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Michael Hesse

Vice Provost
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Dr. Michael Hesse serves as Vice Provost for Research and Innovation (VPRI) at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), where he provides strategic leadership for the university’s research enterprise. In this role, he oversees the development and execution of research priorities that advance the Navy, Marine Corps, and Department of Defense. He directs efforts to expand interdisciplinary collaboration, foster partnerships with government, industry, and academia, and support faculty and student innovation. Dr. Hesse also plays a central role in advancing the Naval Innovation Center at NPS, aligning cutting-edge research with operational challenges to accelerate solutions for national security.

Before joining NPS, Dr. Michael Hesse served as the Director of the Science Directorate at NASA’s Ames Research Center, a position in the Senior Executive Service. In this role, he wass leading a staff of about 500 government and contract employees, and postdoctoral fellows engaged in Earth science, planetary and astrophysical research, and space biological research. His responsibilities included provision of an entrepreneurial vision, scientific leadership, the management of organizational resources, management and development of budget and financial resources, internal and external partnerships, and overall implementation of NASA priorities. He represented the organization to senior leadership of government and nongovernmental organizations inside the U.S. and internationally. He led the Directorate in its responses to Announcements of Opportunity from NASA Headquarters and elsewhere and he oversees the conception, construction, and delivery of flight hardware to airborne assets, satellite, and rover projects, as well as the leadership of such projects. Under his supervision, his organization conducted world-class research through the analyses of the data from these experiments, the comparison of these data set with computer simulations and theoretical models, and the publication of results in the scientific literature. He led an extensive outreach effort, and provides continuing education of visiting students, of postdoctoral fellows, and of scientific staff.

Before joining Ames and re-joining NASA, Michael spent three years at the University of Bergen in Norway, where he held a professorship in physics. In Bergen, he also led the Geomagnetic Expert Service Centre, a multi-national consortium providing space weather services to ESA. He further held a part-time position with the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, where he contributed to research and leadership of NASA’s Magnetospheric MultiScale mission.

Prior to moving to Bergen, Michael had a distinguished 25-year career at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). He previously served as the Director of the Heliophysics Science Division, a Senior Executive Service position. In that role, he was responsible for a staff of about 300 civil servants, university scientists, and contractors engaged in solar and space research, instrumentation and mission development, and space environment modeling for NASA and partners. Michael’s earlier positions include Chief of GSFC’s Space Weather Laboratory, a research scientist appointment in the Electrodynamics Branch, and a postdoctoral fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Michael was the founding Director of the Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC), the world’s foremost organization providing unprecedented comprehensive modeling services to the international space science community. Michael had various roles in NASA missions, most recently that of Lead Co-Investigator for Theory and Modeling for NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale mission. He has served on numerous committees, including on the Steering Committee of the 2013 Heliophysics Decadal Survey.

Michael remains a publishing research scientist, with more than 300 papers in the scientific literature, and an H index of 76. In addition to theory and modeling of kinetic space plasma processes, his research interests include space weather-related topics. He was elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2010, he received NASA’s Outstanding Leadership Medal in 2007, and NASA’s Distinguished Service Medal in 2017. Michael was elected member of Academia Europea in 2019, and he received the Space Weather and Nonlinear Waves and Processes prize of the American Geophysical Union in the same year. In 2023 he was recognized by the Meritorious Presidential Rank Award for Senior Executives. Michael received his diploma and doctoral degree in Theoretical Physics from the Ruhr-Universität in Bochum, Germany. Michael’s hobbies are hiking, travel, sports cars, and amateur photography.
NPS Experience
  • 2025 - current: Vice Provost
Other Experience
  • 2020 - 2025 Director of the Science Directorate, NASA Ames Research Center
  • 2017 - 2020 Professor of Physics, University of Bergen
  • 2011 - 2016 Director, Heliophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Research Interests
Plasma physics, space plasma physics, space weather

Scholarly Work

Publications
  • Journal Articles
  • Birn, J., Hesse, M., Bingham, S., Turner, D., & Nakamura, R, Acceleration of Oxygen Ions in Dipolarization Events.
  • Pembroke, A., Toffoletto, F., & Hesse, M, Applications of Magnetic Field Mapping in MHD Analysis Path, Surface and Volume Integration Techniques.
  • Zheng, Y., Kuznetsova, M., Rastaetter, L., & Hesse, M, Auroral Precipitation Models: A Potential Future Topic for GGCM Metrics and Validation.
  • Rast\"atter, Lutz, Kuznetsova, M. M., Hesse, M., Reitan, P. J., Ritter, S. J., & Fok, M. C, Comparative Modeling of Magnetospheric and Ring Current Dynamics for the July 2000 Space Weather Event.
  • Bessho, N., Chen, L., Wang, S., & Hesse, M, Effects of the guide field on electron distribution functions in the.
  • Hesse, M., Zenitani, S., Kuznetsova, M., & Klimas, A, Erratum:“A simple, analytical model of collisionless magnetic reconnection in a pair plasma”[Phys. Plasmas 16, 102106. Phys. Plasmas, 102106(16), 200.
  • Hesse, M., Kuznetsova, M., Branch, E., Ma, Z., Bhattacharjee, A., Otto, A., & Pritchett, P, GEM Magnetic Reconnection Challenge J. Birn Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico JF Drake, MA Shay, BN Rogers and RE Denton Institute for Plasma Research, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.
  • Bessho, N., Ng, J., Chen, L., Hesse, M., Wilson, L. B., & Stawarz, J. E, Ion heating and acceleration in magnetic reconnection and current sheets in shock-driven turbulence. AGU25.
  • Bessho, N., Chen, L., Wang, S., Hesse, M., Wilson, III, L., & Ng, J, Magnetic reconnection and kinetic waves generated in the Earth’s.
  • Kuznetsova, M., Hesse, M., Rast\"atter, L, Taktakishvili, A., Toth, G., De Zeeuw, D., Ridley, A., & Gombosi, T, Multi-Scale Modeling of Magnetospheric.
  • Wilson, F., Neukirch, T., Hesse, M., Harrison, M., & Stark, C, PIC Simulations of Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection with a Non-Uniform Guide Field.
  • Hesse, M., & Klimas, A, Scaling of the Anomalous Boost in Relativistic Jet Boundary Layer.
  • Reitan, P. J., Rast\"atter, Lutz, Deane, A. E., De Zeeuw, D. L., Gombosi, T. I., Hesse, M., Kuznetsova, M. M., Powell, K. G., & Ritter, S. J, The Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC): Initial Results.
  • Smith, M. F., Herrero, F., Hesse, M., Baker, D. N., Bochsler, P., Wurz, P., Balsiger, H., Chakrabarti, S., Erickson, G., Cotton, D., & other, The High-Latitude Ion Transport and Energetics (HI-LifE) Explorer: A mission to investigate ion outflow from the high-latitude ionosphere.
  • Reitan, P. J., Keller, K. A., Kuznetsova, M. M., Rast\"atter, Lutz, & Hesse, M, Vector Field Visualization of Magnetospheric Dynamics using Critical Point Analysis.
