SM12B:
Physics of the Diffusion Region in Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection I
Monday, 15 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs: Li-Jen Chen, Univ of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States and William S Daughton, MS-F699, Plasma Theory and App, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Primary Conveners: Li-Jen Chen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Co-conveners: William S Daughton, MS-F699, Plasma Theory and App, Los Alamos, NM, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Li-Jen Chen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
10:20 AM
Local Diagnosis of Reconnection in 3D
Jack D Scudder, Univ of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, Homayoun Karimabadi, SciberQuest, Del Mar, CA, United States, William S Daughton, MS-F699, Plasma Theory and App, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Vadim Roytershteyn, SciberQuest, Inc, Atlanta, GA, United States
10:35 AM
Electron Scale Signatures of Asymmetric Collisionless Reconnection Obtained from Particle-in-Cel Models.
Nicolas Aunai1, Michael Hesse2, Maria M Kuznetsova3 and Benoit Lavraud1, (1)IRAP, Toulouse, France, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
10:50 AM
Asymmetric Reconnection With a Guide Field: the Saga Continues
Michael Hesse, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Nicolas Aunai, IRAP, Toulouse, France, Yi-Hsin Liu, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Maria M Kuznetsova, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Joachim Birn, Space Science Institute, Los Alamos, NM, United States
11:20 AM
"Smoking-Gun" Observables of Magnetic Reconnection: Spatiotemporal Evolution of Electron Characteristics Throughout the Diffusion Region
Jason R Shuster1, Li-Jen Chen1, Naoki Bessho1, Guanlai Li1, Roy B Torbert1, Shan Wang1, Matthew R Argall1 and William S Daughton2, (1)Univ of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Plasma Theory and App, Los Alamos, NM, United States
11:35 AM
Geotail observation of low frequency wave activity in a 3D structure of magnetotail reconnection site
Iku Shinohara, JAXA, Sagamihara Kanagawa, Japan, Hirotsugu Kojima, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Tsugunobu Nagai, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, Seiji Zenitani, NAOJ National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo, Japan and Masaki Fujimoto, ISAS/JAXA, Kanagawa, Japan
11:50 AM
High-Frequency Fluctuations During Magnetic Reconnection
Jonathan Jara-Almonte1, Hantao Ji2, William S Daughton3, Vadim Roytershteyn4, Masaaki Yamada1, Jongsoo Yoo1 and William R Fox II1, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)MS-F699, Plasma Theory and App, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)SciberQuest, Inc, Atlanta, GA, United States
12:05 PM
A Statistical View of the Effect of Density Asymmetry and Guide Field on the Structure of the Reconnection Layer Poleward of the Cusp
Fathima Muzleena Muzamil1, Charles J Farrugia1, Roy B Torbert1, Philip L Pritchett2, Forrest Mozer3, Jack D Scudder4, Christopher T Russell2, Per Even Sandholt5, William F Denig6 and Lynn B Wilson III7, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Univ of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, (5)University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, (6)National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
