SM12B:
Physics of the Diffusion Region in Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection I

Session ID#: 3639

Monday, 15 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
2012 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Li-Jen Chen, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States and William S Daughton, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
Primary Convener:  Li-Jen Chen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Co-Convener:  William S Daughton, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Li-Jen Chen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • SH - SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics
Index Terms:

2723 Magnetic reconnection [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
7835 Magnetic reconnection [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
7845 Particle acceleration [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
7846 Plasma energization [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

SM12B-01
Local Diagnosis of Reconnection in 3D (Invited) (3248)
Jack D Scudder, Space Science Institute, Boulder, United States, Homayoun Karimabadi, Analytics Ventures, San Diego, CA, United States, William S Daughton, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States and Vadim Roytershteyn, Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States
SM12B-02
Electron Scale Signatures of Asymmetric Collisionless Reconnection Obtained from Particle-in-Cel Models. (Invited) (4039)
Nicolas Aunai, IRAP, Toulouse, France, Michael Hesse, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Maria M Kuznetsova, NASA/GSFC, Space Weather Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States and Benoit Lavraud, Laboratoire d'astrophysique de Bordeaux, Pessac, France
SM12B-03
Asymmetric Reconnection With a Guide Field: the Saga Continues (16489)
Michael Hesse, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Nicolas Aunai, IRAP, Toulouse, France, Yi-Hsin Liu, Dartmouth College, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hanover, NH, United States, Maria M Kuznetsova, NASA/GSFC, Space Weather Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States and Joachim Birn, Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, United States
SM12B-04
Electron Dynamics and Wave-Particle Interactions in the Reconnection Diffusion Region (Invited) (3977)
Yuri V Khotyaintsev1, Daniel Bruce Graham2, Henrik Viberg2, Andris Vaivads2, Andrey V Divin2 and Mats Andre2, (1)Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF), Uppsala, Sweden, (2)Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden
SM12B-05
"Smoking-Gun" Observables of Magnetic Reconnection: Spatiotemporal Evolution of Electron Characteristics Throughout the Diffusion Region (Invited) (3485)
Jason R Shuster1, Li-Jen Chen2, Naoki Bessho1, Guanlai Li1, Roy B Torbert3, Shan Wang1, Matthew R Argall1 and William S Daughton4, (1)Univ of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (2)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (3)Univ of New Hampshire and Southwest Research Institute, Durham, United States, (4)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
SM12B-06
Geotail observation of low frequency wave activity in a 3D structure of magnetotail reconnection site (21577)
Iku Shinohara, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Sagamihara, Japan, Hirotsugu Kojima, Kyoto University, Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto, Japan, Tsugunobu Nagai, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, Seiji Zenitani, NAOJ National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo, Japan and Masaki Fujimoto, ISAS/JAXA, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
SM12B-07
High-Frequency Fluctuations During Magnetic Reconnection (25456)
Jonathan Jara-Almonte1, Hantao Ji2, William S Daughton3, Vadim Roytershteyn4, Masaaki Yamada2, Jongsoo Yoo2 and William Fox2, (1)Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (4)Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States
SM12B-08
A Statistical View of the Effect of Density Asymmetry and Guide Field on the Structure of the Reconnection Layer Poleward of the Cusp (25682)
Fathima Muzleena Muzamil1, Charles J Farrugia2, Roy B Torbert1, Philip L Pritchett3, Forrest Mozer4, Jack D Scudder5, Christopher T Russell6, Per Even Sandholt7, William F Denig8 and Lynn B Wilson III9, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Space Science Institute, Boulder, United States, (6)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (7)University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, (8)National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
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