  • Yamada, M., Drake, J., Egedal, J., Hesse, M., Ji, H., Mozer, F., Phan, T., Torbert, R., Yoo, J., & Zweibel, E, White Paper for Frontiers of Plasma Science Panel.
  • Birn, J., Merkin, V., Sitnov, M., & Hesse, M, (2025). 3-D MHD stability of magnetotail configurations with a Bz hump. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 6(130), e2024JA033648.
  • Liu, Y., Pyakurel, P., Li, X., Hesse, M., Bessho, N., Genestreti, K., & Thapa, S. B, (2025). An analytical model of “electron-only” magnetic reconnection rates. Communications Physics, 1(8), 128.
  • Bessho, N., Ng, J., Chen, L., Hesse, M., Wilson, III, L., & Stawarz, J, (2025). Data sets for" Effects of nonresonant instability and magnetic reconnection on ion heating and acceleration in quasi-parallel shock waves".
  • Bessho, N., Ng, J., Chen, L., Hesse, M., Wilson, III, L., & Stawarz, J, (2025). Effects of Nonresonant Instability and Magnetic Reconnection on Ion Heating and Acceleration in Quasi-parallel Shock Waves. The Astrophysical Journal, 1(992), 77.
  • Bessho, N., Chen, L., Hesse, M., Ng, J., Wilson, III, L., & Stawarz, J, (2025). Electron Acceleration in Thinning Nonreconnecting Current Sheets in a Quasi-parallel Shock. The Astrophysical Journal, 2(992), 183.
  • Liu, Y., Pyakurel, P. S., Li, X., Hesse, M., Bessho, N., Genestreti, K. J., & Thapa, S, (2025). Modeling the “Electron-Only” magnetic reconnection rates at sub-ion-scales. AGU25.
  • Liu, Y., Hesse, M., Genestreti, K., Nakamura, R., Burch, J. L., Cassak, P. A., Bessho, N., Eastwood, J. P., Phan, T., Swisdak, M., & other, (2025). Ohm’s law, the reconnection rate, and energy conversion in collisionless magnetic reconnection. Space Science Reviews, 1(221), 16.
  • Norgren, C., Hesse, M., Phan, T., Khotyaintsev, Y. V., Graham, D. B., & Kwagala, N, (2025). Phase-space contributions to pressure and stress tensors in the electron diffusion region of magnetic reconnection. Physics of Plasmas, 5(32).
  • Genestreti, K., Nakamura, R., Liu, Y., Burch, J., Norgren, C., Shuster, J., Hesse, M., Torbert, R., Chen, L., & Heuer, S, (2025). Structure of the electron diffusion region during magnetic reconnection. Space Science Reviews, 5(221), 59.
  • Birn, J., Merkin, V. G., Sitnov, M. I., & Hesse, M, (2024). 3-D MHD stability of magnetotail configurations with a B\_z hump. Authorea Preprints.
  • Bessho, N., Chen, L., Hesse, M., Ng, J., Wilson, L., Stawarz, J., & Madanian, H, (2024). Electron motion and acceleration in magnetic flux ropes produced by magnetic reconnection in quasi-parallel shocks. Bulletin of the American Physical Society.
  • Agudelo Rueda, J. A., Liu, Y., Germaschewski, K., Hesse, M., & Bessho, N, (2024). Exploring the effect of turbulent fluctuations on the onset of reconnection. arXiv e-prints, arXiv--2408.
  • Agudelo Rueda, J. A., Liu, Y., Germaschewski, K., Hesse, M., & Bessho, N, (2024). On the Effect of Driving Turbulent-like Fluctuations on a Harris Current Sheet Configuration and the Formation of Plasmoids. The Astrophysical Journal, 1(971), 109.
  • Nykyri, K., Adhikari, L., Argall, M., Borovsky, J., Broll, J., Burkholder, B., DiMatteo, S., Ebert, R. W., Egedal, J., Hesse, M., & other, (2023). Critical solar wind measurements required for the next generation space weather prediction mission: Science motivation for the seven Sisters mission. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 3(55), 298.
  • Bessho, N., Chen, L., Hesse, M., Ng, J., Wilson, III, L., & Stawarz, J, (2023). Electron acceleration and heating during magnetic reconnection in the earth's quasi-parallel bow shock. The Astrophysical Journal, 1(954), 25.
  • Rueda, J. A., Liu, Y., Germaschewski, K., Hesse, M., & Bessho, N, (2023). Exploring the Effect of Driving Turbulent Fluctuations on the Onset of Magnetic Reconnection. AGU23.
  • Green, J., Dong, C., Hesse, M., Young, C. A., & Airapetian, V, (2023). Space Weather Observations, Modeling, and Alerts in Support of Human Exploration of Mars. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 3(55), 141.
  • Spinnangr, S. F., Tenfjord, P., Hesse, M., Norgren, C., Kolst\o, H\aakon M, Kwagala, N. K., J\orgensen, Therese Moretto, & P\'erez-Coll Jim\'enez, Judi, (2022). Asymmetrically Varying Guide Field During Magnetic Reconnection: Particle-In-Cell Simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 1(127), e2021JA029955.
  • Huang, K., Liu, Y., Lu, Q., Hu, Z., Lynch, K. A., Hesse, M., Vaivads, A., & Yang, H, (2022). Auroral spiral structure formation through magnetic reconnection in the auroral acceleration region. Geophysical Research Letters, 18(49), e2022GL100466.
  • Birn, J., Runov, A., & Hesse, M, (2022). Electron anisotropies in depolarization events.
  • Spinnangr, S. F., Hesse, M., Tenfjord, P., Norgren, C., Kolst\o, H\aakon M, Kwagala, N. K., J\orgensen, Therese Moretto, & Phan, T, (2022). Electron behavior around the onset of magnetic reconnection. Geophysical Research Letters, 23(49), e2022GL102209.
  • Bessho, N., Chen, L., Wang, S., Hesse, M., & other, (2022). Electron heating along the separatrix due to whistler waves in asymmetric magnetic reconnection. Bulletin of the American Physical Society, (67).
  • Birn, J., Hesse, M., Runov, A., Turner, D. L., Cohen, I., & Slavin, J. A, (2022). Energetic ions downtail of the reconnection site. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 1(127), e2021JA029892.
  • Pathak, N., Ergun, R., Qi, Y., Schwartz, S. J., Vo, T., Usanova, M., Hesse, M., Phan, T., Drake, J. F., Eriksson, S., & other, (2022). Evidence of a Nonorthogonal X-line in Guide-field Magnetic Reconnection. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2(941), L34.
  • Hasegawa, H., Denton, R. E., Nakamura, T., Genestreti, K. J., Phan, T., Nakamura, R., Hwang, K., Ahmadi, N., Shi, Q., Hesse, M., & other, (2022). Fast Magnetic Field Annihilation in Magnetotail Electron-scale Current Sheet. Authorea Preprints.
  • Liu, Y., Cassak, P., Li, X., Hesse, M., Lin, S., & Genestreti, K, (2022). First-principles theory of the rate of magnetic reconnection in magnetospheric and solar plasmas. Communications Physics, 1(5), 97.
