SM44B:
Magnetic Reconnection and Its Universal Consequences in Magnetospheric and Solar Plasmas II

Session ID#: 3111

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
2018 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Pontus C Brandt, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States and Paul Cassak, West Virginia University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Morgantown, United States
Primary Convener:  Pontus C Brandt, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Co-conveners:  Brian J Anderson, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, Paul Cassak, West Virginia University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Morgantown, United States and Harry P Warren, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Pontus C Brandt, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • P - Planetary Sciences
  • SH - SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics
Index Terms:

2744 Magnetotail [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2756 Planetary magnetospheres [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
7509 Corona [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7835 Magnetic reconnection [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Thermal Structure and Dynamics in Supra-arcade Downflows and Flare Plasma Sheets (Invited) (2787)
Katharine Reeves1, Will Hanneman2,3, Michael Freed4 and David E McKenzie4, (1)Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Harvard-Smithsonain Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)The University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (4)Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States
Secondary Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities in the Reconnection Exhaust Jet: A Mechanism for Supra-Arcade Downflows in the Solar Corona (29458)
Lijia Guo1, Amitava Bhattacharjee2, Yi-Min Huang3 and Davina Innes1,4, (1)Max Planck Princeton Research Center for Plasma Physics, Solar Physics, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (4)Max Planck Insitute for Solar System Research, Solar Physics, Gottingen, Germany
Spontaneous Reconnection Onset in the Magnetotail: Kinetic and MHD Pictures (Invited) (3260)
Mikhail I Sitnov, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States and Viacheslav G Merkin, JHU/APL, Laurel, United States
Consequences of Kinetic Effects in Nonsymmetric Reconnection Configurations on Large-Scale Dynamical Processes in Magnetosphere and Solar Plasma (8311)
Maria M Kuznetsova, NASA/GSFC, Space Weather Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, Michael Hesse, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Nicolas Aunai, IRAP, Toulouse, France, Deirdre E Wendel, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Lutz Rastaetter, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Community Coordinated Modeling Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Alex Glocer, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States and Gabor Toth, University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States
In-situ observations of magnetic reconnection in the Jovian nightside magnetosphere (Invited) (3326)
Satoshi Kasahara, ISAS, JAXA, Sagamihara, Japan, Elena A Kronberg, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Gottingen, Germany, Tomoki Kimura, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Kanagawa, Japan, Chihiro Tao, IRAP, Toulouse, France, Sarah Victoria Badman, University of Lancaster, Lancaster, United Kingdom, Adam Masters, Imperial College London, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom, Alessandro Retino, Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS/Sorbonne Université/Univ. Paris Saclay/Obs. de Paris/ Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France, Norbert Krupp, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany and Masaki Fujimoto, JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan
The Impact of Plasmapheric Mass Loading on Dayside Reconnection (25254)
Jeremy Ouellette1,2, John Lyon2, Oliver Brambles3, Binzheng Zhang3, William Lotko4,5 and Michael James Wiltberger6, (1)Vermont Technical College, Department of Computer & Information Systems, Randolph Center, VT, United States, (2)Dartmouth College, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Hanover, NH, United States, (3)Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, United States, (5)Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, United States, (6)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
Comparative Examination of Reconnection-Driven Magnetotail Dynamics at Mercury and Earth (Invited) (2810)
James A Slavin, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States
Mercury's Plasma Mantle during Solar Wind Dynamical Pressure Enhancements (7291)
Dominique Delcourt, Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, Saint-Maur Des Fossés Cedex, France, Kanako Seki, University of Tokyo, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan, Naoki Terada, Tohoku University, Graduate School of Science, Sendai, Japan and Thomas Earle Moore, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, United States