SM32B:
Multiscale Structure and Dynamics of Earth's Dayside Magnetopause:  Results from the First MMS Dayside Season V

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Session ID#: 17843

Session Description:
NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission completed its first dayside season on March 8, 2016.  With a spacecraft separation as small as 10 km, MMS now probes the sub ion-scale structure of Earth's dayside magnetopause, observing the plasma and fields at comparable temporal resolutions for the first time.  Comparison of these observations with simulations has provided many new insights into the structure of the magnetopause boundary layer, including:  the structure of the electron and ion diffusion regions in asymmetric reconnection, the ion-scale structure of reconnection exhausts, the role of secondary islands in the reconnection process, the nature of turbulent fluctuations in the magnetosheath and low latitude boundary layers, the kinetic structure of Flux Transfer Events (FTEs), and the large scale topology of the dayside magnetopause.  We solicit abstracts investigating these and related topics using observations, theory and modeling, and laboratory experiments, with emphasis on relevance to the interpretation of MMS data.
Primary Convener:  John Dorelli, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Conveners:  Steven M Petrinec, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Arlington, VA, United States, Paul Cassak, West Virginia University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Morgantown, United States and Benoit Lavraud, Laboratoire d'astrophysique de Bordeaux, Pessac, France
Chairs:  Paul Cassak, West Virginia University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Morgantown, United States and Steven M Petrinec, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Arlington, VA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  John Dorelli, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Index Terms:

2723 Magnetic reconnection [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2724 Magnetopause and boundary layers [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2728 Magnetosheath [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2784 Solar wind/magnetosphere interactions [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

