SM42A:
Theory and Observation of Magnetic Reconnection in Complex Heliospheric and Magnetospheric Conditions II

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  John Dorelli, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and William H Matthaeus, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
Primary Conveners:  William H Matthaeus, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
Co-conveners:  John Dorelli, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Michael A Shay, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States and Marc M Swisdak, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Michael A Shay, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
Generation of Alfvenic Waves and Turbulence in Magnetic Reconnection Jets
Masahiro Hoshino, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
10:38 AM
 
Current Sheet Formation, Equilibria and Heating in the Closed Corona
Antonio F Rappazzo, Advanced Heliophysics, Pasadena, CA, United States
10:56 AM
 
Magnetic reconnection in 3D magnetosphere models: magnetic separators and open flux production
Alex Glocer1, John Dorelli1, Gabor Toth2, Colin M Komar3 and Paul Cassak3, (1)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States
11:14 AM
 
Magnetic Reconnection and Intermittent Turbulence
Kareem Osman1, William H Matthaeus2, Khurom Hussain Kiyani1, John T Gosling3, Sandra C Chapman4, Bogdan Hnat1, Antonella Greco5, Sergio Servidio6, Tai-Duc Phan7 and Yuri V Khotyaintsev8, (1)University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4, United Kingdom, (2)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (3)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, (5)Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita della Calabria, Calabria, Italy, (6)Universita' della Calabria, Rende, Italy, (7)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (8)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
11:32 AM
 
Observations of Plasma Waves in the Colliding Jet Region of a 3D Magnetic Flux Rope Flanked by Two Active Reconnection X Lines at the Subsolar Magnetopause
Marit Oieroset1, David J Sundkvist2, Christopher Carew Chaston1, Tai-Duc Phan1, Forrest Mozer1, James P McFadden1, Vassilis Angelopoulos3, Laila Andersson4 and Jonathan P Eastwood5, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
11:44 AM
 
Magnetic Island Dynamics and Energy Dissipation in Multiple X-line Reconnection
Meng Zhou1, Ye Pang1, Xiaohua Deng1, Shiyong Huang2 and Xiangsheng Lai1, (1)Nanchang University, Nanchang, China, (2)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, Saint-Maur Des Fossés Cedex, France
11:56 AM
 
Asymmetric Reconnection at the Magnetopause Under the Presence of Low-Energy Ions of Magnetospheric Origin
Sergio Toledo Redondo, Andris Vaivads, Mats Andre and Yuri V Khotyaintsev, IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
12:08 PM
 
Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection in Partially Ionized Chromospheric Plasmas
Nicholas A Murphy1, Vyacheslav S Lukin2 and John C Raymond1, (1)Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States