SH43C:
Implications and Applications of Kappa Distributions in Space Plasma Physics II

Session ID#: 4409

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
2012 (Moscone West)
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, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Space Science, Huntsville, AL, 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
OSPA Liaison:  Jacob Heerikhuisen, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Space Science, Huntsville, AL, 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:

SH43C-01
The kappa Distribution as Tool in Investigating Hot Plasmas in the Magnetospheres of Outer Planets (Invited) (2842)
Stamatios Mike Krimigis, Academy of Athens, Space, Athens, Greece and James F Carbary, Johns Hopkins Univ, Laurel, MD, United States
SH43C-03
The Common Spectrum in the Heliosphere: Observations and a Theory to Explain the Observations (4804)
George Gloeckler and Lennard A Fisk, Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
SH43C-04
Low Energy Neutral Atoms and Kappa Ion Distributions in the Heliosheath (10716)
Stephen A Fuselier1, Frederic Allegrini2, Maciej A Bzowski3, Maher A Dayeh2, Mihir Indrajit Desai2, Herbert O Funsten4, Andre Galli5, David Heirtzler6, Paul H Janzen7, Marzena A Kubiak3, Harald Kucharek8, William S Lewis1, George Livadiotis1, David J McComas9, Eberhard Möbius10, Steven M Petrinec11, Marty Scott Quinn12, Nathan Schwadron13, Justyna M Sokol14 and Karlheinz J Trattner15, (1)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (3)Space Research Center of Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, (4)Los Alamos National Laboratory, ISR-DO, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (5)University of Bern, Physics Institute, Space Research and Planetary Sciences, Bern, Switzerland, (6)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (7)University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States, (8)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (9)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (10)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (11)Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Cupertino, United States, (12)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, United States, (13)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (14)Space Research Center Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland, (15)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States
SH41A-4120
The Dispersion Relations for Dispersive Alfvén Waves in Superthermal Plasmas (17274)
Rudi Gaelzer, UFRGS Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil and Luiz F Ziebell, UFRGS Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Rio Grande, Brazil
SH43C-06
On the Radial Evolution of κ-Distributions of Pick-up Protons in the Supersonic Solar Wind (8386)
Horst Fichtner1, Hans-Joerg Fahr2 and Klaus Scherer1, (1)Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, (2)University of Bonn, AIFA, Bonn, Germany
SH43C-07
Electron kappa distribution, quasi-thermal noise, and spontaneously-emitted electromagnetic fluctuations (Invited) (2732)
Peter H Yoon, Univ Maryland, College Park, MD, United States; Kyung Hee Univ., Yongin, South Korea
SH43C-08
Quasi-Conformality of a Non-Extensive Entropy and Kappa Distributions (3557)
Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
Discussion
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