SM13C:
Physics of the Diffusion Region in Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection II Posters
Session ID#: 4516
Monday, 15 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
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 GSFC, Greenbelt, United States
Co-Convener: William S Daughton, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
OSPA Liaison: William S Daughton, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
Virtual Option?: No
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Electron Distribution Functions in the Separatrix Layer inside the Diffusion Region (27862)
Ruilong Guo1,2, Li-Jen Chen2, Zuyin Pu3, Shan Wang2, Jason R Shuster2, Guanlai Li2, Naoki Bessho4, Roy B Torbert2, Suiyan Fu5 and William S Daughton6, (1)University of Liège, Liège, Belgium, (2)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (3)Peking University, Institute of Space Physics and Applied Technology, Beijing, China, (4)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (5)Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China, (6)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Origins of Highly Structured Distribution Functions in Magnetic Reconnection Exhausts: Understanding Electron Acceleration and Heating (20650)
Jason R Shuster1, Shan Wang1, Li-Jen Chen1, Naoki Bessho2, Ruilong Guo1,3, Roy B Torbert1 and William S Daughton4, (1)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (3)University of Liège, Liège, Belgium, (4)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
Fine structures of electron distribution functions in the electron diffusion region during magnetic reconnection (27797)
Naoki Bessho, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Jason R Shuster, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, United States and Li-Jen Chen, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States
Effects of ion dynamics on kinetic structures of the diffusion region during magnetic reconnection (26621)
Li-Jen Chen1, Jason R Shuster2, Naoki Bessho3, Guanlai Li4, Roy B Torbert3 and William S Daughton5, (1)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire (UNH), Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space (EOS), Durham, NH, United States, (5)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
Distinct types of electron velocity distributions in magnetotail reconnection exhausts (23133)
Guanlai Li, University of New Hampshire (UNH), Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space (EOS), Durham, NH, United States, Li-Jen Chen, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, Jason R Shuster, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, United States, Roy B Torbert, University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States and William S Daughton, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
Inferring proximity to the reconnection site via structural changes to the magnetopause caused by asymmetric reconnection. (27645)
Matthew R Argall1, Li-Jen Chen2, Roy B Torbert1, William S Daughton3, Jongsoo Yoo4 and Masaaki Yamada4, (1)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (2)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (4)Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, United States
First Observation of Switch-Off Slow Shocks in Fully Kinetic Particle in Cell Simulation of Magnetic Reconnection (14254)
Lucia Sanna1, Giovanni Lapenta2, Martin V Goldman3, David L Newman3 and Stefano Markidis4, (1)Leuven Institute for Advanced Space Studies, Leuven, Belgium, (2)KU Leuven, Mathematics, Leuven, Belgium, (3)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Onset of reconnection in the near magnetotail: PIC simulations (16853)
Yi-Hsin Liu, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Joachim Birn, Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, William S Daughton, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, Michael Hesse, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway and Karl Schindler, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
An Investigation of Perpendicular Gradients of Parallel Electric Field Associated with Magnetic Reconnection (14598)
Andrew Paul Sturner1, Robert Ergun2, David L Newman1 and Giovanni Lapenta3, (1)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmsopheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (3)KU Leuven, Mathematics, Leuven, Belgium
Simulation of Electron Diffusion Region processes in magnetospheric current layers with the new semi-implicit adaptive Multi Level Multi Domain method (11748)
Maria Elena Innocenti, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, Arnaud Beck, Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS-IN2P3, France, Stefano Markidis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden and Giovanni Lapenta, KU Leuven, Mathematics, Leuven, Belgium
2D PIC Simulations of Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection for a Force-Free Current Sheet (23028)
Fiona Wilson, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom, Thomas Neukirch, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, KY16, United Kingdom and Michael Hesse, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Status of the Next-Generation OpenGGCM Model (21962)
Kai Germaschewski1, Joachim Raeder2, Amitava Bhattacharjee3, Liwei Lin4, Kristofor-Ryan M Maynard4 and Liang Wang5, (1)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire, Department of Physics & Astronomy, and Space Science Center, Durham, United States, (3)Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (5)Princeton University, Princeton, United States
Integrating kinetic effects in fluid models for magnetic reconnection (18438)
Liang Wang1, Ammar Hakim2, Amitava Bhattacharjee2 and Kai Germaschewski3, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, United States, (2)Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire, Space Science Center, Durham, United States
Dynamic Response of Magnetic Reconnection Due to Current Sheet Variability (9711)
Don E George1,2, Jörg-Micha Jahn3, James L Burch2, Michael Hesse4 and Craig J Pollock5, (1)University of Texas at San Antonio, Physics and Astronomy, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (4)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Acceleration of Oxygen ions by Magnetic Reconnection (18039)
Haoming Liang, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Maha Ashour-Abdalla, UCLA-IGPP, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Giovanni Lapenta, KU Leuven, Mathematics, Leuven, Belgium and Raymond J Walker, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Magnetic configuration in ion diffusion region (12278)
Yongcun Zhang1, Chao Shen2, Zhenxing Liu2 and Zhaojin Rong3, (1)National Space Science Center, CAS, SKL of Space Weather, Beijing, China, (2)NSSC/CSSAR,CAS, SKL of Space Weather, Beijing, China, (3)Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
