SM51E:
Magnetospheres in the Solar System III Posters

Session ID#: 4357

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  George B Hospodarsky, University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States and Chris Paranicas, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, United States
Primary Convener:  Xianzhe Jia, University of Michigan, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States
Co-conveners:  Chris Paranicas, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States and George B Hospodarsky, University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Xianzhe Jia, University of Michigan, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • P - Planetary Sciences
Index Terms:

2756 Planetary magnetospheres [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2799 General or miscellaneous [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
5443 Magnetospheres [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5737 Magnetospheres [PLANETARY SCIENCES: FLUID PLANETS]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Solar Cycle Changes in the Position of the Intermediate Transition in the Venus Ionosheath. (7303)
Hector A Perez De Tejada1, Rickard N A Lundin2, Hector Javier Durand-Manterola1, Mauricio Reyes-Ruiz3, Stash Barabash2, Tielong Zhang4 and Jean-Andre Sauvaud5, (1)UNAM National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, (2)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Umeå, Umeå, Sweden, (3)UNAM, Ensenada, B.C., Mexico, (4)Space Research Institute, Graz, Austria, (5)IRAP/CNRS, Toulouse, France
 
Ion flows in Venus' magnetotail (16932)
Peter Kollmann, The Applied Physics Laboratory, John Hopkins University, Laurel, United States, Pontus C Brandt, APL, Laurel, MD, United States, Yoshifumi Futaana, IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Kiruna, Kiruna, Sweden and Andrei Fedorov, CNRS - Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Toulouse, France
 
First Observations of Mercury's Plasma Mantle As Seen By MESSENGER (7419)
Gina A DiBraccio1,2, James A Slavin3, Jim M Raines2, Daniel J Gershman1,4, Patrick Tracy5, Scott A Boardsen1,6, Thomas Zurbuchen5, Brian J Anderson7, Haje Korth8, Ralph L McNutt Jr8 and Sean C Solomon9,10, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (2)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States, (3)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (4)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (5)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (6)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, United States, (7)JHU/APL, Laurel, United States, (8)JHU/APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (9)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (10)Carnegie Institute of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States
 
MESSENGER Observations of Cusp Plasma Filaments at Mercury (10785)
Gangkai Poh1, James A Slavin2, Gina A DiBraccio3, Xianzhe Jia4, Jim M Raines5, Suzanne M Imber6, Brian J Anderson7, Haje Korth8, Daniel J Gershman9, Thomas Zurbuchen2, Ralph L McNutt Jr8 and Sean C Solomon10, (1)Catholic University of America, Dept. of Physics, Maryland, United States, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (4)University of Michigan, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (5)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States, (6)Radio and Space Plasma Physics, Leicester, United Kingdom, (7)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (8)The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Plasma Transport, Acceleration, and Loss in Mercury’s Magnetosphere and Comparison with Other Planetary Magnetospheres (7622)
David Schriver1, Pavel M Travnicek2, Brian J Anderson3, Maha Ashour-Abdalla4, Daniel N Baker5, Mehdi Benna6, Scott A Boardsen7, Petr Hellinger8, George C Ho9, Haje Korth10, Stamatios Mike Krimigis11, Ralph L McNutt Jr12, Jim M Raines13, Robert L Richard1, James A Slavin14, Richard D Starr15, Sean C Solomon16 and Thomas Zurbuchen14, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (4)UCLA-IGPP, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (7)NASA GSFC/UMBC, Greenbelt, United States, (8)Astronomical Institute, CAS, Ondrejov/Prague, Czech Republic, (9)Johns Hopkins Univ, Laurel, MD, United States, (10)JHU/APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (11)Academy of Athens, Space, Athens, Greece, (12)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Space Exploration Sector, Laurel, MD, United States, (13)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States, (14)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (15)Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, (16)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Altitude Distribution and Position of Auroral Density Cavities in the Auroral Acceleration Region (9245)
Love Alm1, Bin Li2, Goran Tage Marklund1 and Tomas Karlsson3, (1)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (2)IMSG, College Park, MD, United States, (3)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Division of Space and Plasma Physics, Stockholm, Sweden
 
