, Tom, Juno, James, Delzanno, Gian Luca, Guo, Fan, Koshkarov, Oleksandr, Matthaeus, William H., Shay, Michael & Yang, Yan, ApJ, 972, 173
  3. Suppression of Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection in the High Ion β, Strong Guide Field Limit [4]
    Giai, Carlos A., Haggerty, Colby C., Shay, Michael A., Cassak, Paul A. & Davis, Zachary K., ApJ, 977, 218
  4. Scaling of Ion Bulk Heating in Magnetic Reconnection Outflows for the High-Alfvén-speed and Low-β Regime in Earth's Magnetotail [10]
    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., ApJ, 971, 144

2023

  1. Effect of a guide field on the turbulence like properties of magnetic reconnection [12]
    Adhikari, S., Shay, M. A., Parashar, T. N., Matthaeus, W. H., Pyakurel, P. S., Stawarz, J. E. & Eastwood, J. P., Physics of Plasmas, 30, 082904
  2. Statistics of pressure fluctuations in turbulent kinetic plasmas [2]
    Adhikari, S., Matthaeus, W. H., Parashar, T. N., Shay, M. A. & Cassak, P. A., MNRAS, 526, 4067
  3. Three-Dimensional Magnetic Reconnection Spreading in Current Sheets of Non-Uniform Thickness [4]
    Arencibia, Milton, Cassak, Paul A., Shay, Michael A., Qiu, Jiong, Petrinec, Steven M. & Liang, Haoming, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 128, e2022JA030999
  4. A Machine Learning-Based Approach to Time-series Wave Identification in the Solar Wind [3]
    Fordin, Samuel, Shay, Michael, Wilson, Lynn B., III, Maruca, Bennett & Thompson, Barbara J., ApJ, 949, 40
  5. On the Short-scale Spatial Variability of Electron Inflows in Electron-only Magnetic Reconnection in the Turbulent Magnetosheath Observed by MMS [7]
    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., ApJ, 948, 20

2022

  1. Scaling of Electron Heating by Magnetization During Reconnection and Applications to Dipolarization Fronts and Super-Hot Solar Flares [8]
    Barbhuiya, M. Hasan, Cassak, P. A., Shay, M. A., Roytershteyn, Vadim, Swisdak, M., Caspi, Amir, Runov, Andrei & Liang, Haoming, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 127, e30610
  2. Alpha Particle Temperature Anisotropy in Earth's Magnetosheath [7]
    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., ApJ, 941, 12
  3. Turbulence-driven magnetic reconnection and the magnetic correlation length: Observations from Magnetospheric Multiscale in Earth's magnetosheath [64]
    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., Physics of Plasmas, 29, 012302
  4. Strategies for Determining the Cascade Rate in MHD Turbulence: Isotropy, Anisotropy, and Spacecraft Sampling [27]
    Wang, Yanwen, Chhiber, Rohit, Adhikari, Subash, Yang, Yan, Bandyopadhyay, Riddhi, Shay, Michael A., Oughton, Sean, Matthaeus, William H. & Cuesta, Manuel E., ApJ, 937, 76

2021

  1. Energy transfer in reconnection and turbulence [28]
    Adhikari, S., Parashar, T. N., Shay, M. A., Matthaeus, W. H., Pyakurel, P. S., Fordin, S., Stawarz, J. E. & Eastwood, J. P., Physical Review E, 104, 065206
  2. Scaling theory of three-dimensional magnetic reconnection spreading [5]
    Arencibia, Milton, Cassak, P. A., Shay, M. A. & Priest, E. R., Physics of Plasmas, 28, 082104
  3. Energy dissipation in turbulent reconnection [38]
    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., Physics of Plasmas, 28, 112305
  4. Solar Orbiter observations of an ion-scale flux rope confined to a bifurcated solar wind current sheet [17]
    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., A&A, 656, A27
  5. Spatial evolution of magnetic reconnection diffusion region structures with distance from the X-line [11]
    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., Physics of Plasmas, 28, 122901

2020

  1. Reconnection from a turbulence perspective [28]
    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., Physics of Plasmas, 27, 042305
  2. Energy Flux Densities near the Electron Dissipation Region in Asymmetric Magnetopause Reconnection [30]
    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., Physical Review Letters, 125, 265102
  3. Particle Acceleration in Strong Turbulence in the Earth's Magnetotail [46]
    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., ApJ, 898, 153
  4. Parker Solar Probe In Situ Observations of Magnetic Reconnection Exhausts during Encounter 1 [110]
    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., ApJS, 246, 34