  • Bessho, N., Liu, Y., Ng, J., Shuster, J., Hesse, M., & Chen, L, (2022). Kinetic Physics Investigation of Magnetic Reconnection in the Heliosphere: Requirements for Simulations and Comparison with Space Measurements. White paper prepared for the The Decadal Survey on Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics, 256.
  • Wang, S., Chen, L., Bessho, N., Ng, J., Hesse, M., Graham, D. B., Le Contel, O., Gershman, D., & Giles, B, (2022). Lower-hybrid wave structures and interactions with electrons observed in magnetotail reconnection diffusion regions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 5(127), e2021JA030109.
  • Hasegawa, H., Denton, R. E., Nakamura, T., Genestreti, K. J., Phan, T. D., Nakamura, R., Hwang, K., Ahmadi, N., Shi, Q., Hesse, M., & other, (2022). Magnetic field annihilation in a magnetotail electron diffusion region with electron-scale magnetic island. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 7(127), e2022JA030408.
  • Norgren, C., Graham, D. B., Argall, M., Steinvall, K., Hesse, M., Khotyaintsev, Y. V., Vaivads, A., Tenfjord, P., Gershman, D., Lindqvist, P., & other, (2022). Millisecond observations of nonlinear wave--electron interaction in electron phase space holes. Physics of Plasmas, 1(29).
  • Hesse, M., Burch, D. J., Liu, Y., Bessho, N., Wang, S., & other, (2022). MMS’s contributions to our understanding of magnetic reconnection.
  • Green, J. L., Dong, C., Hesse, M., Young, C. A., & Airapetian, V, (2022). Space weather observations, modeling, and alerts in support of human exploration of Mars. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, (9), 1023305.
  • Bessho, N., Chen, L., Stawarz, J., Wang, S., Hesse, M., Wilson, L., & Ng, J, (2022). Strong reconnection electric fields in shock-driven turbulence. Physics of Plasmas, 4(29).
  • Burch, J., Hesse, M., Webster, J., Genestreti, K., Torbert, R., Denton, R., Ergun, R., Giles, B., Gershman, D., Russell, C., & other, (2022). The EDR inflow region of a reconnecting current sheet in the geomagnetic tail. Physics of Plasmas, 5(29).
  • Hesse, M., Burch, J., Liu, Y., Bessho, N., Wang, S., Norgren, C., Midthun Kolst\o, H\aakon, & Fl\o Spinnangr, Susann, (2022). The electron diffusion region and its relation to the larger-scale environment. 44th COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Held 16-24 July, (44), 1713.
  • P\'erez-Coll Jim\'enez, Judit, Tenfjord, P., Hesse, M., Norgren, C., Kwagala, N., Kolst\o, H\aakon Midthun, & Spinnangr, Susanne Fl\, (2022). The role of resistivity on the efficiency of magnetic reconnection in mhd. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 6(127), e2021JA030134.
  • Hesse, M., Burch, J., Liu, Y., Bessho, N., Wang, S., Norgren, C., Fl\o Spinnangr, Susanne, & Midthun Kolst\o, H\aako, (2022). What do we know about the reconnection electric field? 44th COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Held 16-24 July, (44), 1567.
  • Hesse, M, (2022). What does MMS teach us regarding magnetic reconnection in the solar corona? Third Triennial Earth-Sun Summit (TESS), 7(54).
  • Wang, S., Chen, L., Bessho, N., Hesse, M., & Choi, S, (2022). Whistler wave excitation mechanisms in magnetopause reconnection diffusion regions observed by MMS.
  • Choi, S., Bessho, N., Wang, S., Chen, L., & Hesse, M, (2022). Whistler waves generated by nongyrotropic and gyrotropic electron beams during asymmetric guide field reconnection. Physics of Plasmas, 1(29).
  • Hesse, M., Burch, J., Chen, L., Tenfjord, P., Liu, Y., Bessho, N., Wang, S., & Norgren, C, (2021). A comparison of electron diffusion regions for symmetric and asymmetric magnetic reconnection. 43rd COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Held 28 January-4 February, (43), 1076.
  • Hesse, M., Norgren, C., Tenfjord, P., Burch, J. L., Liu, Y., Bessho, N., Chen, L., Wang, S., Kolst\o, H\aakon, Spinnangr, S. F., & other, (2021). A new look at the electron diffusion region in asymmetric magnetic reconnection. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 2(126), e2020JA028456.
  • Norgren, C., Hesse, M., Tenfjord, P., Moretto, T., Midthun Kolst\o, H\aakon, & Fl\o Spinnangr, Susann, (2021). Acceleration and thermalization of cold ions within the reconnection exhaust. 43rd COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Held 28 January-4 February, (43), 1104.
  • Birn, J., Hesse, M., Bingham, S., Turner, D., & Nakamura, R, (2021). Acceleration of oxygen ions in dipolarization events: 1. CPS distributions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 7(126), e2021JA029184.
  • Norgren, C., Lindqvist, P., Plaschke, F., Hesse, M., Khotyaintsev, Y., Burch, J., Vaivads, A., Gershman, D., Graham, D., Tenfjord, P., & other, (2021). Electron acceleration and thermalisation at magnetotail separatrices. 43rd COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Held 28 January-4 February, (43), 1095.
  • Moretto, T., Hesse, M., Kuznetsova, M., Rast\"atter, L, Vennerstr\om, S, & Tenfjord, P, (2021). How does the magnetosphere go to sleep? Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, (220), 105626.
  • Wang, S., Chen, L., Ng, J., Bessho, N., & Hesse, M, (2021). Lower-hybrid drift waves and their interaction with plasmas in a 3D symmetric reconnection simulation with zero guide field. Physics of Plasmas, 7(28).
  • Kuniyoshi, H., Hesse, M., Norgren, C., Tenfjord, P., & Kwagala, N. K, (2021). Magnetic reconnection in a sheared magnetic flux tube: Slippage versus tearing. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 7(126), e2021JA029236.
  • Kolst\o, H\aakon Midthun, Norgren, C., Hesse, M., Chen, L., Tenfjord, P., Spinnangr, Susanne Fl\o, & Kwagala, N, (2021). Magnetospheric multiscale observations of an expanding oxygen wave in magnetic reconnection. Geophysical Research Letters, 19(48), e2021GL095065.
  • Norgren, C., Tenfjord, P., Hesse, M., Toledo-Redondo, S., Li, W., Xu, Y., Kwagala, N. K., Spinnangr, S., Kolst\o, H\aakon, & Moretto, T, (2021). On the presence and thermalization of cold ions in the exhaust of antiparallel symmetric reconnection. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, (8), 730061.
  • Spinnangr, S. F., Hesse, M., Tenfjord, P., Norgren, C., Kolst\o, H\aakon M, Kwagala, N. K., & J\orgensen, Therese , (2021). The micro-macro coupling of mass-loading in symmetric magnetic reconnection with cold ions. Geophysical Research Letters, 13(48), e2020GL090690.
  • Bessho, N., Wang, S., Chen, L., Hesse, M., & other, (2021). Whistler waves generated by nongyrotropic and gyrotropic electron beams in asymmetric guide field reconnection. Bulletin of the American Physical Society, (66).
