Current Sheets II

Thursday, 26 May 2016: 10:45 AM-12:30 PM
Primary Convener:  Brigitte Schmieder, Observatoire de Paris, LESIA, Meudon, France
10:45 AM
On the nature of 3D current layers in the solar atmosphere (Invited) (94570)
Clare E Parnell and Julie Stevenson, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom
11:25 AM
Evidence for the occurrence of a cylindrical current sheet over the South Pole of the Sun (94499)
Olga Khabarova, IZMIRAN RAS, Moscow, Russia, Roman Anatolevich Kislov, Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI), Plasma Physics, Moscow, Russia and Helmi V Malova, Scobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow, Russia
11:40 AM
Review on the Characteristics of the Plasma/Current Sheet of the Earth’s Magnetotail (Invited) (94283)
Anthony Lui, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
12:00 PM
Dynamics of the current sheet in Earth's magnetotail by the impact of an interplanetary shock (94510)
Ensang Lee1, George K Parks2, Naiguo Lin2 and Jinhy Hong1, (1)Kyung Hee University, School of Space Research, Yongin, South Korea, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
12:15 PM
Current Sheets in Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko's Coma (94363)
Martin Volwerk1, Geraint H Jones2, Andrew J Coates2, Ingo Richter3, Charlotte Goetz3, Thomas W Broiles4, Anders Eriksson5, Henri Pierre6, Hans Nilsson7 and Karl-Heinz Glassmeier3, (1)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, (2)University College London, Centre for Planetary Sciences (at UCL/Birkbeck), London, United Kingdom, (3)Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, (4)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (5)Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden, (6)CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, (7)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Kiruna, Kiruna, Sweden
 
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