SM13C:
Physics of the Diffusion Region in Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection II Posters

Monday, 15 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 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, Univ of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
Co-conveners:  William S Daughton, MS-F699, Plasma Theory and App, Los Alamos, NM, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  William S Daughton, MS-F699, Plasma Theory and App, Los Alamos, NM, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Nongyrotropic Electron Distributions in a 2D Particle-in-Cell Simulation of Magnetic Reconnection with a Guide Field
Deirdre E Wendel, Michael Hesse and Mark L Adrian, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Electron Distribution Functions in the Separatrix Layer inside the Diffusion Region
Ruilong Guo1,2, Li-Jen Chen2, Zuyin Pu1, Shan Wang2, Jason R Shuster2, Guanlai Li2, Naoki Bessho2, Roy B Torbert2, Suiyan Fu1 and William S Daughton3, (1)Peking University, Beijing, China, (2)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Origins of Highly Structured Distribution Functions in Magnetic Reconnection Exhausts: Understanding Electron Acceleration and Heating
Jason R Shuster1, Shan Wang1, Li-Jen Chen1, Naoki Bessho1, Ruilong Guo1,2, Roy B Torbert1 and William S Daughton3, (1)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (2)Peking University, Beijing, China, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Plasma Theory and App, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Fine structures of electron distribution functions in the electron diffusion region during magnetic reconnection
Naoki Bessho, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Jason R Shuster, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States and Li-Jen Chen, Univ of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
 
Effects of ion dynamics on kinetic structures of the diffusion region during magnetic reconnection
Li-Jen Chen, Univ of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, Jason R Shuster, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, Naoki Bessho, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, Guanlai Li, University of New Hampshire (UNH), Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space (EOS), Durham, NH, United States, Roy B Torbert, Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States and William S Daughton, MS-F699, Plasma Theory and App, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Distinct types of electron velocity distributions in magnetotail reconnection exhausts
Guanlai Li, University of New Hampshire (UNH), Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space (EOS), Durham, NH, United States, Li-Jen Chen, Univ of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, Jason R Shuster, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, Roy B Torbert, Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States and William S Daughton, MS-F699, Plasma Theory and App, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Inferring proximity to the reconnection site via structural changes to the magnetopause caused by asymmetric reconnection.
Matthew R Argall1, Li-Jen Chen2, Roy B Torbert3, William S Daughton4, Jongsoo Yoo5 and Masaaki Yamada5, (1)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (2)Univ of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (3)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (4)MS-F699, Plasma Theory and App, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (5)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
First Observation of Switch-Off Slow Shocks in Fully Kinetic Particle in Cell Simulation of Magnetic Reconnection
Lucia Sanna1, Giovanni Lapenta2, Martin V Goldman3, David L Newman3 and Stefano Markidis4, (1)Leuven Institute for Advanced Space Studies, Leuven, Belgium, (2)Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, (3)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
 
Onset of reconnection in the near magnetotail: PIC simulations
Yi-Hsin Liu1, Joachim Birn2, William S Daughton3, Michael Hesse1 and Karl Schindler4, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Space Science Institute, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)MS-F699, Plasma Theory and App, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
 
An Investigation of Perpendicular Gradients of Parallel Electric Field Associated with Magnetic Reconnection
Andrew Paul Sturner1, Robert Ergun1, David L Newman1 and Giovanni Lapenta2, (1)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
 
Simulation of Electron Diffusion Region processes in magnetospheric current layers with the new semi-implicit adaptive Multi Level Multi Domain method
Maria Elena Innocenti, KULeuven, Leuven, Belgium, Arnaud Beck, Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS-IN2P3, France, Stefano Markidis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden and Giovanni Lapenta, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
 
2D PIC Simulations of Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection for a Force-Free Current Sheet
Fiona Wilson1, Thomas Neukirch1 and Michael Hesse2, (1)University of St Andrews, St Andrews, KY16, United Kingdom, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Status of the Next-Generation OpenGGCM Model
Kai Germaschewski1, Joachim Raeder1, Amitava Bhattacharjee2, Liwei Lin1, Kristofor-Ryan M Maynard1 and Liang Wang1, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (2)Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
Integrating kinetic effects in fluid models for magnetic reconnection
Liang Wang1, Ammar Hakim2, Amitava Bhattacharjee2 and Kai Germaschewski3, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (2)Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
 
Parameter regimes of applicability of the CGL equations of state in PIC simulations of fast magnetic reconnection
Raymond L Fermo, Paul Cassak and Robert Baylor, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States
 
Scaling of magnetic reconnection in low and high-β regimes
Adam Stanier, Andrei N Simakov, Luis Chacon and William S Daughton, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Exact Vlasov Solutions of Kinetic Flux Ropes
Chung-Sang Ng, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
Dynamic Response of Magnetic Reconnection Due to Current Sheet Variability
Don E George1,2, Jörg-Micha Jahn3, James L Burch4, Michael Hesse5 and Craig J Pollock5, (1)University of Texas at San Antonio, Physics and Astronomy, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (3)Southwest Research Inst, San Antonio, TX, United States, (4)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Acceleration of Oxygen ions by Magnetic Reconnection
Haoming Liang, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Maha Ashour-Abdalla, UCLA-IGPP, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Giovanni Lapenta, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium and Raymond J Walker, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Effective Resistivity Models Evaluated in Kinetic Studies in the Framework of MHD Approach
Mitsue Den1, Ritoku Horiuchi2, Shunsuke Usami2, Takashi Tanaka3 and Hiroaki Ohtani2, (1)NICT National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo, Japan, (2)NIFS National Institute for Fusion Science, Gifu, Japan, (3)Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
 
Magnetic configuration in ion diffusion region
Yongcun Zhang1, Chao Shen1, Zhenxing Liu1 and Zhaojin Rong2, (1)NSSC/CSSAR,CAS, SKL of Space Weather, Beijing, China, (2)Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China