SM42A:
Theory and Observation of Magnetic Reconnection in Complex Heliospheric and Magnetospheric Conditions II

Session ID#: 2748

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
2018 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  John Dorelli, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Prof. William H Matthaeus, University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States
Primary Convener:  Prof. William H Matthaeus, University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States
Co-conveners:  John Dorelli, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Michael A Shay, University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States and Marc Swisdak, University of Maryland, College Park, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Michael A Shay, University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • SH - SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics
Index Terms:

2134 Interplanetary magnetic fields [INTERPLANETARY PHYSICS]
2723 Magnetic reconnection [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
7526 Magnetic reconnection [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7835 Magnetic reconnection [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

SM42A-01
Generation of Alfvenic Waves and Turbulence in Magnetic Reconnection Jets (Invited) (15823)
Masahiro Hoshino, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
SM42A-02
Current Sheet Formation, Equilibria and Heating in the Closed Corona (Invited) (4533)
Antonio F Rappazzo, UCLA, Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States
SM42A-03
Magnetic reconnection in 3D magnetosphere models: magnetic separators and open flux production (Invited) (12857)
Alex Glocer, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, John Dorelli, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Gabor Toth, University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, Colin M Komar, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States and Paul Cassak, West Virginia University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Morgantown, United States
SM42A-04
Magnetic Reconnection and Intermittent Turbulence (Invited) (4754)
Kareem Osman1, Prof. William H Matthaeus2, Khurom Hussain Kiyani1, John T Gosling3, Sandra C Chapman4, Bogdan Hnat5, Antonella Greco6, Sergio Servidio7, Tai Phan8 and Yuri V Khotyaintsev9, (1)University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4, United Kingdom, (2)University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States, (3)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Warwick, Department of Physics, Coventry, CV4, United Kingdom, (5)University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, (6)Università della Calabria, Department of Physics, Rende, Italy, (7)Universita' della Calabria, Rende, Italy, (8)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (9)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
SM42A-05
Observations of Plasma Waves in the Colliding Jet Region of a 3D Magnetic Flux Rope Flanked by Two Active Reconnection X Lines at the Subsolar Magnetopause (13206)
Marit Oieroset, University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, David J Sundkvist, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Christopher Carew Chaston, University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Tai Phan, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, Forrest Mozer, University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, James P McFadden, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, Vassilis Angelopoulos, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, Laila Andersson, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States and Jonathan P Eastwood, Imperial College London, Physics, London, United Kingdom
SM42A-06
Magnetic Island Dynamics and Energy Dissipation in Multiple X-line Reconnection (22834)
Meng Zhou1, Ye Pang1, Xiaohua Deng1, Shiyong Huang2 and Xiangsheng Lai1, (1)Nanchang University, Nanchang, China, (2)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, Saint-Maur Des Fossés Cedex, France
SM42A-07
Asymmetric Reconnection at the Magnetopause Under the Presence of Low-Energy Ions of Magnetospheric Origin (12416)
Sergio Toledo Redondo1, Andris Vaivads2, Mats Andre3 and Yuri V Khotyaintsev3, (1)IRAP, Toulouse, France, (2)Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Space and Plasma Physics, Stockholm, Sweden, (3)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
SM42A-08
Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection in Partially Ionized Chromospheric Plasmas (10450)
Nicholas A Murphy, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, United States, Vyacheslav S Lukin, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States and John C Raymond, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, United States
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