SM51A
Electron to Ion Scale Observations of Magnetic Reconnection IV Posters

Friday, 18 December 2015: 08:00-12:20
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
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
 
DC and AC Electric Field Measurements by Spin-Plane Double Probes Onboard MMS (81774)
Per-Arne Lindqvist1, Goran Tage Marklund1, Yuri V Khotyaintsev2, Robert E Ergun3, Katherine Goodrich3, Roy B Torbert4,5, Matthew R Argall4 and Rumi Nakamura6, (1)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (2)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (3)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (5)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (6)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria
 
An Investigation of Perpendicular Gradients of Parallel Electric Field in Separatrix Regions in Using the Magnetosphere Multiscale Mission (48358)
Andrew Paul Sturner1, Robert E Ergun2, David L Newman3, Giovanni Lapenta4, Roy B Torbert5, Per-Arne Lindqvist6, Yuri V Khotyaintsev7, Jerry Needell8, Christopher T Russell9, Robert J Strangeway9, James L Burch10, Frederick D Wilder3, Katherine Goodrich3, Julia E Stawarz1, Justin Holmes1, David Malaspina11 and Maria Usanova3, (1)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, (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)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (9)University of California Los Angeles, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (10)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (11)University of Colorado, Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Asymmetric kinetic equilibria: demonstration of the independence of magnetic reconnection signatures to the initial current sheet structure. (60818)
Dargent Jérémy, Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, Saint-Maur Des Fossés Cedex, France; IRAP, Toulouse, France
 
An MMS multicase study of magnetotail dipolarization fronts (60861)
Daniel Schmid1,2, Rumi Nakamura1, Ferdinand Plaschke1, Martin Volwerk1, Yasuhito Narita1, Wolfgang Baumjohann1, Werner Magnes1, David Fischer1, Roy B Torbert3,4, Christopher T Russell5, Robert J Strangeway5, Hannes Karl Leinweber5, Kenneth R Bromund6, Brian J Anderson7, Guan Le6, Mark Chutter3, James A Slavin8, Larry Kepko6, Mark Moldwin8 and Olivier Le Contel9, (1)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (2)University of Graz, NAWI, Graz, Austria, (3)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (4)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (5)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (8)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (9)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, Paris, France
 
How to Find Magnetic Nulls and Reconstruct Field Topology with MMS Data? (61443)
Huishan Fu1, Andris Vaivads2, Yuri V Khotyaintsev3, Vyacheslav Olshevsky4, Mats Andre3, Jinbin Cao5, Shiyong Huang6, Alessandro Retino7 and Giovanni Lapenta8, (1)Space Science Institute, School of Astronautics, Beihang University, Beijing, China, (2)Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden, (3)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (4)KU Leuven, Dover, NH, United States, (5)Beihang University, Beijing, China, (6)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, Saint-Maur Des Fossés Cedex, France, (7)CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, (8)Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
 
