SM43A
Electron to Ion Scale Observations of Magnetic Reconnection III

Thursday, 17 December 2015: 13:40-15:40
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
13:40
Ion Species-Dependent Effects in Magnetic Reconnection: MMS Hot Plasma Composition Analyzer (HPCA) Initial Results (Invited) (68011)
Stephen A Fuselier1,2, James L Burch3, Don E George3, Roman Garcia Gomez1, William S Lewis1, Barry Mauk4, Rumi Nakamura5, Nikolaos Paschalidis6, Steven M Petrinec7, Craig J Pollock8, Roy B Torbert9, Karlheinz J Trattner10, Sarah K. Vines3, James M Webster1 and David T Young1, (1)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)University of Texas at San Antonio, Department of Physics & Astronomy, San Antonio, TX, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (4)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (5)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, (6)NASA/GSFC-Heliophysics Sci, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)Lockheed Martin Corporation, Arlington, VA, United States, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (9)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (10)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States
13:55
Effect of electron ambient plasmas in reconnection jets and dipolarization fronts : MMS initial results (Invited) (64440)
Rumi Nakamura1, Klaus Torkar2, Maria Andriopoulou3, Harald Jeszenszky1, Ferdinand Plaschke4, Wolfgang Baumjohann1, Werner Magnes1, David Fischer4, Daniel Schmid4, Manfred Steller1, Takuma Nakamura5, Carsten Scharlemann6, Roy B Torbert7, James L Burch8, Robert E Ergun9, Per-Arne Lindqvist10, Goran Tage Marklund11, Yuri V Khotyaintsev12, Christopher T Russell13, Robert J Strangeway14, Hannes Karl Leinweber15, Brian J Anderson16, Guan Le17, Kenneth R Bromund17, Stephen A Fuselier8,18, Mark Chutter19, James A Slavin20, Larry Kepko17, Olivier Le Contel21, Craig J Pollock22, John Dorelli17, Daniel J Gershman23, Barry Mauk24, Hans Vaith7, Craig Kletzing25, Scott R Bounds25 and Kristine M Sigsbee25, (1)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (2)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (3)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, (4)IWF Institute for Space Research, Graz, Austria, (5)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Plasma Theory and App, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (6)FHWN, Wiener Neustadt, Austria, (7)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (8)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (9)University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (11)Royal Inst Technology, KTH/EES, Stockholm, Sweden, (12)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (13)University of California Los Angeles, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (14)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (15)Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (16)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (17)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (18)Southwest Res Inst, San Antonio, TX, United States, (19)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (20)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (21)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (UMR7648), CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/UPMC/Univ. Paris Sud/Obs. de Paris, Paris, France, (22)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (23)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (24)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (25)University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
14:10
Current sheet properties derived using multi-point measurements from the Cluster and MMS missions (77713)
Maria Andriopoulou, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
14:22
A Rosetta Stone for in situ Observations of Magnetic Reconnection (72637)
Jack D Scudder, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
14:34
MMS Observations of Dipolarization Fronts (81894)
Melvyn L Goldstein, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Kyoung-Joo Hwang, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, David G Sibeck, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Maha Ashour-Abdalla, University of California Los Angeles, Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Rumi Nakamura, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, James L Burch, Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, Roy B Torbert, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, Thomas Earle Moore, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Robert E Ergun, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Craig J Pollock, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, Barry Mauk, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States and Stephen A Fuselier, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
14:46
Mapping Out the Diffusion Region in Magnetopause Reconnection: from CLUSTER to Magnetospheric Multiscale (85783)
Li-Jen Chen1, Michael Hesse1, Shan Wang2, Craig J Pollock3, Roy B Torbert2, Daniel J Gershman4, John Dorelli1, Barbara L Giles1, Naoki Bessho5, William S Daughton6, James L Burch7 and The MMS Team, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (5)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (6)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Plasma Theory and App, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (7)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
14:58
Sub-solar Magnetopause Observation and Simulation of a Tripolar Guide-Magnetic Field Perturbation (72938)
Stefan Eriksson, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, Paul Cassak, West Virginia University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Morgantown, WV, United States, Alessandro Retino, CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France and Forrest Mozer, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
15:10
MMS Observations of Velocity-dispersed Ion Populations in Earth’s Magnetotail. (72865)
Levon A Avanov1, Michael O Chandler2, Craig J Pollock3, Victoria N Coffey2, Daniel J Gershman4, John Dorelli1, Ulrik Gliese1, Barbara L Giles1, Alexander C Barrie5, Charles Dickson6, Elizabeth MacDonald1, Chad Salo7, Matthew P Holland1, Yoshifumi Saito8, Roy B Torbert9, Christopher T Russell10 and Robert J Strangeway10, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar System Exploration Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, (SGT Inc.), Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)AS and D, Inc., Beltsville, MD, United States, (7)Stellar Solutions, Palo Alto, CA, United States, (8)ISAS Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Kanagawa, Japan, (9)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (10)University of California Los Angeles, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States
15:25
Experimental Evidence for Cerenkov Emission of Whistler Waves by Electron Holes Associated with Magnetic Reconnection (69281)
Jonathan P Eastwood1, Martin V Goldman2, Xiaojia Zhang3, Heli Hietala4, Vratislav Krupar5, David L Newman2, Vassilis Angelopoulos6 and Giovanni Lapenta7, (1)Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, (5)Paris Observatory, Paris, France, (6)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (7)Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium