SH41A:
Implications and Applications of Kappa Distributions in Space Plasma Physics I Posters

Session ID#: 3578

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  George Livadiotis, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, Ioannis Kourakis, Khalifa University of Science and technology, Mathematics, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and Jacob Heerikhuisen, U of AL/Huntsville-CSPAR, Huntsville, United States
Primary Convener:  George Livadiotis, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
Co-conveners:  Ioannis Kourakis, Khalifa University of Science and technology, Mathematics, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and Jacob Heerikhuisen, U of AL/Huntsville-CSPAR, Huntsville, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • NG - Nonlinear Geophysics
  • SA - SPA-Aeronomy
  • SM - SPA-Magnetospheric Physics
Index Terms:

7827 Kinetic and MHD theory [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
7829 Kinetic waves and instabilities [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
7836 MHD waves and instabilities [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
7845 Particle acceleration [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
SH41A-4114
Foundations of Statistical Mechanics in Space Plasmas (3586)
George Livadiotis, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
 
SH41A-4115
Implication of Kappa models in realistic parameterization of the kinetic anisotropy and the resulting instabilities in space plasmas (21481)
Stefaan Poedts, KU Leuven, Centre for mathematical Plasma-Astrophysics, Leuven, Belgium, Maria Lazar, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Mathematics/CmPA, Leuven, Belgium and Viviane Pierrard, Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium
 
SH41A-4116
Modelling of Electrostatic Solitary Waves and Shocks in Non-Maxwellian Plasmas: A Review of Recent Results (4108)
Ioannis Kourakis, Khalifa University of Science and technology, Mathematics, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Gina Williams, Centre for Plasma Physics, Belfast, United Kingdom, Sharmin Sultana, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh and Manfred Hellberg, University of Kwazulu Natal, School of Physics, Durban, South Africa
 
SH41A-4117
Whistler Cyclotron Electromagnetic Fluctuations in a Maxwellian and Tsallis-kappa-like Plasma (13792)
Adolfo F. Vinas, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Division, Geospace Physics Laboratory, Mail Code 673, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Pablo S Moya, University of Chile, Department of Physics, Santiago, Chile; Catholic University of America, Department of Physics, Washington, DC, United States, Roberto Navarro, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile and Jaime A Araneda, Univ. Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile
 
SH41A-4118
Whistler-cyclotron spontaneous fluctuations as a proxy to identify thermal and non-thermal electrons in the solar wind (12760)
Pablo S Moya, University of Chile, Department of Physics, Santiago, Chile; Catholic University of America, Department of Physics, Washington, DC, United States, Adolfo F. Vinas, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Division, Geospace Physics Laboratory, Mail Code 673, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Roberto Navarro, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile and Jaime A Araneda, Univ. Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile
 
SH41A-4119
Magnetic Alfvén-Cyclotron Fluctuations of Anisotropic Non-Thermal Plasmas (31016)
Roberto Navarro1, Victor Munoz2, Jaime A Araneda1, Adolfo F. Vinas3, Pablo S Moya4 and Juan Alejandro Valdivia5, (1)Univ. Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile, (2)University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Division, Geospace Physics Laboratory, Mail Code 673, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of Chile, Department of Physics, Santiago, Chile, (5)University of Chile, Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, Santiago, Chile
 
SH41A-4121
Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron Waves in the Inner Magnetosphere with a Kappa-Maxwellian Proton Distribution (20197)
Satyavir Singh, Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, Upper Atmosphere, Navi Mumbai, India, Hajime Sugiyama, RISH Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto, Japan, Yoshiharu Omura, Kyoto University, Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto, Japan, Masafumi Shoji, ISAS/JAXA, Sagamihara, Japan, David Nunn, University of Southampton, School of Electronics and Computer Science, Southampton, United Kingdom and Danny Summers, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, NL, Canada
 
SH41A-4122
Ion-Acoustic Double-Layers in Plasmas with Nonthermal Electrons (31740)
Luciana Antunes Rios, Brazilian Center for Physics Research, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Ricardo Magnus Osório Galvão, USP University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
 
SH41A-4123
On the Ordinary mode Instability for Non-Extensive Anisotropic Distribution (20460)
Muhammad Fraz Bashir, Government College University Lahore, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Lahore, United States, Peter H Yoon, Univ Maryland, College Park, MD, United States and Ghulam Murtaza, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
 
SH41A-4124
Charging of Interstellar Dust Grains in the Out-of-Equilibrium Plasma of the Inner and Outer Heliosheath Regions (16600)
Priscilla C Frisch1, Maher A Dayeh2, Mihir Indrajit Desai2, Herbert O Funsten3, Jacob Heerikhuisen4, Paul H Janzen5, David J McComas6, George Livadiotis6, Keiichi Ogasawara2, Nikolai V Pogorelov4, Daniel Brett Reisenfeld5, Nathan Schwadron7, Jonathan D Slavin8 and Gary Paul Zank4, (1)University of Chicago, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Chicago, IL, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, ISR-DO, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Space Science, Huntsville, AL, United States, (5)University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States, (6)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (7)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, (8)Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
SH41A-4125
How Do κ-Distributed Protons in the Heliosheath Affect Energetic Neutral Atoms (3975)
Jacob Heerikhuisen1, Eric Zirnstein2 and Nikolai V Pogorelov1,3, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Department of Space Science, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)Princeton University, Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton, United States, (3)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Space Science, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
SH41A-4126
Suprathermal Tails in the Solar Wind and at Interplanetary Discontinuities (28097)
Mark Popecki1, Harald Kucharek1, Charles J Farrugia2, Antoinette Broe Galvin3 and Berndt Klecker4, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space & Department of Physics and Astronomy, Durham, NH, United States, (4)Max Planck Institut for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany
 
SH41A-4127
Suprathermal Ion Acceleration in Multiple Contracting and Reconnecting Inertial-scale Flux Ropes in the Supersonic Solar Wind. (29719)
Jakobus Albertus le Roux1, Gary Paul Zank1 and Gary M Webb2, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)University of Alabama in Huntsville, CSPAR, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
SH41A-4128
Numerical simulations of self-consistently generated κ distributions in the solar wind and solar corona (30249)
Brent M Randol, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Eric R Christian, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
SH41A-4129
On a few properties of very dilute matter frozen in space magnetic fields (12629)
Daniel Benjamin Berdichevsky, Berdichevsky Daniel B, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Kendric Schefers, Columbia University of New York, Lerner-Hall, Palisades, NY, United States
 
SH43C-05
Tsallis Distributions and the q-Triplet of the Magnetic Field in the Heliosheath (6487)
Leonard F Burlaga, Leonard F. Burlaga, Inc., Davidsonville, United States
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