Calibrating MMS Electron Drift Instrument (EDI) Ambient Electron Flux Measurements and Characterizing 3D Electric Field Signatures of Magnetic Reconnection (63775)
Jason R Shuster1, Roy B Torbert1, Hans Vaith1, Matthew R Argall1, Guanlai Li1, Li-Jen Chen2, Robert E Ergun3, Per-Arne Lindqvist4, Goran Tage Marklund5, Yuri V Khotyaintsev6, Christopher T Russell7, Werner Magnes8, Olivier Le Contel9, Craig J Pollock10 and Barbara L Giles2, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (5)Royal Inst Technology, KTH/EES, Stockholm, Sweden, (6)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (7)University of California Los Angeles, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (8)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (9)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (UMR7648), CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/UPMC/Univ. Paris Sud/Obs. de Paris, Paris, France, (10)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Concepts and Results of New Method for Accurate Ground and In-Flight Calibration of the Particle Spectrometers of the Fast Plasma Investigation on NASA’s Magnetospheric MultiScale Mission (85632)
Ulrik Gliese1, Daniel J Gershman2, John Dorelli1, Levon A Avanov1, Alexander C Barrie3, George B Clark4, Joseph T Kujawski5, Albert J. Mariano1, Victoria N Coffey6, Corey J Tucker7, Dennis J Chornay8, Nga T Cao1,9, Michael A Zeuch10, Charles Dickson11, Darrell L Smith9, Chad Salo12, Elizabeth MacDonald1, Stephen Kreisler13, Arthur D Jacques1, Barbara L Giles1 and Craig J Pollock14, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar System Exploration Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, (SGT Inc.), Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, (5)Siena College, Physics, Loudonville, NY, United States, (6)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (7)Global Science & Technology, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (9)Orbital Sciences Corporation, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems, Linthicum Heights, MD, United States, (11)AS and D, Inc., Beltsville, MD, United States, (12)Stellar Solutions, Palo Alto, CA, United States, (13)Columbus Technologies and Services, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (14)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
In Flight Calibration of the Magnetospheric Multisale Mission Fast Plasma Investigation: Initial Flight Result (70460)
Alexander Barrie1, Ulrik Gliese1, Daniel J Gershman2, Levon A Avanov1, Amy Catherine Rager3, Craig J Pollock4 and John Dorelli1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)Catholic University of America, Physics, Washington, DC, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Extending Observations of Phase-Space Holes and Double Layers to Consider Electron Cyclotron Maser Emission (63905)
Justin Holmes, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Orientation of x-lines in asymmetric magnetic reconnection -- application to Earth's magnetopause (65209)
Yi-Hsin Liu, Michael Hesse and Masha Kuznetsova, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Multi-point, multi-scale observation of the near-Earth current sheet reconfiguration during storm-time multi-onset substorms (65961)
Rumi Nakamura1, Wolfgang Baumjohann1, Ferdinand Plaschke2, Yasuhito Narita3, Daniel Schmid4, Evgeny V Panov5, Maria Andriopoulou5, Zoltan Voros4, Werner Magnes1, David Fischer4, Manfred Steller1, James L Burch6, Roy B Torbert7, Christopher T Russell8, Robert J Strangeway9, Hannes Karl Leinweber10, Guan Le11, Kenneth R Bromund11, Brian J Anderson12, Mark Chutter13, James A Slavin14, Larry Kepko11, Hans Vaith7, Olivier Le Contel15, Matthew R Argall7, Robert E Ergun16, Per-Arne Lindqvist17, Goran Tage Marklund18, Yuri V Khotyaintsev19, Craig J Pollock20, John Dorelli11, Daniel J Gershman21, Stephen A Fuselier6, Barry Mauk22, Daniel N. Baker23, Barbara L Giles11, Thomas Earle Moore24, Howard J Singer25, Victor A Sergeev26 and C Philippe Escoubet27, (1)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (2)IWF ÖAW, Graz, Austria, (3)Space Research Institute, Schmiedlstr. 6 A-8042 Graz, Austria, (4)IWF Institute for Space Research, Graz, Austria, (5)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, (6)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (7)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (8)University of California Los Angeles, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (9)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (10)Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (11)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (12)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (13)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (14)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (15)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (UMR7648), CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/UPMC/Univ. Paris Sud/Obs. de Paris, Paris, France, (16)University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (17)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (18)Royal Inst Technology, KTH/EES, Stockholm, Sweden, (19)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (20)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (21)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (22)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (23)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (24)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (25)NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (26)St Petersburg State University, St Petersburg, Russia, (27)ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands
 
Bursty Bulk Flow Turbulence as Observed by the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (66502)
Julia E Stawarz1, Robert Ergun2, Katherine Goodrich3, Frederick D Wilder3, James L Burch4, Andrew Paul Sturner1, Justin Holmes1, David Malaspina5, Maria Usanova3, Roy B Torbert6, Per-Arne Lindqvist7, Yuri V Khotyaintsev8, Christopher T Russell9, Robert J Strangeway9, Craig J Pollock10, Werner Magnes11, Mark Chutter12, Jerry Needell13, David Rau12, Olivier Le Contel14 and Barbara L Giles15, (1)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (5)University of Colorado, Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (7)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (8)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (9)University of California Los Angeles, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (10)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (11)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (12)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (13)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (14)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (UMR7648), CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/UPMC/Univ. Paris Sud/Obs. de Paris, Paris, France, (15)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Observation of electron diffusion region during magnetotail reconnection (66524)
Mitsuo Oka1, Tai Phan1, Marit Oieroset1 and Vassilis Angelopoulos2, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
First Investigation on the Magnetic Curvature Distribution in the Magnetic Diffusion Region (66846)
Yongcun Zhang, NSSC National Space Science Center, CAS, SKL of Space Weather, Beijing, China, Chao Shen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Zhenxing Liu, NSSC National Space Science Center, CAS, Beijing, China, Aurelie Marchaudon, IRAP, Toulouse, France and Zhaojin Rong, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
 
