SH41A:
Implications and Applications of Kappa Distributions in Space Plasma Physics I Posters

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Primary Convener:  George Livadiotis, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
Co-conveners:  Ioannis Kourakis, Centre for Plasma Physics, Belfast, United Kingdom and Jacob Heerikhuisen, U of AL/Huntsville-CSPAR, Huntsville, AL, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Foundations of Statistical Mechanics in Space Plasmas
George Livadiotis, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
 
Implication of Kappa models in realistic parameterization of the kinetic anisotropy and the resulting instabilities in space plasmas
Stefaan Poedts, KU Leuven, CmPA, Dover, NH, United States, Maria Lazar, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Mathematics/CmPA, Leuven, Belgium and Viviane Pierrard, Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium
 
Modelling of Electrostatic Solitary Waves and Shocks in Non-Maxwellian Plasmas: A Review of Recent Results
Ioannis Kourakis1, Gina Williams1, Sharmin Sultana2 and Manfred Hellberg3, (1)Centre for Plasma Physics, Belfast, United Kingdom, (2)Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (3)University of Kwazulu Natal, School of Physics, Durban, South Africa
 
Whistler Cyclotron Electromagnetic Fluctuations in a Maxwellian and Tsallis-kappa-like Plasma
Adolfo F. Vinas1, Pablo S Moya1,2, Roberto Navarro3 and Jaime A Araneda4, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Division, Geospace Physics Laboratory, Mail Code 673, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Catholic University of America, Department of Physics, Washington, DC, United States, (3)Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, (4)Univ. Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile
 
Whistler-cyclotron spontaneous fluctuations as a proxy to identify thermal and non-thermal electrons in the solar wind
Pablo S Moya1,2, Adolfo F. Vinas1, Roberto Navarro3 and Jaime A Araneda4, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Division, Geospace Physics Laboratory, Mail Code 673, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Catholic University of America, Department of Physics, Washington, DC, United States, (3)Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, (4)Univ. Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile
 
Magnetic Alfvén-Cyclotron Fluctuations of Anisotropic Non-Thermal Plasmas
Roberto Navarro1, Victor Munoz1, Jaime A Araneda2, Adolfo F. Vinas3, Pablo S Moya3 and Juan Alejandro Valdivia1, (1)University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, (2)Univ. Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Division, Geospace Physics Laboratory, Mail Code 673, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
The Dispersion Relations for Dispersive Alfvén Waves in Superthermal Plasmas
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
 
Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron Waves in the Inner Magnetosphere with a Kappa-Maxwellian Proton Distribution
Satyavir Singh1, Hajime Sugiyama2, Yoshiharu Omura2, Masafumi Shoji3, David Nunn4 and Danny Summers5, (1)Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, Upper Atmosphere, Navi Mumbai, India, (2)RISH Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto, Japan, (3)ISAS/JAXA, Sagamihara, Japan, (4)University of Southampton, School of Electronics and Computer Science, Southampton, United Kingdom, (5)Memorial University of Newfoundland, Dept of Math and Stats, St John's, Canada
 
Ion-Acoustic Double-Layers in Plasmas with Nonthermal Electrons
Luciana Antunes Rios, Brazilian Center for Physics Research, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Ricardo Magnus Osório Galvão, USP University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
 
On the Ordinary mode Instability for Non-Extensive Anisotropic Distribution
Muhammad Fraz Bashir, Government College University Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan, Peter Haesung Yoon, Univ Maryland, College Park, MD, United States and G. Murtaza, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
 
Charging of Interstellar Dust Grains in the Out-of-Equilibrium Plasma of the Inner and Outer Heliosheath Regions
Priscilla C Frisch1, Maher A Dayeh2, Mihir Indrajit Desai2, Herbert O Funsten3, Jacob Heerikhuisen4, Paul H Janzen5, David J McComas2, George Livadiotis2, Keiichi Ogasawara2, Nikolai V Pogorelov4, Daniel Brett Reisenfeld5, Nathan Schwadron6, Jonathan D Slavin7 and Gary Paul Zank4, (1)University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (3)Los Alamos Natl Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Space Science, Huntsville, AL, United States, (5)University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States, (6)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, (7)Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
How Do κ-Distributed Protons in the Heliosheath Affect Energetic Neutral Atoms
Jacob Heerikhuisen1, Eric J Zirnstein2 and Nikolai V Pogorelov1,3, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, Huntsville, AL, United States, (3)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Space Science, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
Suprathermal Tails in the Solar Wind and at Interplanetary Discontinuities
Mark Popecki1, Harald Kucharek1, Charles J Farrugia1, Antoinette Broe Galvin1 and Berndt Klecker2, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (2)Max Planck Institut for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany
 
Suprathermal Ion Acceleration in Multiple Contracting and Reconnecting Inertial-scale Flux Ropes in the Supersonic Solar Wind.
Jakobus Albertus le Roux1, Gary Paul Zank1 and Gary M Webb2, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)University of Alabama in Huntsville, CSPAR, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
Numerical simulations of self-consistently generated κ distributions in the solar wind and solar corona
Brent M Randol, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Eric R Christian, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
On a few properties of very dilute matter frozen in space magnetic fields
Daniel Benjamin Berdichevsky, Berdichevsky Daniel B, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Kendric Schefers, Columbia University of New York, Lerner-Hall, Palisades, NY, United States