Magnetic Reconnection: Explosive Energy Conversion in Space Plasmas
暫譯: 磁重聯：太空等離子體中的爆炸性能量轉換

磁重聯是一種強大的能量轉換過程，無論在宇宙中的任何地方，只要存在磁化等離子體，就會發生。磁重聯的結果可能是壯觀的，同時也可能對技術系統和人類造成傷害，因為它包括極光、地磁風暴、太陽和恆星耀斑、能量粒子束以及無線電爆發。本書提供了基於最近太空船觀測和理論模擬的磁重聯及相關過程的當前理解的全面概述，並討論其天體物理背景。

本書回顧了我們對地球空間中磁重聯理解的進展，這些進展是通過最近前所未有的高時間解析度測量（來自MMS（磁層多尺度任務））和數值模擬實現的。各章節回顧了在最小尺度下（直到電子動力學尺度）重聯動力學的新發現，波和湍流在磁重聯中的多樣角色，以及對重聯宏觀後果的新見解。

本書還提供了磁重聯的廣泛背景，不僅限於地球空間，還包括整個太陽系和天體物理等離子體中的不同環境，以及實驗室等離子體。讀者將會發現這一動態研究領域的最新結果，以及包括太空船數據分析和模擬模型的各種方法的教程文章。

摘自期刊《太空科學評論》，專題集：「磁重聯：太空等離子體中的爆炸性能量轉換」

Dr. Rumi Nakamura is a group leader at the Space Research Institute (IWF), Austrian Academy of Sciences and Dozent (Lecturer) at University of Graz. Her research interests are plasma transport and acceleration in the magnetosphere, magnetic reconnection, substorm and storm dynamics. She received her doctorate degrees in geophysics from University of Tokyo. She is involved in several space plasma physics missions such as Cluster, DoubleStar, THEMIS as a Co-Investigator and in Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission leading the Active Spacecraft Potential Control (ASPOC) instrument. She was awarded the Tanakadate Award from the Society of Geomagnetism and Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences (SGEPSS) and the Julius-Bartels Medal from the European Geosciences Union (EGU). She is a Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU) and a Member of Austrian Academy of Sciences, International Academy of Astronautics, Academia Europaea and European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Dr. James L. Burch is an experimental space plasma physicist specializing in dynamical phenomena associated with the interaction of the solar wind with the magnetospheres of Earth, Saturn and comets. He received his PhD degree from Rice University. He was Principal Investigator of the NASA IMAGE mission, which was the first mission to conduct comprehensive multi-spectral imaging of the Earth's magnetosphere. He served as Principal Investigaor of the Ion and Electron Sensor for the European Space Agency Rosetta Comet Mission. His current research involves analysis of data from the NASA Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission, for which he serves as Science Principal Investigator. For MMS he designed a new generation plasma composition analyzer that greatly improves the accuracy of minor ion detection in space plasmas. With MMS data Dr. Burch has reported the first electron-scale measurements of magnetic reconnection in space, which have led to many transformational science results on reconnection by him and the many members of the MMS team. He currently is principal investigator for the Mass Spectrometer for Planetary Exploration (MASPEX) for the NASA Europa Clipper Mission. Dr. Burch is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and is a recipient of the AGU Fleming Medal and Bowie Medal as well as the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal.

中村瑠美博士是奧地利科學院太空研究所（IWF）的團隊領導者，並且是格拉茨大學的講師。她的研究興趣包括磁層中的等離子體傳輸與加速、磁重連、亞暴和風暴動力學。她在東京大學獲得地球物理學博士學位。她參與了多個太空等離子體物理任務，如Cluster、DoubleStar、THEMIS，擔任共同研究員，並在磁層多尺度（MMS）任務中負責主導主動太空船電位控制（ASPOC）儀器。她曾獲得地磁學與地球、行星及太空科學學會（SGEPSS）的田中達獎，以及歐洲地球科學聯合會（EGU）的朱利斯·巴特爾斯獎章。她是美國地球物理聯合會（AGU）的會士，並且是奧地利科學院、國際宇航學院、歐洲學院及歐洲科學與藝術學院的成員。

詹姆斯·L·伯奇博士是一位實驗性太空等離子體物理學家，專注於與太陽風與地球、土星及彗星的磁層互動相關的動態現象。他在萊斯大學獲得博士學位。他是NASA IMAGE任務的首席研究員，該任務是第一個對地球磁層進行全面多光譜成像的任務。他曾擔任歐洲太空局羅塞塔彗星任務的離子和電子傳感器的首席研究員。他目前的研究涉及對NASA磁層多尺度（MMS）任務數據的分析，並擔任科學首席研究員。在MMS中，他設計了一種新一代的等離子體成分分析儀，大大提高了在太空等離子體中對次要離子的檢測精度。利用MMS數據，伯奇博士報告了太空中磁重連的首個電子尺度測量，這為他和MMS團隊的許多成員帶來了許多變革性的科學成果。他目前是NASA Europa Clipper任務的行星探索質譜儀（MASPEX）的首席研究員。伯奇博士是美國地球物理聯合會的會士，並且是AGU弗萊明獎和鮑伊獎的獲得者，以及NASA傑出公共服務獎的獲得者。