MMS-Mission Diagnosis of Species-Dependent Leakage of Energetic Particles across Earth's Magnetopause and Implications for Juno at Jupiter (148380)
Barry Mauk1, Dennis K Haggerty2, Ian J Cohen1, Joe H Westlake1, Brian J Anderson3, James L Burch4, Stephen A Fuselier5, Scott J Bolton4, Christopher T Russell6, Robert J Strangeway7, John E P Connerney8 and Steven Levin9, (1)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins Univ, Laurel, MD, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (4)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (5)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (6)University of California, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (7)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (8)Space Research Corporation, Annapolis, United States, (9)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
MMS Observations of Energetic Particle Escape Dynamics at the Dayside Magnetopause (131159)
Ian J Cohen1, Barry Mauk1, Brian J Anderson2, Joe H Westlake1, David G Sibeck3, Joseph F. Fennell4, J Bernard Blake5, Drew L Turner6, Daniel N Baker7, Allison N Jaynes8, Harlan E Spence4, Roy B Torbert9 and James L Burch10, (1)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (3)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, (5)Aerospace Corporation Santa Monica, Santa Monica, CA, United States, (6)The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA, United States, (7)University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (8)University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, (9)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (10)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States
Remotely Sensing Magnetopause Dynamics Using Energetic Electrons: Exploring the Association of MMS/FEEPS Observations of "Microinjections" and Dynamical Magnetopause Processes (196260)
Harlan E Spence1, Shiva Kavosi2, Joseph F. Fennell1, Drew L Turner3, J Bernard Blake4, Ian J Cohen5, Barry Mauk5, Christopher T Russell6, Robert J Strangeway7, James L Burch8, Roy B Torbert9, Stephen A Fuselier10 and Barbara L Giles11, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (3)The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA, United States, (4)Aerospace Corporation Santa Monica, Santa Monica, CA, United States, (5)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (6)University of California, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (7)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (8)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (9)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Physics Department, Durham, NH, United States, (10)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (11)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Examination of Energetic Electron Acceleration in the Vicinity of Earth’s Dayside Magnetopause with MMS (159991)
Trevor W Leonard1, Allison N Jaynes2, Daniel N Baker3, Hong Zhao4, J Bernard Blake5, James L Burch6, Ian J Cohen7, Robert Ergun4, Joseph F. Fennell8, Daniel Gershman9, Barbara L Giles10, Olivier LeContel11, Barry Mauk7, Christopher T Russell12, Robert J Strangeway13, Roy B Torbert14, Drew L Turner15 and Victoria D Wilder16, (1)University of Colorado Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, (2)University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, (3)University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (4)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Aerospace Corporation Arlington, Arlington, VA, United States, (6)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (7)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (8)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (11)Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau Cedex, France, (12)University of California, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (13)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (14)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Physics Department, Durham, NH, United States, (15)The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA, United States, (16)University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States
MMS observations of large guide field symmetric reconnection between colliding reconnection jets at the center of a magnetic flux rope at the magnetopause (151787)
Marit Oieroset1, Tai Phan2, Colby C Haggerty3, Michael A. Shay4, Jonathan P Eastwood5, Daniel J Gershman6, James Frederick Drake7, Masaki Fujimoto8, James Webster9, Forrest Mozer10, Mitsuo Oka2, Roy B Torbert11, James L Burch12, Shan Wang7, Li-Jen Chen13, Marc Swisdak14, Craig J Pollock13, John Dorelli15, Stephen A Fuselier16, Benoit Lavraud17, Barbara L Giles15, Thomas Earle Moore18, Yoshifumi Saito19, Levon A Avanov13, William R Paterson13, Robert J Strangeway20, Christopher T Russell21, Yuri V Khotyaintsev22, Per-Arne Lindqvist23 and Kittipat Malakit24, (1)University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (4)University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States, (5)Imperial College London, Physics, London, United Kingdom, (6)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (7)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (8)ISAS/JAXA, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan, (9)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (11)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (12)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (13)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (14)University of Maryland College Park, Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, College Park, MD, United States, (15)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (16)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (17)Laboratoire d'astrophysique de Bordeaux, Pessac, France, (18)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, United States, (19)ISAS Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Kanagawa, Japan, (20)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (21)University of California, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (22)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (23)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (24)Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
MMS Observations and Non-Force Free Modeling of a Flux Transfer Event Immersed in a Super-Alfvenic Flow (138462)
Charles J Farrugia1, Benoit Lavraud2, Roy B Torbert3, Matthew R Argall4, Issaad Kacem5, Wenyuan Yu1, Love Alm3, James L Burch6, Christopher T Russell7, Robert J Strangeway8, Jason R Shuster9, John Dorelli10, Jonathan P Eastwood11, James Webster12, Stephen A Fuselier13, Daniel J Gershman14, Barbara L Giles10, Yuri V Khotyaintsev15, Per-Arne Lindqvist16, Hiroshi Matsui1, Goran Tage Marklund17, Tai Phan18, Kristoff W Paulson3 and Craig J Pollock19, (1)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (2)Laboratoire d'astrophysique de Bordeaux, Pessac, France, (3)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department for Physics and Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, Durham, NH, United States, (5)IRAP, Toulouse, France, (6)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (7)University of California, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (8)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (9)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, (10)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (11)Imperial College London, Physics, London, United Kingdom, (12)University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (13)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (14)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (15)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (16)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (17)Royal Inst Technology, KTH/EES, Stockholm, Sweden, (18)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (19)Denali Scientific, NA, Healy, United States
Flux Transfer Events on the Magnetopause, Force-Free or Not: An MMS Multi-Instrument Study (192370)
Cong Zhao1, Christopher T Russell2, Robert J Strangeway3, William R Paterson4, Steven M Petrinec5, Meng Zhou6, Brian J Anderson7, Wolfgang Baumjohann8, Kenneth R Bromund4, Mark Chutter9, Guan Le4, David Fischer10, Rumi Nakamura11, Ferdinand Plaschke12, James A Slavin13 and Roy B Torbert14, (1)University of California Los Angeles, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of California, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Lockheed Martin Corporation, Arlington, VA, United States, (6)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (7)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (8)Space Research Institute (IWF)/Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (9)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (10)Space Research Institute, Graz-St Peter, Austria, (11)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (12)IWF Institute for Space Research, Graz, Austria, (13)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (14)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Physics Department, Durham, NH, United States
Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission Examination of Stress Balance in FTE-Type Flux Ropes at the Earth’s Magnetopause (150774)
Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, James A Slavin, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Guan Le, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Jonathan P Eastwood, Imperial College London, Physics, London, United Kingdom, Robert J Strangeway, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, Christopher T Russell, University of California, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Rumi Nakamura, Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, Wolfgang Baumjohann, Space Research Institute (IWF)/Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, Roy B Torbert, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, Barbara L Giles, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Daniel J Gershman, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and James L Burch, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States

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