Limiting Particle Flux in a Planetary Radiation Belt (9253)
Run Shi, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Dept of Math and Stats, St John's, NL, Canada and Danny Summers, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, NL, Canada
 
A Seasonal Study of Uranus’ Magnetosphere  (22416)
Xin Cao, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States and Carol S Paty, University of Oregon, Earth Sciences, Eugene, United States
 
CHANGES IN THE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF JUPITER’S SYNCHROTRON RADIATION IN RESPONSE TO EXTERNAL INFLUENCES DURING THE CASSINI FLYBY OF JUPITER (14392)
Imke De Pater, University of California Berkeley, Departments of Astronomy and of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States, Daniel Santos-Costa, Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, Robert J. Sault, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia, Mike Janssen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Steven Levin, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, Thomas W Broiles, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States and Scott J Bolton, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States
 
"Enhanced" Ray Tracing Study of the Attenuation Lanes in Jupiter’s Hectometric Radio Emission By Using Cassini Jupiter Encounter Data (15553)
Masafumi Imai, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan and Alain Lecacheux, Observatoire de Paris, LESIA, Meudon, France
 
High Resolution Spectra of Jupiter’s Decametric Emission using the Long Wavelength Array Station 1 (16715)
Charles A Higgins, Middle Tennessee State University, Physics and Astronomy, Murfreesboro, TN, United States, Tracy Clarke, Naval Research Lab DC, 7200, Washington, DC, United States, James Thieman, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Jinhie Skarda, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Masafumi Imai, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Kazumasa Imai, Kochi Natl College Tech, Nankoku City Kochi, Japan and Francisco J Reyes, University of Florida, Astronomy, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States
 
The Origin of Jupiter's Outer Radiation Belt (15504)
Emma E Woodfield1, Richard Bertram Horne1, Sarah A Glauert1, John Douglas Menietti2 and Yuri Shprits3, (1)NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2)University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, (3)Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo, Russia
 
Derivation of ions bulk properties in the deep Jovian magnetotail beyond 200Rj (17430)
Georgios Nicolaou, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States; Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Kiruna, Sweden, David J McComas, Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, Fran Bagenal, University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States and Heather Alison Elliott, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
 
Standing shear Alfven waves driven by the Jupiter dipole wobbling (21409)
Ivan Vasko, University of Texas at Dallas, Department of Physics, Richardson, TX, United States, Anton Artemyev, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, Lev Zelenyi, Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia and Satoshi Kasahara, ISAS Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Kanagawa, Japan
 
Survey of the Plasma Composition in Saturn's Magnetotail (15743)
Marianna Felici1, Christopher Stephen Arridge1,2, Daniel Brett Reisenfeld3, Michelle F Thomsen4 and Andrew J Coates1, (1)University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, London, United Kingdom, (2)Lancaster University, Physics Department, Lancaster, United Kingdom, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)Planetary Science Institute, Tuscon, AZ, United States
 
Evidence for a Seasonally-Dependent Ring Plasma in the Region Between Saturn’s a Ring and E Ring (10778)
Ann M Persoon1, Donald A Gurnett1, William S Kurth2 and J B Groene1, (1)University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, (2)University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States
 
Properties of Mirror Mode Waves observed in the Kronian Magnetosphere (28319)
Mario R Rodriguez-Martinez, UNAM National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, Xochitl Blanco-Cano, Instituto de Geofísica Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico, Christopher T Russell, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, Ernesto Aguilar-Rodriguez, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Geofisica, Unidad Michoacan, Mexico City, Mexico, Robert J Wilson, University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States and Michele Karen Dougherty, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
 
A Data-Model Comparison Approach to Understand the Source and Transport Mechanisms of keV-Energy Electrons at Saturn (13477)
Daniel Santos-Costa, Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, George B Clark, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, Chris Paranicas, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, United States, John Douglas Menietti, University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States and Wei-Ling Tseng, NTNU National Taiwan Normal University, Department of Earth Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan
 