  • Dai, L., Wang, C., Cai, Z., Gonzalez, W., Hesse, M., Escoubet, P., Phan, T., Vasyliunas, V., Lu, Q., Li, L., & other, (2020). AME: a cross-scale constellation of CubeSats to explore magnetic reconnection in the solar--terrestrial relation. Frontiers in Physics, (8), 89.
  • Kolst\o, H\aakon Midthun, Hesse, M., Norgren, C., Tenfjord, P., Spinnangr, Susanne Fl\o, & Kwagala, N, (2020). Collisionless magnetic reconnection in an asymmetric oxygen density configuration. Geophysical Research Letters, 1(47), e2019GL085359.
  • Norgren, C., Hesse, M., Graham, D. B., Khotyaintsev, Y. V., Tenfjord, P., Vaivads, A., Steinvall, K., Xu, Y., Gershman, D., Lindqvist, P., & other, (2020). Electron acceleration and thermalization at magnetotail separatrices. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 4(125), e2019JA027440.
  • Burch, J., Webster, J., Hesse, M., Genestreti, K., Denton, R., Phan, T., Hasegawa, H., Cassak, P., Torbert, R., Giles, B., & other, (2020). Electron inflow velocities and reconnection rates at Earth's magnetopause and magnetosheath. Geophysical Research Letters, 17(47), e2020GL089082.
  • Toledo-Redondo, S., Andr\'e, Mats, Aunai, N., Chappell, C. R., Dargent, J\'er\'emy, Fuselier, S. A., Glocer, A., Graham, D. B., Haaland, S., Hesse, M., & other, (2020). Impacts of ionospheric plasma on magnetic reconnection and Earth's magnetosphere dynamics.
  • Tenfjord, P., Hesse, M., Norgren, C., Spinnangr, S., Kolst\o, H, & Kwagala, N, (2020). Interaction of cold streaming protons with the reconnection process. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 6(125), e2019JA027619.
  • Wang, S., Chen, L., Bessho, N., Hesse, M., Wilson, III, L. B., Denton, R., Ng, J., Giles, B., Torbert, R., & Burch, J, (2020). Ion-scale current structures in short large-amplitude magnetic structures. The Astrophysical Journal, 2(898), 121.
  • Hesse, M., & Cassak, P, (2020). Magnetic reconnection in the space sciences: Past, present, and future. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 2(125), e2018JA025935.
  • Hasegawa, H., Denton, R., Genestreti, K., Nakamura, T., Phan, T., Nakamura, R., Hwang, K., Ahmadi, N., Shi, Q., Hesse, M., & other, (2020). Magnetic-field annihilation and island formation in electron-scale current sheet in Earth's magnetotail.
  • Kolst\o, H\aakon Midthun, Hesse, M., Norgren, C., Tenfjord, P., Spinnangr, Susanne Fl\o, & Kwagala, N, (2020). On the impact of a streaming oxygen population on collisionless magnetic reconnection. Geophysical Research Letters, 22(47), e2020GL089462.
  • Borovsky, J. E., Delzanno, G. L., Valdivia, J. A., Moya, P. S., Stepanova, M., Birn, J., Blum, L. W., Lotko, W., & Hesse, M, (2020). Outstanding questions in magnetospheric plasma physics: The pollenzo view. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, (208), 105377.
  • Huang, K., Liu, Y., Lu, Q., & Hesse, M, (2020). Scaling of magnetic reconnection with a limited X-line extent. Geophysical Research Letters, 19(47), e2020GL088147.
  • Birn, J., Borovsky, J., Hesse, M., & Kepko, L, (2020). Substorm current wedge: energy conversion and current diversion. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 8(125), e2020JA028073.
  • Liu, Y., Lin, S., Hesse, M., Guo, F., Li, X., Zhang, H., & Peery, S, (2020). The critical role of collisionless plasma energization on the structure of relativistic magnetic reconnection. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 1(892), L13.
  • Li, T. C., Liu, Y., Hesse, M., & Zou, Y, (2020). Three-dimensional x-line spreading in asymmetric magnetic reconnection. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 2(125), e2019JA027094.
  • Kwagala, N. K., Hesse, M., Moretto, T., Tenfjord, P., Norgren, C., T\'oth, Gabor, Gombosi, T., Kolst\o, H\aakon M, & Spinnangr, S. F, (2020). Validating the space weather modeling framework (SWMF) for applications in northern Europe-ground magnetic perturbation validation. Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate, (10), 33.
  • Opgenoorth, H. J., Wimmer-Schweingruber, R. F., Belehaki, A., Berghmans, D., Hapgood, M., Hesse, M., Kauristie, K., Lester, M., Lilensten, J., Messerotti, M., & other, (2019). Assessment and recommendations for a consolidated European approach to space weather--as part of a global space weather effort. Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate, (9), A37.
  • Bessho, N., Chen, L., Wang, S., & Hesse, M, (2019). Effects of the guide field on electron distribution functions in the diffusion region of asymmetric reconnection. Physics of Plasmas, 8(26).
  • Chen, L., Wang, S., Hesse, M., Ergun, R., Moore, T., Giles, B., Bessho, N., Russell, C., Burch, J., Torbert, R., & other, (2019). Electron diffusion regions in magnetotail reconnection under varying guide fields. Geophysical Research Letters, 12(46), 6230--6238.
  • Hesse, M., Norgren, C., Tenfjord, P., Burch, J., Liu, Y., Chen, L., Bessho, N., Wang, S., Nakamura, R., Eastwood, J., & other, (2019). Erratum:“On the role of separatrix instabilities in heating the reconnection outflow region”[Phys. Plasmas 25, 122902 (2018)] Physics of Plasmas, 4(26).
  • Wang, S., Chen, L., Bessho, N., Hesse, M., Giles, B. L., & Moore, T. E, (2019). Ion behaviors in the reconnection diffusion region of a corrugated magnetotail current sheet. Geophysical Research Letters, 10(46), 5014--5020.
  • Bessho, N., Chen, L., Wang, S., Hesse, M., & Wilson, III, L, (2019). Magnetic reconnection in a quasi-parallel shock: Two-dimensional local particle-in-cell simulation. Geophysical Research Letters, 16(46), 9352--9361.
  • Ergun, R. E., Hoilijoki, S., Ahmadi, N., Schwartz, S. J., Wilder, F. D., Drake, J., Hesse, M., Shay, M., Ji, H., Yamada, M., & other, (2019). Magnetic reconnection in three dimensions: Modeling and analysis of electromagnetic drift waves in the adjacent current sheet. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 12(124), 10085--10103.
  • Wang, S., Chen, L., Bessho, N., Hesse, M., Wilson, III, L. B., Giles, B., Moore, T. E., Russell, C. T., Torbert, R. B., & Burch, J. L, (2019). Observational evidence of magnetic reconnection in the terrestrial bow shock transition region. Geophysical Research Letters, 2(46), 562--570.
