SM13E:
Theory and Observation of Magnetic Reconnection in Complex Heliospheric and Magnetospheric Conditions I Posters

Session ID#: 4519

Monday, 15 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Prof. William H Matthaeus, University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States and Mark Swisdak, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
Primary Convener:  Prof. William H Matthaeus, University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States
Co-conveners:  John Dorelli, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Michael A Shay, University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States and Marc Swisdak, University of Maryland, College Park, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Michael A Shay, University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • SH - SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics
Index Terms:

2134 Interplanetary magnetic fields [INTERPLANETARY PHYSICS]
2723 Magnetic reconnection [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
7526 Magnetic reconnection [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7835 Magnetic reconnection [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Reconnection Efficiency Determined from Statistical Properties of Magnetosheath Flux (20191)
Hui Zhang1, Krishan K Khurana2, Margaret Kivelson2, Suiyan Fu3, Zuyin Pu4, Weixing Wan1, Libo Liu5 and Changbo Zhu1, (1)IGG Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China, (4)Peking University, Institute of Space Physics and Applied Technology, Beijing, China, (5)University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
 
Observational Test of the Dayside Magnetopause Reconnection Rate (4235)
Shan Wang1, Lynn M Kistler2 and Christopher Mouikis2, (1)Peking University, Institute of Space Physics and Applied Technology, Beijing, China, (2)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, United States
 
Measures of Magnetic Reconnection at the Dayside Magnetopause (26217)
Colin M Komar, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States and Paul Cassak, West Virginia University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Morgantown, United States
 
Asymmetric Reconnection With A Shear Flow andĀ Applications to X-line Motion at the Polar Cusps (29224)
Christopher Doss1, Colin M Komar1, Matthew Beidler1, Paul Cassak2, Victoria D Wilder3 and Stefan Eriksson4, (1)West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States, (2)West Virginia University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Morgantown, United States, (3)University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, United States, (4)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Effects of a Guide Field on the Larmor Electric Field in Collisionless Asymmetric Reconnection (14992)
Kittipat Malakit1, Surapat Ek-In1, David J Ruffolo1, Michael A Shay2 and Paul Cassak3, (1)Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, (2)University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States, (3)West Virginia University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Morgantown, United States
 
Hall MHD in the Magnetopause with OpenGGCM (17734)
Kristofor-Ryan M Maynard1, Kai Germaschewski2, Liwei Lin1 and Joachim Raeder1, (1)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire, Space Science Center, Durham, United States
 
Visualization and Analysis of Complex Reconnection using the CCMC's Kameleon-plus Access and Interpolation Library (13440)
Asher D Pembroke, Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, CA, United States and Lutz Rastaetter, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Community Coordinated Modeling Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Ion Dynamics during Substorm Events Modeled with Coupled Global MHD and Kinetic Models (9015)
Giovanni Lapenta, KU Leuven, Mathematics, Leuven, Belgium, Maha Ashour-Abdalla, UCLA-IGPP, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Raymond J Walker, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Mostafa El-Alaoui, UCLA, Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, United States
 
The Effect of a Guide Field on the Structures of Magnetic Islands: 2D PIC Simulations (6349)
Can Huang1, Quanming Lu2, San Lu1, Peiran Wang1 and Shui Wang1, (1)USTC University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (2)University of Science and Technology of China, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Science, Hefei, China
 
Comparison of Two-Fluid and Kinetic Simulations of Magnetic Reconnection in Line-Tied Systems (27518)
Cihan Akcay1, William S Daughton2, Adam Stanier2 and Vyacheslav S Lukin3, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (3)Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
 
Rapid Change of Field Line Connectivity and Reconnection in Stochastic Magnetic Fields (28498)
Yi-Min Huang, Princeton University, Princeton, United States, Amitava Bhattacharjee, Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States and Allen H Boozer, Columbia University of New York, Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Ulysses Observations of Tripolar Guide-Magnetic Field Perturbations Across Solar Wind Reconnection Exhausts (18421)
Stefan Eriksson1, Bo Peng2, Stefano Markidis2, John T Gosling1, David J McComas3, Giovanni Lapenta4 and David L Newman1, (1)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (3)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (4)KU Leuven, Mathematics, Leuven, Belgium
 
Solar Magnetic Reconnection at Low Altitudes and Associated Type III Solar Radio Bursts and X-Ray Emission (20230)
Iver Hugh Cairns, University of Sydney, School of Physics and ARC Training Centre for CubeSats, UAVs, and Their Applications (CUAVA), Sydney, NSW, Australia, Vasili V Lobzin, Bureau of Meteorology, Learmonth Solar Observatory, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Alina Catalina Donea, Monash University, School of Mathematics, Melbourne, Australia, Steven John Tingay, Curtin University, Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy, Perth, WA, Australia, Divya Oberoi, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, National Center for Radio Astronomy, Bangalore, India, Michael J Reiner, Catholic Univ & GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Donald B Melrose, University of Sydney, SIfA, School of Physics, Sydney, Australia
 
Shock--turbulence interaction in magnetic reconnection: Density variance effects (15140)
Nobumitsu Yokoi, University of Tokyo, Earth and Planetary Science, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
 
New Theory of Whistler Waves Observed during Magnetotail Reconnection* (26739)
Martin V Goldman, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States, Jonathan P Eastwood, Imperial College London, Physics, London, United Kingdom, David L Newman, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and Giovanni Lapenta, KU Leuven, Mathematics, Leuven, Belgium
 
Magnetospheric Multiscale Science Operations, Data Acquisition, Data Management, and Data Access and Archiving (23865)
Barbara L Giles1, Daniel N Baker2, Stephen A Fuselier3, Robert Ergun4, Steven M Petrinec5, Tai Phan6, Mitsuo Oka7, James L Burch3, Roy B Torbert8, Thomas Earle Moore9, Christopher K Pankratz2, Jason Beech10, Lonnie J Riesberg10, Russ S Panneton10, Victoria D Wilder11, Dr. Katherine Goodrich12, William S Lewis13 and Magnetospheric Multiscale Science Working Team, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (2)University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (4)University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmsopheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (5)Lockheed Martin STAR Labs, Palo Alto, CA, United States, (6)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (7)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (8)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, United States, (10)University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (11)University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, United States, (12)West Virginia University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Morgantown, United States, (13)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States