SPDF Data and Orbit Services Supporting Open Access, Use and Archiving of MMS Data (67376)
Robert E McGuire, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 670, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
SPDF Ancillary Services and Technologies Supporting Open Access, Use and Archiving of MMS Data (67442)
Robert M Candey1, Dieter Bilitza1,2, Reine Chimiak3, John F Cooper1, Leonard N Garcia4,5, Bernard T Harris3, H Kent Hills6,7, Rita C Johnson1,7, Tamara J Kovalick1,7, Nand Lal1, Howard A Leckner1,7, Michael H Liu1,7, Robert E McGuire1, Natalia E Papitashvili1,7, D Aaron Roberts1, Ronald E Yurow1,7 and Space Physics Data Facility, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 670, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 580, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 605, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Wyle Information Systems, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 690.1, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)ADNET Systems Inc. Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Plasma Distributions and Composition at the Magnetopause: MMS HPCA observations (67724)
Karlheinz J Trattner1, James L Burch2, Robert E Ergun3, Stephen A Fuselier2, Roman Garcia Gomez4, William S Lewis2, Barry Mauk5, Steven M Petrinec6, Craig J Pollock7, Tai Phan8 and David T Young4, (1)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (3)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (5)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (6)Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto, CA, United States, (7)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Velocity Space Evolution of Dayside Reconnection Outflow (68247)
Jeffrey Michael Broll, Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, Stephen A Fuselier, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States and Karlheinz J Trattner, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Search For Secondary Magnetic Islands At The Dayside Magnetopause (68399)
Sarah K. Vines, Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, Stephen A Fuselier, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, Karlheinz J Trattner, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States and Steven M Petrinec, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Arlington, VA, United States
 
Reconstruction of the Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection Region at the Magnetopause (68988)
Ruilong Guo1, Zuyin Pu1, Lun Xie1 and Suiyan Fu2, (1)Peking University, Beijing, China, (2)Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China
 
Search Coil and Fluxgate Data Merging on MMS: Examples on Dipolarization Event Cases (69262)
David Fischer and Ferdinand Plaschke, IWF Institute for Space Research, Graz, Austria
 
Gyrotropy During Magnetic Reconnection (69708)
Marc Swisdak, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
 
Data Access and Tools for the Magnetospheric Multiscale Energetic Ion Spectrometer (and Others) (70268)
Lawrence E Brown, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, SES, Laurel, MD, United States
 
MMS observations of small magnetic flux ropes in the near‐tail (X > ‐11 Re) (70595)
James A Slavin1, Gangkai Poh1, Guan Le2, Robert J Strangeway3, Christopher T Russell4, Brian J Anderson5, David Fischer6, Ferdinand Plaschke6, Kenneth R Bromund2, Hannes Karl Leinweber7, Larry Kepko2, Mark Chutter8, Olivier Le Contel9, Roy B Torbert10, Rumi Nakamura11, Werner Magnes12 and Wolfgang Baumjohann13, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)University of California Los Angeles, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (6)IWF Institute for Space Research, Graz, Austria, (7)Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (8)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (9)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (UMR7648), CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/UPMC/Univ. Paris Sud/Obs. de Paris, Paris, France, (10)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (11)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, (12)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (13)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria
 
Examining Turbulence in the Plasma Sheet and its Role in Transport (71968)
Mostafa El-Alaoui1, Maha Ashour-Abdalla1, Giovanni Lapenta2 and Robert L Richard3, (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, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
In Situ Detection of Coalescence of Magnetic Flux Rope during Magnetic Reconnection (71984)
Rongsheng Wang, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
 
Three-dimensional Transient Magnetic Reconnection and Dipolarization Fronts in the Terrestrial Magnetotail (73752)
Meng Zhou1,2, Xiaohua Deng1, Maha Ashour-Abdalla3, Ye Pang1, Giovanni Lapenta4, Huishan Fu5, Raymond J Walker6, Shiyong Huang7 and Rongxin Tang1, (1)Nanchang University, Nanchang, China, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, (5)Beihang University, Space Science Institute, School of Astronautics, Beijing, China, (6)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (7)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, Saint-Maur Des Fossés Cedex, France
 
Impact of Heavy Ions on Reconnection Rate and Dipolarization Fronts during Magnetotail Reconnection (74350)
Haoming Liang1, Maha Ashour-Abdalla1, Giovanni Lapenta2 and Raymond J Walker3, (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
 
Plasma Waves Around Separatrix in Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection with Weak Guide Field (74661)
Yangao Chen1, Keizo Fujimoto2, Chijie Xiao1 and Hantao Ji3, (1)Peking University, Beijing, China, (2)NAOJ, Mitaka, Japan, (3)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
Electron and ion distribution functions in magnetopause reconnection (76075)
Shan Wang1,2, Li-Jen Chen1,2, Naoki Bessho1,2, Michael Hesse2, Lynn M Kistler3, Roy B Torbert3, Christopher Mouikis3 and Craig J Pollock2, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
 
Two types of flow reversal events observed in magnetotail (76532)
Iku Shinohara1,2, Tsugunobu Nagai3, Masaki Fujimoto2, Hirotsugu Kojima4 and Seiji Zenitani5, (1)JAXA, Sagamihara Kanagawa, Japan, (2)ISAS/JAXA, Kanagawa, Japan, (3)Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, (4)Kyoto University, Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto, Japan, (5)NAOJ National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo, Japan
 
