SM51E:
Magnetospheres in the Solar System III Posters

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  George B Hospodarsky, Univ Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States and Chris Paranicas, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States
Primary Conveners:  Xianzhe Jia, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Co-conveners:  Chris Paranicas, Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD, United States and George B Hospodarsky, Univ Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Xianzhe Jia, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Solar Cycle Changes in the Position of the Intermediate Transition in the Venus Ionosheath.
Hector A Perez De Tejada1, Rickard N A Lundin2, Hector J Durand-Manterola1, Mauricio Reyes-Ruiz3, Stash Barabash2, Tielong Zhang4 and Jean-Andre Sauvaud5, (1)UNAM National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, (2)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Umeå, Umeå, Sweden, (3)UNAM, Ensenada, B.C., Mexico, (4)Space Research Institute, Graz, Austria, (5)IRAP/CNRS, Toulouse, France
 
Ion flows in Venus' magnetotail
Peter Kollmann1, Pontus C. Brandt1, Yoshifumi Futaana2 and Andrei Fedorov3, (1)APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Kiruna, Kiruna, Sweden, (3)IRAP, Toulouse, Italy
 
First Observations of Mercury's Plasma Mantle As Seen By MESSENGER
Gina A DiBraccio1,2, James A Slavin1, Jim M Raines1, Daniel J Gershman3,4, Patrick Tracy1, Scott A Boardsen3,5, Thomas Zurbuchen1, Brian J Anderson6, Haje Korth6, Ralph L McNutt Jr6 and Sean C Solomon7,8, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar System Exploration Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (5)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Goddard Planetary Heliophysics Institute, Baltimore, MD, United States, (6)JHU/APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (7)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (8)Carnegie Institute of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States
 
MESSENGER Observations of Cusp Plasma Filaments at Mercury
Gang Kai Poh1, James A Slavin1, Gina A DiBraccio2, Xianzhe Jia3, Jim M Raines1, Suzanne M Imber4, Brian J Anderson5, Haje Korth6, Daniel J Gershman7, Thomas Zurbuchen8, Ralph L McNutt Jr6 and Sean C Solomon9, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar System Exploration Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)Radio and Space Plasma Physics, Leicester, United Kingdom, (5)Johns Hopkins Univ, Laurel, MD, United States, (6)The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (9)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Plasma Transport, Acceleration, and Loss in Mercury’s Magnetosphere and Comparison with Other Planetary Magnetospheres
David Schriver1, Pavel M. Travnicek2, Brian J Anderson3, Maha Ashour-Abdalla4, Daniel N. Baker5, Mehdi Benna6, Scott A Boardsen7, Petr Hellinger8, George C Ho3, Haje Korth9, Stamatios M Krimigis10, Ralph L McNutt Jr11, Jim M Raines12, Robert L Richard13, James A Slavin12, Richard D Starr14, Sean C Solomon15 and Thomas Zurbuchen16, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins Univ, Laurel, MD, United States, (4)UCLA-IGPP, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)NASA - GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)Astronomical Institute, AS CR, Prague 4, Czech Republic, (9)JHU/APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (10)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Space, Laurel, MD, United States, (11)Johns Hopkins Univ/APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (12)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (13)UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (14)Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, (15)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (16)Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
 
Altitude Distribution and Position of Auroral Density Cavities in the Auroral Acceleration Region
Love Alm, Bin Li, Goran Tage Marklund and Tomas Karlsson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
 
Limiting Particle Flux in a Planetary Radiation Belt
Run Shi, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Dept of Math and Stats, St John's, NL, Canada and Danny Summers, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Dept of Math and Stats, St John's, Canada
 
A Seasonal Study of Uranus’ Magnetosphere 
Xin Cao, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States and Carol S Paty, Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States
 
CHANGES IN THE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF JUPITER’S SYNCHROTRON RADIATION IN RESPONSE TO EXTERNAL INFLUENCES DURING THE CASSINI FLYBY OF JUPITER
Imke De Pater1, Daniel Santos-Costa2, Robert J. Sault3, Mike Janssen4, Steve Levin4, Thomas W Broiles5 and Scott J Bolton5, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (3)University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
 
"Enhanced" Ray Tracing Study of the Attenuation Lanes in Jupiter’s Hectometric Radio Emission By Using Cassini Jupiter Encounter Data
Masafumi Imai, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan and Alain Lecacheux, CNRS, Observatoire de Paris, LESIA, Meudon, France
 
High Resolution Spectra of Jupiter’s Decametric Emission using the Long Wavelength Array Station 1
Charles A Higgins, Middle Tennessee State University, Physics and Astronomy, Murfreesboro, TN, United States, Tracy Clarke, Naval Research Lab DC, 7200, Washington, DC, United States, James Thieman, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Jinhie Skarda, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Masafumi Imai, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Kazumasa Imai, Kochi Natl College Tech, Nankoku City Kochi, Japan and Francisco J Reyes, University of Florida, Astronomy, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States
 
The Origin of Jupiter's Outer Radiation Belt
Emma E Woodfield1, Richard B. Horne1, Sarah Glauert1, John Douglas Menietti2 and Yuri Shprits3, (1)NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2)University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, (3)Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo, Russia
 