  • Hesse, M., Norgren, C., Tenfjord, P., Burch, J., Liu, Y., Chen, L., Bessho, N., Wang, S., Nakamura, R., Eastwood, J., & other, (2019). On the role of separatrix instabilities in heating the reconnection outflow region (vol 25, 122902, 2018) PHYSICS OF PLASMAS, 4(26).
  • Jarrett, J., King, M. T., Gray, R., Neumann, N., D\"ohl, L, Baird, C., Ebert, T., Hesse, M., Tebartz, A., Rusby, D., & other, (2019). Reflection of intense laser light from microstructured targets as a potential diagnostic of laser focus and plasma temperature. High Power Laser Science and Engineering, (7), e2.
  • Tenfjord, P., Hesse, M., Norgren, C., Spinnangr, S., & Kolst\o, , (2019). The impact of oxygen on the reconnection rate. Geophysical Research Letters, 12(46), 6195--6203.
  • Eastwood, J., Nakamura, R., Turc, L., Mejnertsen, L., & Hesse, M, (2019). The Scientific Foundations of Forecasting Magnetospheric Space Weather. The Scientific Foundation of Space Weather, (67), 339--370.
  • Liu, Y., Li, T. C., Hesse, M., Sun, W., Liu, J., Burch, J., Slavin, J. A., & Huang, K, (2019). Three-dimensional magnetic reconnection with a spatially confined X-line extent: Implications for dipolarizing flux bundles and the dawn-dusk asymmetry. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 4(124), 2819--2830.
  • Liu, Y., Li, T., Hesse, M., Sun, W., Liu, J., Burch, J., Slavin, J., & Huang, K, (2019). Three\^a Dimensional Magnetic Reconnection With a Spatially Confined X\^a Line Extent: Implications for Dipolarizing Flux Bundles and the Dawn\^a Dusk Asymmetry.
  • Bessho, N., Chen, L., Wang, S., & Hesse, M, (2018). Effect of the reconnection electric field on electron distribution functions in the diffusion region of magnetotail reconnection. Geophysical Research Letters, 22(45), 12--142.
  • Torbert, R., Burch, J., Phan, T., Hesse, M., Argall, M., Shuster, J., Ergun, R., Alm, L., Nakamura, R., Genestreti, K., & other, (2018). Electron-scale dynamics of the diffusion region during symmetric magnetic reconnection in space. Science, 6421(362), 1391--1395.
  • Wang, S., Chen, L., Bessho, N., Hesse, M., Yoo, J., Yamada, M., Liu, Y., Gershman, D. J., Giles, B. L., & Moore, T. E, (2018). Energy conversion and partition in the asymmetric reconnection diffusion region. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 10(123), 8185--8205.
  • Moretto, T., Hesse, M., Vennerstr\om, S, & Tenfjord, P, (2018). Estimating the rate of cessation of magnetospheric activity in ampere field-aligned currents. Geophysical Research Letters, 23(45), 12--713.
  • Tenfjord, P., \Ostgaard, Nikolai, Haaland, S., Snekvik, K., Laundal, K., Reistad, J., Strangeway, R., Milan, S., Hesse, M., & Ohma, A, (2018). How the IMF By induces a local By component during northward IMF Bz and characteristic timescales. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 5(123), 3333--3348.
  • Cassak, P., Liang, H., Argall, M., Delzanno, G. L., Dorelli, J., Drake, J., Hesse, M., Matthaeus, W., Phan, T., Roytershteyn, V., & other, (2018). Kinetic Entropy as a Diagnostic in Particle-in-Cell Simulations. Solar Heliospheric and INterplanetary Environment (SHINE 2018), 28.
  • Friis-Christensen, E., Finlay, C., Hesse, M., & Laundal, K, (2018). Magnetic Field Perturbations from Currents in the Dark Polar Regions During Quiet Geomagnetic Conditions. Earth's Magnetic Field, (60), 289--305.
  • Ergun, R., Goodrich, K., Wilder, V., Ahmadi, N., Holmes, J., Eriksson, S., Stawarz, J., Nakamura, R., Genestreti, K., Hesse, M., & other, (2018). Magnetic reconnection, turbulence, and particle acceleration: Observations in the Earth's magnetotail. Geophysical Research Letters, 8(45), 3338--3347.
  • Nakamura, T. K., Genestreti, K., Liu, Y., Nakamura, R., Teh, W., Hasegawa, H., Daughton, W., Hesse, M., Torbert, R., Burch, J., & other, (2018). Measurement of the magnetic reconnection rate in the Earth's magnetotail. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 11(123), 9150--9168.
  • Genestreti, K. J., Varsani, A., Burch, J. L., Cassak, P. A., Torbert, R. B., Nakamura, R., Ergun, R. E., Phan, T., Toledo-Redondo, S., Hesse, M., & other, (2018). MMS observation of asymmetric reconnection supported by 3-D electron pressure divergence. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 3(123), 1806--1821.
  • Hesse, M., Phan, T., Burch, J., Torbert, R., Chen, L., Norgren, C., Tenfjord, P., & Liu, Y, (2018). MMS tests theories of magnetic reconnection. 42nd COSPAR Scientific Assembly, (42), D3--2.
  • Birn, J., Chandler, M., Hesse, M., Runov, A., & other, (2018). Modeling of tail processes: particle acceleration in dipolarization fronts. 42nd COSPAR Scientific Assembly, (42), D3--2.
  • Liu, Y., Hesse, M., Cassak, P., Shay, M., Wang, S., & Chen, L, (2018). On the collisionless asymmetric magnetic reconnection rate. Geophysical Research Letters, 8(45), 3311--3318.
  • Hesse, M., Norgren, C., Tenfjord, P., Burch, J., Liu, Y., Chen, L., Bessho, N., Wang, S., Nakamura, R., Eastwood, J., & other, (2018). On the role of separatrix instabilities in heating the reconnection outflow region. Physics of Plasmas, 12(25).
  • Liu, Y., Hesse, M., Li, T. C., Kuznetsova, M., & Le, A, (2018). Orientation and stability of asymmetric magnetic reconnection X line. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 6(123), 4908--4920.
  • Bessho, N., Chen, L., Wang, S., & Hesse, M, (2018). PIC simulation data for" Effect of the reconnection electric field on electron distribution functions in the diffusion region of magnetotail reconnection".
  • Liu, Y., Hesse, M., Guo, F., Li, H., & Nakamura, T, (2018). Strongly localized magnetic reconnection by the super-Alfv\'enic shear flow. Physics of plasmas, 8(25).
  • Hesse, M., Liu, Y., Chen, L., Bessho, N., Wang, S., Burch, J., Moretto, T., Norgren, C., Genestreti, K., Phan, T., & other, (2018). The physical foundation of the reconnection electric field. Physics of Plasmas, 3(25).
  • Hesse, M., Norgren, C., Tenfjord, P., Liu, Y., Chen, Li J, Bessho, N., Wang, S., Burch, J. L., & Torbert, R. B, (2018). What do we know about the inner workings of the reconnection diffusion region? 2018 Triennial Earth-Sun Summit (TESS), 200--03.
