SM13D:
Multiscale Investigations of Fundamental Plasma Processes by in Situ Observations and Simulations II Posters

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Session ID#: 23591

Session Description:
The Cluster mission has emphasized multi-scale processes occurring throughout the Earth’s magnetosphere since 2000. The MMS mission, launched in 2015, has revealed, in particular, the electron-scale processes with unprecedented time-resolution measurements. The Cluster and MMS, constituting two tetrahedral configurations with varying inter-spacecraft separations and different orbital inclinations, have provided us with an opportunity to capture a micro-to-macroscopic picture of fundamental plasma processes. These multi-scale phenomena occurring in the near-Earth space include velocity-shear-driven vortex and wave, turbulence, and magnetic reconnection. In-situ observations from MMS and/or Cluster enable quantitative testing of micro and meso-scale physics predicted by theory/simulations. This session addresses details of our current knowledge on multi-scale physical processes using MMS and/or Cluster data, modeling, or both. Studies including conjunctions between these and other missions, such as THEMIS, Van Allen Probes, Arase (ERG) and Geotail are also encouraged.
Primary Convener:  Kyoung-Joo Hwang, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States; Goddard Planetary Heliophysics Institute - GPHI, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States
Conveners:  C Philippe Escoubet, European Space Research and Technology Centre, Noordwijk Zh, Netherlands, Sergio Toledo Redondo, European Space Astronomy Centre, Madrid, Spain and Tai Phan, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Chairs:  Sergio Toledo Redondo, European Space Astronomy Centre, Madrid, Spain, Kyoung-Joo Hwang, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Tai Phan, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Kyoung-Joo Hwang, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States