2019

  1. Decomposition of plasma kinetic entropy into position and velocity space and the use of kinetic entropy in particle-in-cell simulations [25]
    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, Physics of Plasmas, 26, 082903
  2. Transition from ion-coupled to electron-only reconnection: Basic physics and implications for plasma turbulence [96]
    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., Physics of Plasmas, 26, 082307
  3. Properties of the Turbulence Associated with Electron-only Magnetic Reconnection in Earth’s Magnetosheath [108]
    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., ApJ, 877, L37

2018

  1. Incompressive Energy Transfer in the Earth’s Magnetosheath: Magnetospheric Multiscale Observations [58]
    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., ApJ, 866, 106
  2. Localized Oscillatory Energy Conversion in Magnetopause Reconnection [46]
    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., Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 1237
  3. Guide Field Reconnection: Exhaust Structure and Heating [42]
    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., Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 4569
  4. The reduction of magnetic reconnection outflow jets to sub-Alfvénic speeds [30]
    Haggerty, Colby C., Shay, Michael A., Chasapis, Alexandros, Phan, Tai D., Drake, James F., Malakit, Kittipat, Cassak, Paul A. & Kieokaew, Rungployphan, Physics of Plasmas, 25, 102120
  5. MMS Observations of Beta-dependent Constraints on Ion Temperature Anisotropy in Earth’s Magnetosheath [36]
    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., ApJ, 866, 25
  6. Super-Alfvénic Propagation and Damping of Reconnection Onset Signatures [11]
    Sharma Pyakurel, P., Shay, M. A., Haggerty, C. C., Parashar, T. N., Drake, J. F., Cassak, P. A. & Gary, S. Peter, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 123, 341
  7. Turbulent heating due to magnetic reconnection [35]
    Shay, M. A., Haggerty, C. C., Matthaeus, W. H., Parashar, T. N., Wan, M. & Wu, P., Physics of Plasmas, 25, 012304
  8. Electron-scale dynamics of the diffusion region during symmetric magnetic reconnection in space [284]
    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., Science, 362, 1391

2017

  1. The Effect of a Guide Field on Local Energy Conversion During Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection: Particle-in-Cell Simulations [33]
    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., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 122, 11,523
  2. Kinetic simulation of asymmetric magnetic reconnection with cold ions [33]
    Dargent, J., Aunai, N., Lavraud, B., Toledo-Redondo, S., Shay, M. A., Cassak, P. A. & Malakit, K., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 122, 5290
  3. Effects of a Guide Field on the Larmor Electric Field and Upstream Electron Temperature Anisotropy in Collisionless Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection [2]
    Ek-In, Surapat, Malakit, Kittipat, Ruffolo, David, Shay, Michael A. & Cassak, Paul A., ApJ, 845, 113
  4. Drift waves, intense parallel electric fields, and turbulence associated with asymmetric magnetic reconnection at the magnetopause [51]
    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., Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 2978
  5. Exploring the statistics of magnetic reconnection X-points in kinetic particle-in-cell turbulence [52]
    Haggerty, C. C., Parashar, T. N., Matthaeus, W. H., Shay, M. A., Yang, Y., Wan, M., Wu, P. & Servidio, S., Physics of Plasmas, 24, 102308
  6. Structure of Exhausts in Magnetic Reconnection with an X-line of Finite Extent [6]
    Shepherd, L. S., Cassak, P. A., Drake, J. F., Gosling, J. T., Phan, T.-D. & Shay, M. A., ApJ, 848, 90
  7. Magnetospheric Multiscale analysis of intense field-aligned Poynting flux near the Earth's plasma sheet boundary [19]
    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., Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 7106
  8. THEMIS multispacecraft observations of a reconnecting magnetosheath current sheet with symmetric boundary conditions and a large guide field [14]
    Øieroset, M., Phan, T. D., Shay, M. A., Haggerty, C. C., Fujimoto, M., Angelopoulos, V., Eastwood, J. P. & Mozer, F. S., Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 7598

2015

  1. Fast magnetic reconnection due to anisotropic electron pressure [21]
    Cassak, P. A., Baylor, R. N., Fermo, R. L., Beidler, M. T., Shay, M. A., Swisdak, M., Drake, J. F. & Karimabadi, H., Physics of Plasmas, 22, 020705

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