SM42A
Electron to Ion Scale Observations of Magnetic Reconnection II

Thursday, 17 December 2015: 10:20-12:20
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:  James L Burch, Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States and Roy B Torbert, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Barbara L Giles, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
10:20
High Resolution Plasma Measurements From The Fast Plasma Investigation On Magnetospheric Multiscale (80289)
Craig J Pollock, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States
10:50
Features of the Active Evening Plasma Sheet from MMS (73941)
Thomas Earle Moore, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States
11:05
MMS High-Resolution Observations of the Magnetopause Reconnection Layer (80987)
Tai Phan1, James L Burch2, Roy B Torbert3, Craig J Pollock4, Daniel J Gershman4, Robert J Strangeway5, John Dorelli6, Michael A Shay7, Mitsuo Oka1, Barbara L Giles6, Robert Ergun8 and Frederick D Wilder8, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (8)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
11:20
Measures Of Diffusion Regions Applied To PIC Reconnection Simulations (64907)
Martin V Goldman1, David L Newman1 and Giovanni Lapenta2, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
11:32
MMS observations of kinetic-scale structure in a magnetic depression (70929)
Daniel J Gershman1, John Dorelli2, Adolfo F. Vinas2, Levon A Avanov2, Ulrik Gliese2, Alexander Barrie2, Victoria N Coffey3, Michael O Chandler3, Charles Dickson4, Elizabeth MacDonald2, Chad Salo5, Matthew P Holland2, Yoshifumi Saito6, Li-Jen Chen2, Katherine Goodrich7, Ferdinand Plaschke8, Christopher T Russell9, Robert J Strangeway10, Roy B Torbert11, Barbara L Giles2 and Craig J Pollock12, (1)Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)AS and D, Inc., Beltsville, MD, United States, (5)Stellar Solutions, Palo Alto, CA, United States, (6)ISAS Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Kanagawa, Japan, (7)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)IWF Institute for Space Research, Graz, Austria, (9)University of California Los Angeles, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (10)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (11)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (12)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States
11:56
3D Ion and Electron Distribution Function Measurements from the Fast Plasma Investigation on the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (81830)
Barbara L Giles1, Craig J Pollock2, Levon A Avanov1, Alexander C Barrie3, James L Burch4, Michael O Chandler5, George B Clark6, Victoria N Coffey5, Charles Dickson7, John Dorelli1, Robert E Ergun8, Stephen A Fuselier9, Daniel J Gershman10, Ulrik Gliese1, Matthew P Holland1, Arthur D Jacques1, Stephen Kreisler1, Benoit Lavraud11, Elizabeth MacDonald1, Barry Mauk12, Thomas Earle Moore13, Toshifumi Mukai14, Rumi Nakamura15, William R Paterson1, Amy Catherine Rager16, Yoshifumi Saito17, Chad Salo1, Jean-Andre Sauvaud18, Roy B Torbert9,19, Adolfo F. Vinas1 and Shoichiro Yokota14, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, (SGT Inc.), Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (5)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (6)Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, (7)AS and D, Inc., Beltsville, MD, United States, (8)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (10)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar System Exploration Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (11)IRAP, Toulouse, France, (12)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (13)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (14)ISAS Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Sagamihara, Japan, (15)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, (16)Catholic University of America, Physics, Washington, DC, United States, (17)JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan, (18)IRAP/CNRS, Toulouse, France, (19)Univ of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
12:08
THEMIS statistical study of double population ion and electron boundary layers: implications for MMS (61884)
Christian Jacquey1, Benoit Lavraud1, Timothée Achilli1, Stephen A Fuselier2, James P McFadden3 and Vassilis Angelopoulos4, (1)IRAP, Toulouse, France, (2)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States