SH43C:
Implications and Applications of Kappa Distributions in Space Plasma Physics II

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
Chairs:  George Livadiotis, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, Ioannis Kourakis, Centre for Plasma Physics, Belfast, United Kingdom and Jacob Heerikhuisen, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Space Science, Huntsville, AL, United States
Primary Conveners:  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
OSPA Liaisons:  Jacob Heerikhuisen, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Space Science, Huntsville, AL, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

1:40 PM
SH43C-01
 
The kappa Distribution as Tool in Investigating Hot Plasmas in the Magnetospheres of Outer Planets
Stamatios M Krimigis, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Space, Laurel, MD, United States and James F Carbary, Johns Hopkins Univ, Laurel, MD, United States
1:55 PM
SH43C-02
 
Kappa Distributions: The Injection Problem At Perpendicular Shocks And The Transmission Problem At The Heliospheric Termination Shock
Gary Paul Zank, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
2:10 PM
SH43C-03
 
The Common Spectrum in the Heliosphere: Observations and a Theory to Explain the Observations
George Gloeckler and Lennard A Fisk, Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
2:25 PM
SH43C-04
 
Low Energy Neutral Atoms and Kappa Ion Distributions in the Heliosheath
Stephen Fuselier1, Frederic Allegrini1, Maciej Bzowski2, Maher A Dayeh1, Mihir Indrajit Desai3, Herbert O Funsten4, Andre Galli5, David Heirtzler6, Paul H Janzen7, Marzena A. Kubiak2, Harald Kucharek8, William S Lewis3, George Livadiotis3, David J McComas1, Eberhard Moebius8, Steven M Petrinec9, Marty Scott Quinn10, Nathan Schwadron6, Justyna M Sokol2 and Karlheinz J Trattner11, (1)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)Space Research Center Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, (3)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (4)Los Alamos Natl Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (5)University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, (6)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (7)University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States, (8)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (9)Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Cupertino, CA, United States, (10)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, United States, (11)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States
2:38 PM
SH43C-05
 
Tsallis Distributions and the q-Triplet of the Magnetic Field in the Heliosheath
Leonard F Burlaga, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 673, Greenbelt, MD, United States
2:51 PM
SH43C-06
 
On the Radial Evolution of κ-Distributions of Pick-up Protons in the Supersonic Solar Wind
Horst Fichtner1, Hans-Joerg Fahr2 and Klaus Scherer1, (1)Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, (2)Universität Bonn, AIFA, Bonn, Germany
3:04 PM
SH43C-07
 
Electron kappa distribution, quasi-thermal noise, and spontaneously-emitted electromagnetic fluctuations
Peter Haesung Yoon, Univ Maryland, College Park, MD, United States; Kyung Hee Univ., Yongin, South Korea
3:18 PM
SH43C-08
 
Quasi-Conformality of a Non-Extensive Entropy and Kappa Distributions
Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
3:31 PM
 
Discussion
 
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