The Role of Electron Density on the Interchange Instability at Saturn (24253)
Timothy Kennelly1, George B Hospodarsky1, Michelle F Thomsen2, Ann M Persoon1, William S Kurth1, Donald A Gurnett3, Nicholas A Achilleos4, Maria Andriopoulou5, Sarah Victoria Badman6, Caitriona Mary Jackman7, Xianzhe Jia8, Krishan K Khurana9, Norbert Krupp5, Philippe Louarn10, Chris Paranicas11, Elias Roussos12 and Nick Sergis13, (1)University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, (2)Planetary Science Institute, Tuscon, AZ, United States, (3)University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, (4)University College London, Department of Physics and Astronomy, London, United Kingdom, (5)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, (6)University of Lancaster, Lancaster, United Kingdom, (7)Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, Ireland, (8)University of Michigan, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (9)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (10)CNRS - Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Toulouse, France, (11)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, United States, (12)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany, (13)National Observatory of Athens, Institute of Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing, Athens, Greece
 
Modulation of Young Injection Events at Saturn at the Rotation Period of Perturbations in the Winter Hemisphere: A Proposed Mechanism (6281)
Margaret Kivelson, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States and Xianzhe Jia, University of Michigan, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States
 
Modelling the Compressibility of Saturn's Magnetosphere (15456)
Nicholas A Achilleos1,2, Christopher Stephen Arridge3, Patrick Guio1,2, Nathan Michael Pilkington2,4, Adam Masters5, Nick Sergis6, Andrew J Coates2,7 and Michele Karen Dougherty8, (1)University College London, Department of Physics and Astronomy, London, United Kingdom, (2)University College London, Centre for Planetary Sciences (at UCL/Birkbeck), London, United Kingdom, (3)Lancaster University, Physics Department, Lancaster, United Kingdom, (4)University College London, London, United Kingdom, (5)Imperial College London, Blackett Laboratory, London, United Kingdom, (6)National Observatory of Athens, Institute of Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing, Athens, Greece, (7)University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, London, United Kingdom, (8)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
 
Relative Importance of Thermosphere/Ionosphere in Magnetospheric Eletrodynamics at Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn (16285)
Vytenis M Vasyliunas1,2 and Paul Song2, (1)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, (2)UMass Lowell Center for Atmospheric Research, Lowell, MA, United States
 
Periodicities of the inner plasma disk of Saturn - Cassini RPWS observations (19603)
Mika K. G. Holmberg, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Jan-Erik Wahlund, IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden and Michiko W Morooka, LASP/University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Control of Periodic Variations in Saturn’s Magnetosphere By Compressional Waves (10358)
Xianzhe Jia, University of Michigan, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States and Margaret Kivelson, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Magnetic flux circulation in the rotationally-driven giant magnetospheres (26960)
Peter A Delamere, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, United States, Antonius Otto, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Xuanye Ma, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States, Fran Bagenal, University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States and Robert J Wilson, Univ Colorado, Boulder, United States
 
Reconnection Driven by the Rayleigh–Taylor Instability and Its Application to Radial Transport in the Giant Magnetospheres (20850)
Xuanye Ma, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States, Peter A Delamere, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, United States and Antonius Otto, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
Multifluid MHD Simulation of Saturn’s Interchange Fingers (23409)
Nicholas Lucas1, Ashok Rajendar1 and Carol S Paty2, (1)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States, (2)University of Oregon, Earth Sciences, Eugene, United States
 
Massively parallel MHD simulation of convection and auroral emissions in Saturn’s magnetosphere driven by the observed solar wind (21387)
Keiichiro Fukazawa, Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Raymond J Walker, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Stefan Eriksson, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Multifluid MHD Investigation of Plasma Production and Transport in Saturn's Magnetosphere (13453)
Ashok Rajendar, Georgia Institute of Technology, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, GA, United States, Carol S Paty, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States and Christopher Stephen Arridge, Lancaster University, Physics Department, Lancaster, United Kingdom