Derivation of ions bulk properties in the deep Jovian magnetotail beyond 200Rj
Georgios Nicolaou1,2, David J McComas2, Fran Bagenal3 and Heather Alison Elliott2, (1)University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (3)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Standing shear Alfven waves driven by the Jupiter dipole wobbling
Ivan Vasko1, Anton Artemyev1, Lev Zelenyi1 and Satoshi Kasahara2, (1)Space Research Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia, (2)ISAS Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Kanagawa, Japan
 
Survey of the Plasma Composition in Saturn's Magnetotail
Marianna Felici1, Christopher Stephen Arridge1,2, Daniel Brett Reisenfeld3, Michelle F Thomsen4 and Andrew J Coates1, (1)University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, London, United Kingdom, (2)University of Lancaster, Department of Physics, Lancaster, United Kingdom, (3)University of Montana, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Missoula, MT, United States, (4)Planetary Science Institute, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Evidence for a Seasonally-Dependent Ring Plasma in the Region Between Saturn’s a Ring and E Ring
Ann M Persoon, Donald A Gurnett, William S Kurth and Joseph Groene, University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States
 
Properties of Mirror Mode Waves observed in the Kronian Magnetosphere
Mario R Rodriguez-Martinez, UNAM National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, Xochitl Blanco-Cano, UNAM, Mexico, Mexico, Christopher T Russell, Univ California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Ernesto Aguilar-Rodriguez, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, Robert J Wilson, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Michele Karen Dougherty, Imperial College London, Blackett Laboratory, London, United Kingdom
 
A Data-Model Comparison Approach to Understand the Source and Transport Mechanisms of keV-Energy Electrons at Saturn
Daniel Santos-Costa, Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, George B Clark, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, Chris Paranicas, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, John Douglas Menietti, University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States and Wei-Ling Tseng, NTNU National Taiwan Normal University, Department of Earth Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan
 
The Role of Electron Density on the Interchange Instability at Saturn
Timothy Kennelly1, George B Hospodarsky1, Michelle F Thomsen2, Ann M Persoon1, William S Kurth1, Donald A Gurnett1, Nicholas A Achilleos3, Maria Andriopoulou4, Sarah Victoria Badman5, Caitriona M Jackman3, Xianzhe Jia6, Krishan K Khurana7, Norbert Krupp4, Philippe Louarn8, Chris Paranicas9, Elias Roussos4 and Nick Sergis10, (1)University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, (2)Planetary Science Institute, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)University College London, London, United Kingdom, (4)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, (5)University of Lancaster, Lancaster, LA1, United Kingdom, (6)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (7)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (8)CNRS/IRAP, Toulouse, France, (9)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (10)National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
 
Modulation of Young Injection Events at Saturn at the Rotation Period of Perturbations in the Winter Hemisphere: A Proposed Mechanism
Margaret Kivelson1,2 and Xianzhe Jia2, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
 
Modelling the Compressibility of Saturn's Magnetosphere
Nicholas A Achilleos1,2, Christopher Stephen Arridge3, Patrick Guio1,2, Nathan Michael Pilkington1,2, Adam Masters4, Nick Sergis5, Andrew J Coates2,6 and Michele Karen Dougherty7, (1)University College London, London, United Kingdom, (2)University College London, Centre for Planetary Sciences (at UCL/Birkbeck), London, United Kingdom, (3)University of Lancaster, Department of Physics, Lancaster, United Kingdom, (4)Imperial College London, Blackett Laboratory, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (5)National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, (6)University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, London, United Kingdom, (7)Imperial College London, Blackett Laboratory, London, United Kingdom
 
Relative Importance of Thermosphere/Ionosphere in Magnetospheric Eletrodynamics at Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn
Vytenis M Vasyliunas1,2 and Paul Song2, (1)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, (2)UMass Lowell Center for Atmospheric Research, Lowell, MA, United States
 
Periodicities of the inner plasma disk of Saturn - Cassini RPWS observations
Mika Holmberg, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Jan-Erik Wahlund, IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden and Michiko W. Morooka, LASP/University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Control of Periodic Variations in Saturn’s Magnetosphere By Compressional Waves
Xianzhe Jia, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Margaret Kivelson, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Magnetic flux circulation in the rotationally-driven giant magnetospheres
Peter A Delamere1, Antonius Otto1, Xuanye Ma1, Fran Bagenal2 and Robert J Wilson2, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Reconnection Driven by the Rayleigh–Taylor Instability and Its Application to Radial Transport in the Giant Magnetospheres
Xuanye Ma, Peter A Delamere and Antonius Otto, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
Multifluid MHD Simulation of Saturn’s Interchange Fingers
Nicholas Lucas1, Ashok Rajendar1 and Carol S Paty2, (1)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States, (2)Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States
 
Massively parallel MHD simulation of convection and auroral emissions in Saturn’s magnetosphere driven by the observed solar wind
Keiichiro Fukazawa, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Raymond J Walker, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Stefan Eriksson, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Multifluid MHD Investigation of Plasma Production and Transport in Saturn's Magnetosphere
Ashok Rajendar, Georgia Institute of Technology, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, GA, United States, Carol S Paty, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States and Christopher Stephen Arridge, University of Lancaster, Department of Physics, Lancaster, United Kingdom