SM41I
Electron to Ion Scale Observations of Magnetic Reconnection I

Thursday, 17 December 2015: 08:00-10:00
2018 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  James L Burch, Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States
Conveners:  Roy B Torbert, Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, Thomas Earle Moore, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Barbara L Giles, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Chairs:  Thomas Earle Moore, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Barbara L Giles, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Barbara L Giles, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
08:00
Exploring Magnetopause Reconnection with MMS (75764)
James L Burch1, Roy B Torbert2,3, Thomas Earle Moore4, Craig J Pollock5, Barry Mauk6, Stephen A Fuselier3, Rumi Nakamura7, Michael Hesse8, Robert Ergun9, Barbara L Giles8, Tai Phan10 and Daniel N. Baker11, (1)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (7)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (9)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (11)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
08:15
First MMS Observations of High Time Resolution 3D Electric and Magnetic fields at the Dayside Magnetopause. (72406)
Roy B Torbert1, James L Burch2, Christopher T Russell3, Werner Magnes4, Robert E Ergun5, Per-Arne Lindqvist6, Olivier Le Contel7, Hans Vaith1, John Macri8, Steven Myers8, David Rau9, Jerry Needell8, Brian King8, Mark Granoff8, Mark Chutter9, Ivan Dors9, Matthew R Argall1, Jason R Shuster1, Goran Olsson6, Goran Tage Marklund10, Yuri V Khotyaintsev11, Anders I Eriksson11, Craig Kletzing12, Scott R Bounds12, Brian J Anderson13, Wolfgang Baumjohann14, Manfred Steller4, Kenneth R Bromund15, Guan Le15, Rumi Nakamura16, Robert J Strangeway17, Hannes Karl Leinweber18, Scott Tucker19, Jim Westfall19, David Fischer20, Ferdinand Plaschke20, Craig J Pollock21, Barbara L Giles15, Thomas Earle Moore22, Barry Mauk23 and Stephen A Fuselier2, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (5)University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (7)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (UMR7648), CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/UPMC/Univ. Paris Sud/Obs. de Paris, Paris, France, (8)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (9)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (10)Royal Inst Technology, KTH/EES, Stockholm, Sweden, (11)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (12)University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, (13)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (14)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (15)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (16)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, (17)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (18)Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (19)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (20)IWF Institute for Space Research, Graz, Austria, (21)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (22)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (23)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States
08:30
MMS Observations of Parallel Electric Fields (73616)
Robert Ergun1, Katherine Goodrich2, Frederick D Wilder2, Andrew Paul Sturner3, Justin Holmes3, Julia E Stawarz3, David Malaspina4, Maria Usanova2, Roy B Torbert5, Per-Arne Lindqvist6, Yuri V Khotyaintsev7, James L Burch8, Robert J Strangeway9, Christopher T Russell10, Craig J Pollock11, Barbara L Giles12, Michael Hesse12, Martin V Goldman2, James Frederick Drake13, Tai Phan14 and Rumi Nakamura15, (1)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Colorado, Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (6)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (7)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (8)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (9)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (10)University of California Los Angeles, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (11)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (12)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (13)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (14)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (15)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
08:45
Three Dimensional Structure of the Electron and Ion Scales of Reconnection (71079)
Maha Ashour-Abdalla1, Giovanni Lapenta2, Raymond J Walker3, Mostafa El-Alaoui1, Haoming Liang1, Meng Zhou4, Melvyn L Goldstein5 and RECONNECTION TEAM, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)Nanchang University, Nanchang, China, (5)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
08:57
Low-frequency wave activity related to dipolarization fronts detected by MMS in the magnetotail (78753)
Alessandro Retino, Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (UMR7648), CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/UPMC/Univ. Paris Sud/Obs. de Paris, Paris, France
09:09
The kinetic scale structure of the Plasma Sheet Boundary Layer: Implications of collisionless magnetic reconnection and first MMS observations (79797)
John Dorelli1, Daniel J Gershman1, Levon A Avanov1, Craig J Pollock2, Barbara L Giles1, Rumi Nakamura3, Li-Jen Chen1, Roy B Torbert4, Ulrik Gliese1, Alexander C Barrie5, Matthew P Holland1, Michael O Chandler6, Victoria N Coffey6, Elizabeth MacDonald1, Chad Salo7, Charles Dickson8, Yoshifumi Saito9, Christopher T Russell10, Wolfgang Baumjohann11 and James L Burch12, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, (4)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, (SGT Inc.), Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (7)Stellar Solutions, Palo Alto, CA, United States, (8)AS and D, Inc., Beltsville, MD, United States, (9)ISAS Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Kanagawa, Japan, (10)University of California Los Angeles, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (11)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (12)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
09:21
The Structure of the Electron Diffusion Region in Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection (62922)
Michael Hesse1, Yi-Hsin Liu1, Li-Jen Chen1, Maria M Kuznetsova1, Joachim Birn2 and James L Burch3, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Space Science Institute, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
09:36
Observations of 3-D Electric Fields and Waves Associated With Reconnection at the Dayside Magnetopause (67173)
Frederick D Wilder1, Robert Ergun2, Katherine Goodrich1, David Malaspina3, Stefan Eriksson4, Julia E Stawarz4, Andrew Paul Sturner4, Justin Holmes4, James L Burch5, Roy B Torbert6, Tai Phan7, Olivier Le Contel8, Martin V Goldman1, David L Newman1, Per-Arne Lindqvist9, Yuri V Khotyaintsev10, Robert J Strangeway11 and Christopher T Russell12, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado, Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (6)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (7)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (8)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (UMR7648), CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/UPMC/Univ. Paris Sud/Obs. de Paris, Paris, France, (9)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (10)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (11)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (12)University of California Los Angeles, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States
09:48
Comparison of Magnetospheric Multiscale Magnetopause Crossing Signatures With Predicted Reconnection Line Locations (68052)
Steven M Petrinec1, James L Burch2, Stephen A Fuselier2, Roman Garcia Gomez3, William S Lewis3, Karlheinz J Trattner4, Robert E Ergun5, Barry Mauk6, Craig J Pollock7, Conrad Schiff7, Robert J Strangeway8, Tai Phan9 and David T Young3, (1)Lockheed Martin Corporation, Arlington, VA, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (4)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)University of California Los Angeles, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (9)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States