  • Birn, J., Battaglia, M., Fletcher, L., Hesse, M., & Neukirch, T, (2017). Can substorm particle acceleration be applied to solar flares? The Astrophysical Journal, 2(848), 116.
  • Chen, L., Hesse, M., Wang, S., Gershman, D., Ergun, R., Burch, J., Bessho, N., Torbert, R., Giles, B., Webster, J., & other, (2017). Electron diffusion region during magnetopause reconnection with an intermediate guide field: Magnetospheric multiscale observations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 5(122), 5235--5246.
  • Friis-Christensen, E., Finlay, C., Hesse, M., & Laundal, K, (2017). Magnetic field perturbations from currents in the dark polar regions during quiet geomagnetic conditions. Space Science Reviews, 1(206), 281--297.
  • Genestreti, K., Varsani, A., Burch, J., Cassak, P., Torbert, R., Nakamura, R., Ergun, R., Phan, T., Toledo-Redondo, S., Hesse, M., & other, (2017). MMS observation of asymmetric electron-scale reconnection driven by 3-D electron pressure divergence. arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.08262.
  • Wang, S., Chen, L., Hesse, M., Wilson, III, L. B., Bessho, N., Gershman, D. J., Ergun, R. E., Phan, T. D., Burch, J. L., Dorelli, J. C., & other, (2017). Parallel electron heating in the magnetospheric inflow region. Geophysical Research Letters, 10(44), 4384--4392.
  • Hesse, M., Chen, L., Liu, Y., Bessho, N., & Burch, J, (2017). Population mixing in asymmetric magnetic reconnection with a guide field. Physical review letters, 14(118), 145101.
  • Bessho, N., Chen, L., Hesse, M., & Wang, S, (2017). The effect of reconnection electric field on crescent and U-shaped distribution functions in asymmetric reconnection with no guide field. Physics of Plasmas, 7(24).
  • Eastwood, J., Nakamura, R., Turc, L., Mejnertsen, L., & Hesse, M, (2017). The scientific foundations of forecasting magnetospheric space weather. Space Science Reviews, 3(212), 1221--1252.
  • Liu, Y., Hesse, M., Guo, F., Daughton, W., Li, H., Cassak, P., & Shay, M, (2017). Why does steady-state magnetic reconnection have a maximum local rate of order 0.1? Physical Review Letters, 8(118), 085101.
  • Liu, Y., Hesse, M., Guo, F., Daughton, W., & Li, H, (2016). A model of global magnetic reconnection rate in relativistic collisionless plasmas. arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.05654.
  • Bessho, N., Chen, L., & Hesse, M, (2016). Electron distribution functions in the diffusion region of asymmetric magnetic reconnection. Geophysical Research Letters, 5(43), 1828--1836.
  • Chen, L., Hesse, M., Wang, S., Bessho, N., & Daughton, W, (2016). Electron energization and structure of the diffusion region during asymmetric reconnection. Geophysical Research Letters, 6(43), 2405--2412.
  • Dargent, J\'er\'emy, Aunai, N., Belmont, G\'erard, Dorville, N., Lavraud, B., & Hesse, M, (2016). Full particle-in-cell simulations of kinetic equilibria and the role of the initial current sheet on steady asymmetric magnetic reconnection. Journal of Plasma Physics, 3(82), 905820305.
  • Burch, J., Russell, C., Ergun, R., Phan, T., Hesse, M., Eastwood, J., Giles, B., Moore, T., Chen, L., Torbert, R., & other, (2016). Investigation of magnetic reconnection at the Earth's magnetopause using data from the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission. 41st COSPAR Scientific Assembly, (41), D3--1.
  • Wang, S., Chen, L., Hesse, M., Gershman, D. J., Dorelli, J., Giles, B., Torbert, R. B., Pollock, C. J., Lavraud, B., Strangeway, R., & other, (2016). Ion demagnetization in the magnetopause current layer observed by MMS. Geophysical Research Letters, 10(43), 4850--4857.
  • Birn, J., & Hesse, M, (2016). Modeling of tail processes. 41st COSPAR Scientific Assembly, (41), D3--1.
  • Wendel, D. E., Hesse, M., Bessho, N., Adrian, M., & Kuznetsova, M, (2016). Nongyrotropic electrons in guide field reconnection. Physics of Plasmas, 2(23).
  • Burch, J., Russell, C., Ergun, R., Phan, T., Hesse, M., Eastwood, J., Giles, B., Moore, T., Chen, L., Torbert, R., & other, (2016). Observations of reconnection and turbulence at the magnetopause with MMS. 41st COSPAR Scientific Assembly, (41), D2--4.
  • Hesse, M., Liu, Y., Chen, L., Bessho, N., Kuznetsova, M., Birn, J., & Burch, J. L, (2016). On the electron diffusion region in asymmetric reconnection with a guide magnetic field. Geophysical Research Letters, 6(43), 2359--2364.
  • Aunai, N., Hesse, M., Lavraud, B., Dargent, J\'er\'emy, & Smets, R, (2016). Orientation of the X-line in asymmetric magnetic reconnection. Journal of Plasma Physics, 4(82), 535820401.
  • Birn, J., Schindler, K., & Hesse, M, (2012). Magnetotail aurora connection: the role of thin current sheets. Auroral Phenomenology and Magnetospheric Processes: Earth And Other Planets, (197), 337--346.
  • Birn, J., Gosling, J. T., Hesse, M., Forbes, T. G., & Priest, E. R, (2000). Simulations of three-dimensional reconnection in the solar corona. The Astrophysical Journal, 2(541), 1078--1095.
  • Kuznetsova, M. M., Hesse, M., & Winske, D, (2000). Toward a transport model of collisionless magnetic reconnection. Journal of geophysical research: Space physics, A4(105), 7601--7616.
  • Slavin, J., Hesse, M., Owen, C., Taguchi, S., Fairfield, D., Lepping, R., Kokubun, S., Mukai, T., Lui, A., Anderson, R., & other, (1999). Dual spacecraft observations of lobe magnetic field perturbations before, during and after plasmoid release. Geophysical research letters, 19(26), 2897--2900.
  • Birn, J., Hesse, M., Haerendel, G., Baumjohann, W., & Shiokawa, K, (1999). Flow braking and the substorm current wedge. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, A9(104), 19895--19903.
  • Rast\"atter, L, Hesse, M., & Schindler, K, (1999). Hall-MHD modeling of near-Earth magnetotail current sheet thinning and evolution. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, A6(104), 12301--12311.
  • Rast\"atter, L, & Hesse, M, (1999). Patchy reconnection and evolution of multiple plasmoids in the Earth's magnetotail: Effects on near-Earth current system. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, A11(104), 25011--25020.
  • Baumjohann, W., Hesse, M., Kokubun, S., Mukai, T., Nagai, T., & Petrukovich, A, (1999). Substorm dipolarization and recovery. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, A11(104), 24995--25000.
  • Hesse, M, (1999). The Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) NSF Award Number 9909921. Directorate for Geosciences, 9909921(99), 9921.
  • Hesse, M., Schindler, K., Birn, J., & Kuznetsova, M, (1999). The diffusion region in collisionless magnetic reconnection. Physics of Plasmas, 5(6), 1781--1795.
