SH31B:
Plasma Properties of the Solar Corona and Solar Wind: Sources Versus Evolution I

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Chadi S Salem, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States and Olga Panasenco, Advanced Heliophysics, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Chadi S Salem, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Marco M C Velli, Calif Inst of Tech-JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States, Olga Panasenco, Advanced Heliophysics, Pasadena, CA, United States and Roberto Lionello, Predictive Science Incorporate, San Diego, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Olga Panasenco, Advanced Heliophysics, Pasadena, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
 
A Versatile 4-Plasma Categorization Scheme for the Solar Wind: Exploring the Statistical Properties of Plasmas of Different Origins
Joseph E Borovsky, Space Science Institute, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Fei Xu, NUIST Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
8:15 AM
 
Plasma Properties of Pseudostreamers and Associated Solar Wind Streams
Mari Paz Miralles1, Steven R Cranmer1 and Guillermo Stenborg2, (1)Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States
8:30 AM
 
Investigation of Solar Wind Source Regions by Using Ulysses/SWICS/SWOOPS Composition Data and a Potential Field Source Surface Model to map in situ Measurements back onto the Photosphere
Thies Peleikis1, Martin Alexander Kruse II1, Lars Berger1, Christian Drews1, R F Wimmer-Schweingruber1, David J McComas2 and George Gloeckler3, (1)University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (2)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (3)Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
8:45 AM
 
Characterizing a Model of Coronal Heating and Solar Wind Acceleration Based on Wave Turbulence.
Cooper Downs1, Roberto Lionello1, Zoran Mikic1, Jon Linker1 and Marco Velli2, (1)Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, CA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
9:00 AM
 
Interchange Reconnection and Slow Solar Wind Formation at the boundaries of open field regions in the Solar Corona
Antonio F Rappazzo, Advanced Heliophysics, Pasadena, CA, United States, William H Matthaeus, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, David J Ruffolo, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, Sergio Servidio, Universita' della Calabria, Rende, Italy and Marco Velli, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
9:15 AM
 
Visco-resistive tearing in thin current sheets.
Marco M C Velli, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Anna Tenerani, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Antonio F Rappazzo, Advanced Heliophysics, Pasadena, CA, United States and Fulvia Pucci, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
9:30 AM
 
On the Dependence of Solar Wind Speed on Local Magnetic Field Orientation in Highly Alfvénic Streams
Lorenzo Matteini, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Timothy Simon Horbury, Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, Marcia Neugebauer, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States and Bruce E Goldstein, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
9:45 AM
 

Alpha-Particle/Proton Differential Flow in the Solar Wind: Implications for Plasma Heating, Azimuthal Flow, and the Parker Spiral Magnetic Field

Daniel Verscharen, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, Sofiane Bourouaine, Univ of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States and Benjamin D G Chandran, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States