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

2723 Magnetic reconnection [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2724 Magnetopause and boundary layers [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2744 Magnetotail [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2784 Solar wind/magnetosphere interactions [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Cluster observations of the field-aligned currents in the high-altitude auroral region (299135)
Youra SHIN1, Hee-Eun Kim2, Ensang Lee2 and Jaejin Lee3, (1)Space science research, Kyung Hee University, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, (2)Dept. of Astronomy and Space Science, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Gyeonggi, South Korea, (3)KASI, Daejeon, South Korea
Properties, propagation, and excitation of EMIC waves observed by MMS: A case study (267131)
Jichun Zhang1, Scott A Boardsen2, Victoria N Coffey3, Michael O Chandler4, Anthony Saikin5, Emily M. Mello6, Christopher T Russell7, Roy B Torbert8, Stephen A Fuselier9, Barbara L Giles10 and Daniel J Gershman10, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, (2)Goddard Planetary Heliophysics Institute, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, United States, (5)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (6)University of New Hampshire, Space Science Center and Department of Physics, Durham, NH, United States, (7)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (8)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (9)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (10)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Spatial Variations of Poloidal and Toroidal Mode Field Line Resonances Observed by MMS (262085)
Guan Le, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Peter J Chi, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth Planetary and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, California, United States, Robert J Strangeway, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, Christopher T Russell, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, James A Slavin, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Brian J Anderson, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, Larry Kepko, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, Rumi Nakamura, Austrian Space Research Institute, Graz, Austria, Ferdinand Plaschke, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria and Roy B Torbert, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States
The Effect of Ion Multi-scales on Magnetic Reconnection in Earth’s Magnetotail - Cluster Observations” (276283)
Akhtar S Ardakani1, Christopher Mouikis2, Lynn M Kistler1, Roy B Torbert1,3, Vadim Roytershteyn4 and Yuri Omelchenko4, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (4)Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, United States
Multi-scale observations of magnetic reconnection: Cluster and MMS measurements of the reconnecting magnetopause at the subsolar region and dusk sector (228548)
Sergio Toledo Redondo1, C Philippe Escoubet2, Benoit Lavraud3, Mats Andre4, John Coxon5, Robert C Fear6, Nicolas Aunai7, Kyoung-Joo Hwang8, Wenya Li4, Stephen A Fuselier9, Barbara L Giles10, Christopher T Russell11 and James L Burch12, (1)European Space Agency, Villanueva De La Can, Spain, (2)ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands, (3)Laboratoire d'astrophysique de Bordeaux, Pessac, France, (4)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (5)University of Southampton, Physics and Astronomy, Southampton, United Kingdom, (6)University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, (7)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS, Paris, France, (8)Goddard Planetary Heliophysics Institute - GPHI, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (9)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (10)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (11)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (12)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States
Revisiting a magnetopause Kelvin-Helmholtz event seen by the MMS spacecraft on 8 September 2015: Large-scale context and wave properties (248159)
Hiroshi Hasegawa, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Sagamihara, Japan, Takuma Nakamura, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Plasma Theory and App, Los Alamos, United States, Naritoshi Kitamura, ISAS Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Kanagawa, Japan, Yasuto Hoshi, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, Yoshifumi Saito, ISAS Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Kanagawa, Japan, Adolfo Figueroa-Vinas, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Barbara L Giles, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Benoit Lavraud, Laboratoire d'astrophysique de Bordeaux, Pessac, France, Yuri V Khotyaintsev, IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden and Robert Ergun, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States
PIC simulation study of microinstability from the electron beam and the crescent distribution near the electron diffusion region (287662)
Kyunghwan Dokgo1,2, Kyoung-Joo Hwang1,3, Eunjin Choi1,3 and David G Sibeck1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, (3)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States
Large Amplitude Electrostatic Waves and Anomalous Resistivity Near the Electron Diffusion Region (284349)
James Webster1, James L Burch2, Patricia H Reiff3, Kevin Genestreti4, John C Dorelli5, Amy Catherine Rager6, Antoun Daou7, Stanislav Y Sazykin8, Andrew Marshall9, Daniel Bruce Graham10, Li J Chen5 and Shan Wang11, (1)Rice University, Houston, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (3)Rice University, Physics and Astronomy, Houston, TX, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)Catholic University of America, Physics, Washington, United States, (7)Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, (8)Rice University, Physics and Astronomy Department, Houston, TX, United States, (9)Rice University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Houston, TX, United States, (10)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (11)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Small-Scale Dayside Magnetic Reconnection Analysis via MMS (221327)
Kristina Renee Pritchard1, James L Burch2, Stephen A Fuselier3, James Webster4, Kevin Genestreti5, Roy B Torbert2, Amy Catherine Rager6, Tai Phan7, Matthew R Argall8, Olivier Le Contel9, Christopher T Russell10, Robert J Strangeway11 and Barbara L Giles12, (1)University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (4)Rice University, Houston, United States, (5)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, United States, (6)Catholic University of America, Physics, Washington, United States, (7)UC Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (8)Univ of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (9)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/UPMC, Paris, France, (10)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (11)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (12)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Determining the Thickness and the Sub-Structure Details of the Magnetopause from MMS Data (223646)
Roberto Manuzzo1, Gérard Belmont1 and Laurence Rezeau2, (1)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (UMR7648) CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/UPMC/Univ. Paris Sud/Obs. de Paris Paris (France, Paris, France, (2)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (UMR7648) CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/Sorbonne Université/Univ. Paris Sud/Obs. de Paris, Paris, France
Observations of kinetic scale magnetic holes in terrestrial space (241193)
Yao Shutao1, Quanqi Shi1, Xiaogang Wang2, Qiugang Zong3, Anmin Tian4, Zhonghua Yao5, Maria Hamrin6, Timo Pitkänen7, Zuyin Pu3, Chijie Xiao2, Suiyan Fu3, Hui Zhang8, Barbara L Giles9, Christopher T Russell10, Ruilong Guo11, Weijie Sun12, Wenya Li13, Xuzhi Zhou14 and Alexandre De Spiegeleer7, (1)Shandong University at Weihai, Weihai, China, (2)Peking University, Beijing, China, (3)Peking University, Institute of Space Physics and Applied Technology, Beijing, China, (4)Shandong University at Weihai, Institute of Space Science, Weihai, China, (5)Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (6)Umea Univ, Umea, Sweden, (7)Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, (8)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Physics Department & Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (10)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (11)Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (12)IGG Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (13)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (14)Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China
Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Observation of Plasma Velocity-Space Cascade Processes (245225)
Tulasi N Parashar1, Sergio Servidio2, Prof. William H Matthaeus3, Alexandros Chasapis1, Denise Perrone4, Francesco Valentini5, Pierluigi Veltri2, Daniel J Gershman6, Steven J Schwartz7, Barbara L Giles8, Stephen A Fuselier9, Tai Phan10 and James L Burch11, (1)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (2)Universita' della Calabria, Rende, Italy, (3)Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (4)European Space Agency, ESAC, Villanueva De La Cañada, Spain, (5)University della Calabria, Rende, Italy, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)Earth and planetary and Space Sciences, Los angeles, United States, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (9)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (10)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (11)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States
Polytropic index of ions in the Earth magnetosheath (222586)
Xuexia Pang1,2, Jinbin Cao3 and Zechao Deng2, (1)No. 180 of Wusi East Road in Baoding, College of Physics Science and Technology, Hebei University, Baoding, China, (2)Hebei University, College of Physics Science and Technology, Baoding, China, (3)Beihang University, Beijing, China
Statistical Study between Solar Wind, Magnetosheath and Plasma Sheet Fluctuation Properties and Correlation with Magnetotail Bursty Bulk Flows (254594)
Christina S Chu, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States; Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Physical Sciences - Center for Space and Atmospherc Research, Daytona Beach, FL, United States, Katariina Nykyri, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geospace Laboratory, 673, Greenbelt, United States and Andrew P Dimmock, IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
Multi-Spacecraft Study of Kinetic scale Turbulence Using MMS Observations in the Solar Wind (295736)
Alexandros Chasapis1, Prof. William H Matthaeus2, Tulasi Parashar3, Stephen A Fuselier4, Bennett Maruca5, James L Burch6, Thomas Earle Moore7, Tai Phan8, Craig J Pollock9, Daniel J Gershman10, Roy B Torbert6, Christopher T Russell11 and Robert J Strangeway12, (1)University of Delaware, Physics and Astronomy, Newark, United States, (2)Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (3)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (4)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (5)Center for Astrophysics, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)UC Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (9)Denali Scientific, NA, Healy, United States, (10)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (11)University of California, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (12)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States

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