  • Hesse, M., Birn, J., & Kuznetsova, M, (1999). The Onset of Magnetic Reconnection in Tail-Like Equilibria.
  • Klimas, A., Vassiliadis, D., Valdivia, J., Baker, D., & Hesse, M, (1999). The Role of Self-Organized Criticality in the Substorm Phenomenon and its Relation to Localized Reconnection in the Plasma Sheet.
  • Baker, D., Pulkkinen, T., Hesse, M., & McPherron, R, (1998). A quantitative assessment of energy storage and release in the Earth's magnetotail. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, A8(103), 17733--17734.
  • Hesse, M., & Winske, D, (1998). Electron dissipation in collisionless magnetic reconnection. Journal of geophysical research: Space physics, A11(103), 26479--26486.
  • Hesse, M., Birn, J., & Winske, D, (1998). Formation and structure of thin current sheets in the magnetotail: Dipolarization. Substorms-4, (238), 727.
  • Birn, J., Hesse, M., & Schindler, K, (1998). Formation of thin current sheets in space plasmas. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, A4(103), 6843--6852.
  • Kuznetsova, M. M., Hesse, M., & Winske, D, (1998). Kinetic quasi-viscous and bulk flow inertia effects in collisionless magnetotail reconnection. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, A1(103), 199--213.
  • Mitchell, D., Funsten, H., Gruntman, M., Hesse, M., Mauk, B., Meier, R., McComas, D., Roelof, E., & Scime, E, (1998). Multi-point magnetospheric reconnaisance imaging: Visualization of ion dynamics, evolution, origins, and structure. Science closure and enabling technologies for constellation class missions, 44--50.
  • Hesse, M., & Birn, J, (1998). Neutral atom imaging of the plasma sheet: Fluxes and instrument requirements. Measurement Techniques in Space Plasmas: Fields, (103), 297--304.
  • Hesse, M., Winske, D., & Birn, J, (1998). On the ion-scale structure of thin current sheets in the magnetotail. Physica Scripta, T74(1998), 63--66.
  • Hesse, M., Winske, D., Birn, J., & Kuznetsova, M, (1998). Predictions and explanations of plasma sheet dissipation processes: Current sheet kinking. Substorms-4, (238), 437.
  • Hesse, M, (1998). SUBSTORM EFFECTS IN MHD AND TEST PARTICLE SIMULATIONS OF MAGNETOTAIL DYNAMICS.
  • Birn, J., Thomsen, M., Borovsky, J., Reeves, G., McComas, D., Belian, R., & Hesse, M, (1998). Substorm electron injections: Geosynchronous observations and test particle simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, A5(103), 9235--9248.
  • Rast\"atter, L, Hesse, M., & Dreher, J, (1998). Three-Dimensional Hall-MHD Simulations of the Formation and Structure of Thin Current Sheets in the Magnetotail. Substorms-4, (238), 409.
  • Baker, D. N., Pulkkinen, T., Hesse, M., & McPherron, R. L, (1997). A quantitative assessment of energy storage and release in the Earth's magnetotail. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, A4(102), 7159--7168.
  • Hesse, M., Birn, J., & Hoffman, R. A, (1997). On the mapping of ionospheric convection into the magnetosphere. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, A5(102), 9543--9551.
  • Birn, J., Thomsen, M., Borovsky, J., Reeves, G., McComas, D., Belian, R., & Hesse, M, (1997). Substorm ion injections: Geosynchronous observations and test particle orbits in three-dimensional dynamic MHD fields. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, A2(102), 2325--2341.
  • Birn, J., Hesse, M., & Schindler, K, (1997). Theory of magnetic reconnection in three dimensions. Advances in Space Research, 12(19), 1763--1771.
  • Birn, J., Iinoya, F., Brackbill, J., & Hesse, M, (1996). A comparison of MHD simulations of magnetotail dynamics. Geophysical research letters, 4(23), 323--326.
  • Hesse, M., Birn, J., Kuznetsova, M. M., & Dreher, J\"urge, (1996). A simple model of core field generation during plasmoid evolution. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, A5(101), 10797--10804.
  • Lepping, R. P., Slavin, J. A., Hesse, M., Jones, J. A., & Szabo, A, (1996). Analysis of magnetotail flux ropes with strong core fields: ISEE 3 observations. Journal of geomagnetism and geoelectricity, 5-6(48), 589--601.
  • Birn, J., & Hesse, M, (1996). Details of current disruption and diversion in simulations of magnetotail dynamics. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, A7(101), 15345--15358.
  • Hesse, M., Winske, D., Kuznetsova, M., Birn, J., & Schindler, K, (1996). Hybrid modeling of the formation of thin current sheets in magnetotail configurations. Journal of geomagnetism and geoelectricity, 5-6(48), 749--763.
  • Kuznetsova, M. M., Hesse, M., & Winske, D, (1996). Ion dynamics in a hybrid simulation of magnetotail reconnection. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, A12(101), 27351--27373.
  • Birn, J., Hesse, M., & Schindler, K, (1996). MHD simulations of magnetotail dynamics. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, A6(101), 12939--12954.
  • Hesse, M., Birn, J., Baker, D. N., & Slavin, J. A, (1996). MHD simulations of the transition of magnetic reconnection from closed to open field lines. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, A5(101), 10805--10816.
  • Hesse, M, (1995). A model for plasmoid core field formation. EOS Trans. AGU, (76), 46.
  • Hesse, M., Winske, D., & Kuznetsova, M. M, (1995). Hybrid modeling of collisionless reconnection in two-dimensional current sheets: Simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, A11(100), 21815--21825.
  • Kuznetsova, M. M., Hesse, M., & Winske, D, (1995). Hybrid modeling of the tearing instability in collisionless two-dimensional current sheets: Linear theory. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, A11(100), 21827--21833.
  • Slavin, J., Owen, C., Kuznetsova, M., & Hesse, M, (1995). ISEE 3 observations of plasmoids with flux rope magnectic topologies. Geophysical Research Letters, 15(22), 2061--2064.
  • Birn, J., Gary, S. P., & Hesse, M, (1995). Microscale anisotropy reduction and macroscale dynamics of the magnetotail. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, A10(100), 19211--19220.
  • Gosling, J., Birn, J., McComas, D., Phillips, J., & Hesse, M, (1995). Open and disconnected magnetic field lines within coronal mass ejections in the solar wind: Evidence for 3-dimensional reconnection. Solar Wind Eight, 46.
  • Hesse, M, (1995). The magnetotail's role in magnetospheric dynamics: Engine or exhaust pipe. Reviews of Geophysics, S1(33), 675--683.
  • Birn, J., Hesse, M., & Gary, S. P, (1995). The role of microprocesses in macroscale magnetotail dynamics. Cross-Scale Coupling in Space Plasmas, (93), 275--285.
  • Gosling, J. T., Birn, J., & Hesse, M, (1995). Three-Dimensional Magnetic Reconnection and the Magnetic Topology of Coronal Mass Ejection Events. Geophysical Research Letters.
