SH43A
Magnetic Reconnection: A Fundamental Process Operating throughout the Universe I Posters

Thursday, 17 December 2015: 13:40-18:00
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Primary Conveners:  William H Matthaeus, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
Conveners:  Marc Swisdak, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Michael A Shay, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States and John Dorelli, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Chairs:  William H Matthaeus, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States and Michael A Shay, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Michael A Shay, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
 
Ion Bernstein waves in a magnetic reconnection region (65061)
Yasuhito Narita1, Rumi Nakamura2, Wolfgang Baumjohann3, Karl-Heinz Glassmeier4, Uwe Motschmann5 and Horia Comisel5, (1)Space Research Institute, Schmiedlstr. 6 A-8042 Graz, Austria, (2)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, (3)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (4)TU Braunschweig, Institute of Geophysics and extraterrestrial Physics, Braunschweig, Germany, (5)TU Braunschweig, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Braunschweig, Germany
 
Transition to Petschek-type Reconnection in Solar Wind Reconnection Exhausts (67014)
Rishi Mistry1, Jonathan P Eastwood2, Tai Phan3 and Heli Hietala1, (1)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, (2)Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (3)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Statistical Study of Core Electron Heating in Solar Wind Reconnection Exhausts (84668)
Marc Pulupa, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Energy of Alfvén waves generated during magnetic reconnection (68183)
Zhi-Wei Ma, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
 
Spatial Dimensions of the Electron Diffusion Region of Anti-Parallel Magnetic Reconnection (68263)
Takuma Nakamura1, Rumi Nakamura1 and Hiroshi Hasegawa2, (1)Space Research Institute (IWF)/Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (2)JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Sagamihara, Japan
 
Energized Heavy Ions and Magnetic Reconnection (70660)
Don E George1, Jörg-Micha Jahn2, James L Burch2 and Stephen A Fuselier2, (1)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
 
DSCOVR Observations of Magnetic Reconnection (84865)
Anthony W Case1, Michael Louis Stevens1, Justin Christophe Kasper2, Adam Szabo3, Andriy Koval3 and Douglas Alan Biesecker4, (1)Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NOAA Boulder, SWPC, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Null Points in Three-Dimensional Kinetic Simulations of Magnetic Reconnection (71981)
Vyacheslav Olshevsky1, Jan Deca2, Andrey V Divin3, Maria Elena Innocenti4, Emanuele Cazzola4, Bo Peng5, Stefano Markidis6, Mac Ormvråk7 and Giovanni Lapenta1, (1)KU Leuven, Center for Mathematical Plasma Astrophysics, Leuven, Belgium, (2)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Swedish Inst of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden, (4)Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, (5)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, HPCViz, Stockholm, Sweden, (6)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (7)EnginZyme, Stockholm, Sweden
 
Slip versus Field-Line Mapping in Describing 3D Reconnection of Coronal Magnetic Fields (73666)
Viacheslav S Titov, Zoran Mikic, Tibor Torok, Cooper Downs, Roberto Lionello and Jon Linker, Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, CA, United States
 
3D Model of Slip-Running Reconnection on Solar Sigmoidal Regions (79136)
Brianna Douglas1, Antonia Stefanova Savcheva1 and Edward E DeLuca2, (1)Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)SAO, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
Full Two-Fluid Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection Simulations (74860)
Daniel O Gomez, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
 
Partially Ionized Plasma Three-Fluid Modeling of Magnetic Reconnection in the Sun Chromosphere (83277)
Alejandro Alvarez Laguna, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centre for mathematical Plasma-Astrophysics, Leuven, Belgium
 
Simulation of 3-D Magnetic Reconnection by Gyrokinetic Electron and Fully Kinetic Ion Particle Model (75230)
Xueyi Wang, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, United States, Yu Lin, Auburn University at Montgomery, Auburn, AL, United States and Liu Chen, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
 
Effects of Temperature on Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection Properties (75129)
Kittipat Malakit1, Paul Cassak2, Rungployphan Kieokaew1, Michael A Shay3 and David J Ruffolo1, (1)Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, (2)West Virginia University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Morgantown, WV, United States, (3)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
 
Energy Conversion and Particle Acceleration during Magnetic Reconnection in Solar Flare Plasma (75742)
Xiaocan Li1, Fan Guo2, Hui Li2 and Gang Li1, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Particle Acceleration in 3D Magnetic Reconnection (79676)
Joel Dahlin, James Frederick Drake and Marc Swisdak, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
 
Resistive Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Fast Reconnection in Thin Current Sheets: Analysis of the Linear and Nonlinear Stages of the "Ideal" Tearing Mode (78491)
Simone Landi1, Luca Del Zanna1 and Emanuele Papini2, (1)University of Florence, Florence, Italy, (2)Max-Planck-Insitut, Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany
 
Ideal Tearing in the Hall Regime (86425)
Fulvia Pucci1, Marco Velli2 and Anna Tenerani2, (1)University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Drift Wave Turbulence and Magnetic Reconnection (79552)
Lora Price, James Frederick Drake and Marc Swisdak, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
 
Shear-Driven Reconnection in Kinetic Models (79603)
Carrie Black1, Spiro K Antiochos2, Kai Germaschewski3, Judith T Karpen2, C Richard DeVore2 and Naoki Bessho4, (1)Self Employed, Washington, DC, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (4)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
 
Trigger of Fast Reconnection via Collapsing Current Sheets (75489)
Anna Tenerani1, Marco Velli1, Antonio F Rappazzo2 and Fulvia Pucci3, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Advanced Heliophysics, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
 
The effect of guide-field and boundary conditions on the features and signatures of collisionless magnetic reconnection in a stressed X-point collapse (76905)
Jan Graf von der Pahlen, Queen Mary, University of London, Physics, London, United Kingdom and David Tsiklauri, Queen Mary, University of London, London, United Kingdom
 
Nongyrotropic electrons in guide field reconnection. (82813)
Deirdre E Wendel1, Michael Hesse1, Mark L Adrian1, Naoki Bessho2 and Maria M Kuznetsova1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
 
Electron Energization in Reconnection Outflows with Kinetic Riemann Simulations (79582)
Qile Zhang, James Frederick Drake and Marc Swisdak, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
 
Evidence of magnetic field switch-off in Particle In Cell simulations of collisionless magnetic reconnection with guide field (68348)
Maria Elena Innocenti1, Martin V Goldman2, David L Newman2, Stefano Markidis3 and Giovanni Lapenta4, (1)KULeuven, Leuven, Belgium, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (4)Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
 
Effects from switching on PIC simulations: Geospace Environmental Modeling (GEM) reconnection setup revisited (68060)
Philippe A Bourdin, Takuma Nakamura and Yasuhito Narita, Space Research Institute (IWF)/Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria