SH31C:
Statistical Mechanics and Distributions in Space Plasmas Posters

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Session ID#: 24338

Session Description:
Space plasmas are collisionless particle systems with correlations and cannot be described by elements of the standard Boltzmann-Gibbs statistical mechanics. Instead, the generalized framework of non-extensive statistical mechanics is used, with tremendous implications and applications in space plasmas. We welcome abstracts reporting on the progress of the following three broad subject areas: (1) Theoretical foundations: non-extensive statistical mechanics; kappa distributions; connection with thermodynamics; entropy and information measure; concept of temperature; and distributions with potential energy or anisotropies. (2) Effects on Plasma Processes, Dynamics, and Complexity: particle acceleration; transport and diffusion; plasma linear/nonlinear waves and instabilities; shocks and Rankine–Hugoniot conditions; polytropic relations; plasma interactions; particle correlations; coupling phenomena; turbulence and chaos;and mechanisms generating kappa distributions. (3) Data Analyses, Simulations, and Applications: solar / stellar atmospheres; flares / CMEs; solar wind; ionosphere; terrestrial, planetary, and cometary magnetospheres; heliosheath, interstellar plasmas, and beyond.
Primary Convener:  George Livadiotis, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
Conveners:  Peter H Yoon, University of Maryland College Park, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, College Park, United States and Kostas Dialynas, Academy of Athens, Center for Space Research and Technology, Athens, Greece
Chairs:  George Livadiotis, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, Kostas Dialynas, Academy of Athens, Center for Space Research and Technology, Athens, Greece and Peter H Yoon, Kyung Hee University, Yongin-Si, South Korea
OSPA Liaison:  Kostas Dialynas, Academy of Athens, Center for Space Research and Technology, Athens, Greece
Co-Organized with:
SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics, and SPA-Magnetospheric Physics

Cross-Listed:
  • NG - Nonlinear Geophysics
  • SA - SPA-Aeronomy
  • SM - SPA-Magnetospheric Physics
Index Terms:

7827 Kinetic and MHD theory [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
7845 Particle acceleration [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
7857 Stochastic phenomena [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
7899 General or miscellaneous [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The concept of temperature in space plasmas (234582)
George Livadiotis, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
On the equilibrium between proton kappa distribution and compressible kinetic Alfvenic fluctuations (248939)
Peter H Yoon, University of Maryland College Park, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, College Park, United States
Kappa distributions in Saturn’s magnetosphere: energetic ion moments using Cassini/MIMI measurements (214991)
Kostas Dialynas1, Elias Roussos2, Leonardo Regoli3, Chris Paranicas4, Stamatios Mike Krimigis5, Mark Kane6, Donald G Mitchell4 and Douglas C Hamilton7, (1)Academy of Athens, Center for Space Research and Technology, Athens, Greece, (2)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany, (3)JHU Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, United States, (4)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (5)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States, (6)Harford Research Institute, Bel Air, MD, United States, (7)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Non-Maxwellian Velocity Distribution Functions of Coulombic Systems: Quasi-Analytical Results (274492)
Brent M Randol, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Extensive entropy and heavy-tailed distributions with applications in statistical and stochastic modelling of hydroclimatic processes (271623)
Federico Lombardo, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy and Simon Michael Papalexiou, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
Non-Extensive Statistical Analysis of Solar Wind Electric, Magnetic Fields and Solar Energetic Particle time series. (280360)
George P Pavlos1, Olga Malandraki2, Olga Khabarova3, George Livadiotis4, Evgenios G. Pavlos2, Leonidas P Karakatsanis5, Aggelos C Iliopoulos1 and Konstantinos Parisis1, (1)Democritus University of Thrace, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Xanthi, Greece, (2)National Observatory of Athens, IAASARS, Athens, Greece, (3)IZMIRAN RAS, Moscow, Russia, (4)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (5)Democritus University of Thrace, Department of Environmental Engineering, Xanthi, Greece
Estimations of Kappa parameter using quasi-thermal noise spectroscopy: Applications on Wind spacecraft (238937)
Mihailo Martinović, Paris Observatory Meudon, Meudon, France; University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mathematics, Belgrade, Serbia
Determining the kappa index of space plasma distributions from observations in a limited energy range (262893)
Georgios Nicolaou, IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Kiruna, Kiruna, Sweden and George Livadiotis, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
Tsallis non-additive entropy and natural time analysis of seismicity (230865)
Nicholas V Sarlis1, Efthimios S Skordas1 and Panayiotis Varotsos2, (1)National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Physics, Athens, Greece, (2)National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Solid Earth Physics Institute, Athens, Greece
Kinetic Theory of quasi-electrostatic waves in non-gyrotropic plasmas (212832)
Stefaan Poedts, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Kashif Arshad, KU Leuven, mathematics, Leuven, Belgium; Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan and Marian Lazar, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Drift kinetic Alfven waves in non-extensively distributed plasma (301309)
Ummaima Nermeen1, Imran Ali Khan1, Muhammad Fraz Bashir2,3, Raluca Ilie4 and Ghulam Murtaza5, (1)Government College University Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan, (2)COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Lahore, Department of Physics, Lahore, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Science, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, United States, (5)Senior Visiting Faculty Government College University Lahore, Department of Physics, Lahore, Pakistan
Marginal instability threshold of magnetosonic waves in kappa distributed plasma (301229)
Muhammad Zeewaqar Manzoor1, Muhammad Fraz Bashir2,3, Raluca Ilie4, Peter H Yoon5,6 and M. Sheraz Miasli1, (1)COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Lahore, Department of Physics, Lahore, Pakistan, (2)COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Lahore, Department of Physics, Lahore, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Science, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, United States, (5)Kyung Hee University, Yongin-Si, South Korea, (6)University of Maryland College Park, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, College Park, United States

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