SM13D:
Plasma Sheet Instabilities and Magnetotail Origins of Auroral Structures I Posters

Monday, 15 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Ping Zhu, University of Science and Technology of China, Department of Modern Physics, Hefei, China; Univ Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States and Joachim Raeder, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
Primary Conveners:  Ping Zhu, Univ Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States; University of Science and Technology of China, Department of Modern Physics, Hefei, China
Co-conveners:  Joachim Raeder, Space Science Ctr, Durham, NH, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Joachim Raeder, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Gyrokinetic Theory of Electromagnetic Drift Instabilities Near the Center of a Harris Current Sheet with Guide Field
Kurt Tummel1, Liu Chen1 and Zhenyu Wang2, (1)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)Auburn University at Montgomery, Auburn, AL, United States
 
Dispersive scale Alfven waves associated with broadband aurora: Results of 2-D gyrofluid-kinetic electron simulations
Peter A Damiano1, Jay Johnson1 and Christopher Carew Chaston2, (1)Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Quasi-separatrix Layers Induced by Ballooning Instability in Near-Earth Magnetotail*
Ping Zhu1,2, Arash Sangari2 and Phillip Bonofiglo2, (1)University of Science and Technology of China, Department of Modern Physics, Hefei, China, (2)Univ Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States
 
Kelvin-Helmholtz Unstable Magnetotail Flow Channels: Deceleration and Radiation of MHD Waves
Hava Turkakin1, Ian Robert Mann1 and Robert Rankin2, (1)University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (2)Univ Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
 
Signal Propagation from the Tail to the Ionosphere
Banafsheh Ferdousi1,2 and Joachim Raeder2, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (2)Space Science Ctr, Durham, NH, United States
 
The Substorm Gordian Knot: Onset Patterns and Frequencies
Emily Irene Sobel, SUNY College at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY, United States and Larry Kepko, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Relative Timing of Substorm-Associated Processes in the Near-Earth Magnetotail and Development of Auroral Onset Arc
Yukinaga Miyashita1, Akimasa Ieda1, Shinobu Machida1, Yasutaka Hiraki2, Vassilis Angelopoulos3, James P McFadden4, Hans Ulrich Auster5, Stephen B Mende4, Eric Donovan6 and Davin E Larson4, (1)Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, (2)National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, (6)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
 
Catapult current sheet relaxation model confirmed by THEMIS observations
Shinobu Machida1, Yukinaga Miyashita1, Akimasa Ieda1, Masahito Nose2, Vassilis Angelopoulos3 and James P McFadden4, (1)Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, (2)Kyoto University, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto, Japan, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Statistical study of auroral fragmentation into patches
Ayumi Hashimoto1, Kazuo Shiokawa1, Yuichi Otsuka1, Shin-ichiro Oyama1, Satonori Nozawa1, Tomoaki Hori1 and Mark Lester2, (1)Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, (2)University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
 
Comparison of Electromagnetic Field Signatures in Regions of Dispersive and Quasi-Static Electron Precipitation During the GREECE Sounding Rocket Flight
John W Bonnell1, Nathan Carruth1, Amanda Slagle1, Marilia Samara2, Robert Michell3, Guy Alan Grubbs II4, Keiichi Ogasawara3 and Jörg-Micha Jahn3, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (4)University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States
 
Development of Ground-Based Auroral Photometry Techniques Using In-Situ Electron Precipitation Measurements from the GREECE Mission
Guy Alan Grubbs II, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, Marilia Samara, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Robert Michell, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States and Donald Hampton, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
Electron Precipitation Associated with Small-Scale Auroral Structures
Robert Michell1, Marilia Samara2, Guy Alan Grubbs II3, Donald L Hampton4, John W Bonnell5 and Keiichi Ogasawara1, (1)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (4)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (5)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Determining Earth’s magnetotail structure from low-altitude isotropic boundaries
Raluca Ilie1, Natalia Y Ganushkina1 and Michael Warren Liemohn2, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States