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Publications
  1. Cassak, P. A., M. A. Shay, and J. F. Drake, A catastrophe model for fast magnetic reconnection onset, Physical Review Letters, submitted, can also be found at arXiv: physics/0502001
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  2. 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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  3. 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 Letters, In Press.
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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. Shay, M. A., The Dynamics of Collisionless, Magnetic Reconnection , Doctoral Thesis, University of Maryland, 1998.
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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. 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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