Component Reconnection Versus Component Magnetic Reconfiguration (77225)
Ling-Hsiao Lyu, NCU National Central University of Taiwan, Jhongli, Taiwan
 
Magnetic islands formed due to the Kelvin-Helmholz instability in the outflow region of collisionless magnetic reconnection (77342)
Quanming Lu1, Can Huang1, Fan Guo2, Mingyu Wu1 and Aimin Du3, (1)University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (2)Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
 
Laboratory study of ion and electron dynamics during asymmetric magnetic reconnection (79012)
Jongsoo Yoo1, Jonathan Jara-Almonte1, Masaaki Yamada1, Hantao Ji1, William R Fox II1, Li-Jen Chen2, Vadim Roytershteyn3 and Ben Na1, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)SciberQuest, Inc, Atlanta, GA, United States
 
Parallel Electric Fields and Wave Phenomena Associated with Magnetic Reconnection: The Merged Magnetic Field Product from MMS (79035)
Matthew R Argall1, Roy B Torbert1, Olivier Le Contel2, Christopher T Russell3, Werner Magnes4, Robert J Strangeway3, Kenneth R Bromund5, Per-Arne Lindqvist6, Goran Tage Marklund7, Robert E Ergun8 and Yuri V Khotyaintsev9, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (2)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (UMR7648), CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/UPMC/Univ. Paris Sud/Obs. de Paris, Paris, France, (3)University of California Los Angeles, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (7)Royal Inst Technology, KTH/EES, Stockholm, Sweden, (8)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
 
Experimental Studies on the 3D Macro- and Microphysics of Magnetic Reconnection (79198)
Jonathan Jara-Almonte, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
Electron motion and distribution functions in the diffusion region of asymmetric reconnection (79685)
Naoki Bessho1, Li-Jen Chen2 and Michael Hesse2, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Observational Study of Ion Diffusion Region tailward of the Cusp: Polar and Cluster Observations in 1998-2008 (80094)
Fathima Muzleena Muzamil1, Charles J Farrugia1, Roy B Torbert1, Matthew R Argall1 and Shan Wang2, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
 
Local properties of the reconnecting magnetotail current sheet: a statistical study using Geotail and Cluster (80577)
Kevin James Genestreti1, Stephen A Fuselier2, Jerry Goldstein2, Tsugunobu Nagai3 and Jonathan P Eastwood4, (1)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (3)Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, (4)Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom
 
Energy Dependence of Electron Anisotropy and Agyrotropy from PIC Simulations of Tail Reconnection (80618)
David L Newman1, Martin V Goldman1, Giovanni Lapenta2 and Jonathan P Eastwood3, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, (3)Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom
 
Laboratory Study of Magnetic Reconnection in 3D Geometry Relevant to Magnetopause and Magnetotail (80689)
Yang Ren1,2, Quanming Lu3, Hantao Ji1, Aohua Mao2, Xiaogang Wang2, Peng E2, Zhibin Wang2, Qingmei Xiao2, Weixing Ding4 and Jinxing Zheng5, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)HIT Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, (3)USTC University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)ASIPP, Hefei, China
 
In-Flight Calibration Processes for the MMS Fluxgate Magnetometers (80995)
Kenneth R Bromund1, Hannes Karl Leinweber2, Ferdinand Plaschke3, Robert J Strangeway4, Werner Magnes5, David Fischer3, Rumi Nakamura6, Brian J Anderson7, Christopher T Russell8, Wolfgang Baumjohann5, Mark Chutter9, Roy B Torbert10, Guan Le1, James A Slavin11 and Larry Kepko1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)IWF Institute for Space Research, Graz, Austria, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (6)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, (7)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (8)University of California Los Angeles, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (9)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (10)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (11)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
 
MMS observations of waves and instabilities in the separatrices and diffusion region of magnetopause reconnection (81014)
Daniel Bruce Graham1, Yuri V Khotyaintsev1, Andris Vaivads1, Mats Andre1, Per-Arne Lindqvist2, Olivier Le Contel3, Robert E Ergun4, Katherine Goodrich5, Roy B Torbert6, Christopher Russell7, Werner Magnes8, Craig J Pollock9, Barry Mauk10 and Stephen A Fuselier11, (1)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (2)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (3)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (UMR7648), CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/UPMC/Univ. Paris Sud/Obs. de Paris, Paris, France, (4)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (7)Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, (8)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (11)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
 
The Fast Plasma Investigation on the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (82244)
Amy Catherine Rager, Catholic University of America, Physics, Washington, DC, United States
 
The MMS Science Data Center: Operations, Capabilities, and Resource. (82540)
Kristopher William Larsen, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Structure of Lower Hybrid Wave Activity in Magnetic Reconnection Regions (84068)
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