SM23B:
Magnetospheric Physics: General Contributions Posters

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Session ID#: 14157

Session Description:
This session provides a forum for the latest scientific results relevant to magnetospheric physics that do not fall within the purview of other specific sessions at the fall AGU meeting.
Primary Convener:  Robyn M Millan, Dartmouth College, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hanover, NH, United States
Conveners:  J Todd Hoeksema, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States and Anja Stromme, SRI International Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Chairs:  J Todd Hoeksema, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States and Robyn M Millan, Dartmouth College, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hanover, NH, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Robyn M Millan, Dartmouth College, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hanover, NH, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • SA - SPA-Aeronomy
  • SH - SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics
Index Terms:

2799 General or miscellaneous [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
7899 General or miscellaneous [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
7999 General or miscellaneous [SPACE WEATHER]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Strategy for Improved Representation of Magnetospheric Electric Potential Structure on a Polar-Capped Ionosphere (126434)
Michael Schulz, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center (retired), Palo Alto, CA, United States
On the Magnetospheric Heating Problem (185518)
Katariina Nykyri1, Thomas Moore1, Andrew P Dimmock2, Xuanye Ma3, Jay Johnson4 and Peter A Delamere5, (1)Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, United States, (2)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States, (4)Andrews University, Berrien Springs, United States, (5)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Stability Analysis of the Sub-Magnetosonic Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability in an Unbounded Magnetohydrodynamic Plasma (170366)
Ling-Hsiao Lyu1, Yi-Wei Chang2 and Yu-Chun Huang2, (1)National Central University, Graduate Institute of Space Sciences, Kanagawa, Japan, (2)National Central University, Graduate Institute of Space Sciences, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Effects of Conductivity Asymmetry Between the Northern and Southern Latitudes on Toroidal and Poloidal Mode (169645)
Jae-Jin Jang, Jiwon Choi and Dong-Hun Lee, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Korea, Republic of (South)
Determining the Equatorial Dayside Plasma Density using Travel-time Magnetoseismology (164804)
Robert Ridgway and Brian J Jackel, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
The Eulerian solver of Vlasov-Ampère system for electrostatic plasma (140031)
Tsung-Che Tsai1, Hsiu-Shan Yu2 and Hung-Fu Lu1, (1)National Center for High-Performance Computing, NARL, Hsinchu, Taiwan, (2)University of California San Diego, Center for Astrophysics and Space Science, La Jolla, CA, United States
In-Situ Observations of Flux Ropes Formed by Spiral Null Pairs in Magnetotail Plasmas (171097)
Ruilong Guo1,2, Zuyin Pu2, Suiyan Fu2, Lun Xie2 and Yong Wei1, (1)Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China
Breaking The Ion Frozen-in Condition Via The Non-gyrotropic Pressure Effect In Magnetic Reconnection (127464)
Lei Dai, National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Chi Wang, NSSC, CAS, Beijing, China, Vassilis Angelopoulos, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Karl-Heinz Glassmeier, Institute of Geophysics and extraterrestrial Physics, Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Nongyrotropic electron orbits in collisionless magnetic reconnection (132804)
Seiji Zenitani, NAOJ National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo, Japan
Fast magnetic reconnection supported by sporadic small-scale Petschek- type shocks (133704)
Takuya Shibayama1, Kanya Kusano1, Takahiro Miyoshi2, Takashi Nakabou1 and Grigory Vekstein3, (1)Nagoya University, Institute for Space and Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya, Japan, (2)Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan, (3)University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
A nonlocal fluid closure for antiparallel reconnection (150402)
Jonathan Ng1, Ammar Hakim2 and Amitava Bhattacharjee2, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, United States, (2)Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
On the collisionless magnetic reconnection rate of order 0.1 (159282)
Yi-Hsin Liu, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Michael Hesse, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Fan Guo, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States, William S Daughton, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Hui Li, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, Paul Cassak, West Virginia University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Morgantown, United States and Michael A. Shay, University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States
Ion Dynamics in Anti-Parallel Magnetotail Reconnection in the Presence of Density Asymmetry (173709)
Heli Hietala, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, Anton Artemyev, Space Research Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia and Vassilis Angelopoulos, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Secondary Instability in 3-D Magnetic Reconnection (177460)
Xueyi Wang, Auburn University, Auburn, United States, Yu Lin, Auburn University, Physics Department, Auburn, United States and Liu Chen, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
First In Situ Evidence of Electron Pitch Angle Scattering Due to Magnetic Field Line Curvature in the Ion Diffusion Region (136997)
Yongcun Zhang1, Chao Shen2, Aurelie Marchaudon3, Zhaojin Rong4, Benoit Lavraud5, Andrew Neil Fazakerley6, Z Yao6, B Mihaljcic7 and Yong Ji8, (1)NSSC National Space Science Center, CAS, Beijing, China, (2)HIT Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, (3)IRAP, Toulouse, France, (4)Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (5)Laboratoire d'astrophysique de Bordeaux, Pessac, France, (6)University College London, London, United Kingdom, (7)Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Dorking, United Kingdom, (8)Peking University, Beijing, China

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