  • Hesse, M, (1995). Three-Dimensional Magnetic Reconnection in Space-and Astrophysical Plasmas and its Consequences for Particle Acceleration. Reviews in Modern Astronomy, v. 8,(1995), p. 323-348., (8), 323--348.
  • Slavin, J., Owen, C., & Hesse, M, (1994). Evolution of the plasmoid-lobe interaction with downtail distance. Geophysical research letters, 24(21), 2765--2768.
  • Winske, D., & Hesse, M, (1994). Hybrid modeling of magnetic reconnection in space plasmas. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 1-3(77), 268--275.
  • Hesse, M., & Winske, D, (1994). Hybrid simulations of collisionless reconnection in current sheets. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, A6(99), 11177--11192.
  • Birn, J., & Hesse, M, (1994). Influence of plasma sheet thickening toward the tail flanks on magnetotail stability and dynamics. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, A4(99), 5847--5853.
  • Birn, J., Schindler, K., Janicke, L., & Hesse, M, (1994). Magnetotail dynamics under isobaric constraints. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, A8(99), 14863--14875.
  • Hesse, M., & Birn, J, (1994). MHD modeling of magnetotail instability for localized resistivity. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, A5(99), 8565--8576.
  • Schr\"oer, A, Neukirch, T., Kiessling, M., Hesse, M., & Schindler, K, (1994). Numerical bifurcation study of a nonlinear current sheet model. Physics of plasmas, 1(1), 213--215.
  • Birn, J., & Hesse, M, (1994). Particle acceleration in the dynamic magnetotail: Orbits in self-consistent three-dimensional MHD fields. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, A1(99), 109--119.
  • Neukirch, T., & Hesse, M, (1993). Bifurcation analysis of a simple analytic model of self-propagating star formation. Astrophysical Journal-Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 411, no. 2, p. 840-847., (411), 840--847.
  • Hesse, M., & Winske, D, (1993). Hybrid simulations of collisionless ion tearing. Geophysical research letters, 12(20), 1207--1210.
  • Hesse, M., Smith, M. F., Herrero, F. A., Ghielmetti, A. G., Shelley, E. G., Wurz, P., Bochsler, P. A., Gallagher, D. L., Moore, T. E., & Stephen, T. S, (1993). Imaging ion outflow in the high-latitude magnetosphere using low-energy neutral atoms. Optical Engineering, 12(32), 3153--3160.
  • Hesse, M., & Birn, J, (1993). On the energy budget in the current disruption region. Geophysical research letters, 14(20), 1451--1454.
  • Hesse, M., & Birn, J, (1993). Parallel electric fields as acceleration mechanisms in three-dimensional magnetic reconnection. Advances in space research, 4(13), 249--252.
  • Birn, J., & Hesse, M, (1993). Particle acceleration in a MHD simulation of magnetotail dynamics. Advances in Space Research, 4(13), 245--248.
  • Hesse, M., & Birn, J, (1993). Three-dimensional magnetotail equilibria by numerical relaxation techniques. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, A3(98), 3973--3982.
  • Birn, J., Hesse, M., & Schindler, K, (1993). What determines the latitudinal extent of the auroral acceleration region? Journal of atmospheric and terrestrial physics, 8(55), 1171--1184.
  • Birn, J., & Hesse, M, (1992). Magnetotail instability. ESA, Substorms 1.
  • Hesse, M., & Birn, J, (1992). MHD modeling of magnetotail instability for anisotropic pressure. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, A7(97), 10643--10654.
  • Hesse, M., & Birn, J, (1992). Relative timing of substorm features in MHD simulations. ESA, Substorms 1.
  • Inhester, B., Birn, J., & Hesse, M, (1992). The evolution of line-tied coronal arcades including a converging footpoint motion. Solar physics, 2(138), 257--281.
  • Hesse, M., & Birn, J, (1992). Three-dimensional MHD modeling of magnetotail dynamics for different polytropic indices. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, A4(97), 3965--3976.
  • Schindler, K., Hesse, M., & Birn, J, (1991). Magnetic field-aligned electric potentials in nonideal plasma flows. Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 380, Oct. 10, 1991, p. 293-301. Research supported by DFG, DOE, and NASA., (380), 293--301.
  • Hesse, M., & Birn, J, (1991). Magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling during plasmoid evolution: First results. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, A7(96), 11513--11522.
  • Birn, J., & Hesse, M, (1991). MHD simulations of magnetic reconnection in a skewed three-dimensional tail configuration. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, A1(96), 23--34.
  • Hesse, M., & Birn, J, (1991). On dipolarization and its relation to the substorm current wedge. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, A11(96), 19417--19426.
  • Hesse, M., & Birn, J, (1991). Plasmoid evolution in an extended magnetotail. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, A4(96), 5683--5696.
  • Hesse, M., & Birn, J, (1991). Progress in the Study of Three-Dimensional Plasmoids. Modeling Magnetospheric Plasma Processes, (62), 55--70.
  • Hesse, M, (1991). Recent developments in the theory of three-dimensional magnetic reconnection. Advances in Solar System Magnetohydrodynamics, 221.
  • Birn, J., & Hesse, M, (1991). The substorm current wedge and field-aligned currents in MHD simulations of magnetotail reconnection. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, A2(96), 1611--1618.
  • Hesse, M., Birn, J., & Schindler, K, (1990). A self-consistent two-dimensional resistive fluid theory of field-aligned potential structures including charge separation and magnetic and velocity shear. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, A11(95), 18929--18938.
  • Otto, A., Hesse, M., & Schindler, K, (1990). General magnetic reconnection in 3D systems. Topological Fluid Mechanics, 225.
  • Hesse, M., & Birn, J, (1990). Magnetic reconnection in the magnetotail current sheet for varying cross-tail magnetic field. Geophysical research letters, 11(17), 2019--2022.
  • Hesse, M., Birn, J., & Schindler, K, (1990). On the topology of flux transfer events. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, A5(95), 6549--6560.
  • Hesse, M., & Birn, J, (1990). Parallel electric fields in a simulation of magnetotail reconnection and plasmoid evolution. Physics of Magnetic Flux Ropes, (58), 679--685.
  • Birn, J., & Hesse, M, (1990). The magnetic topology of the plasmoid flux rope in a MHD-simulation of magnetotail reconnection. Physics of Magnetic Flux Ropes, (58), 655--661.
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  • Hesse, M., & Schindler, K, (1989). Correction to “A theoretical foundation of general magnetic reconnection”. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, A4(94), 3808--3808.
  • Birn, J., Hesse, M., & Schindler, K, (1989). Filamentary structure of a three-dimensional plasmoid. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, A1(94), 241--251.
  • Hesse, M., Birn, J., & Schindler, K, (1989). Flux transfer events: Reconnection without separators. Reconnection in Space Plasma, (2), 263--268.
  • Birn, J., Hesse, M., & Schindler, K, (1989). Magnetotail reconnection, MHD theory and simulations. Reconnection in Space Plasma, (285), 217--221.
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  • Hesse, M., & Kiessling, M, (1987). The onset of eruptive processes in plasmas. I. The Physics of Fluids, 9(30), 2720--2728.
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