SM11D:
Plasma Energization During Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection II Posters

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Session ID#: 25997

Session Description:
Jet formation, plasma heating, and particle acceleration are important and common processes during magnetic reconnection in collisionless systems, which can range from Earth's magnetosphere to possibly the black-hole accretion disk at the center of the Milky Way. Recent instrumental and computational advances have enabled new frontiers of research regarding these energization processes. The session invites contributions that will expand our understanding of how and where electrons and ions are energized, and how dissipated magnetic energy is partitioned among various plasma species/components. Of immediate interest are the effects on energization due to the reconnection and in-plane electric fields, parallel electric field, wave fluctuations, etc., and how the guide field and upstream conditions influence the energization and energy partition. Studies integrating new results from magnetospheric/heliospheric missions and kinetic simulations/theories are particularly encouraged.
Primary Convener:  Li-Jen Chen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States; University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners:  James Frederick Drake, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Lorenzo Sironi, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States and Katherine Goodrich, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Chairs:  Katherine Goodrich, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Li-Jen Chen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Katherine Goodrich, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States

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

2723 Magnetic reconnection [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2724 Magnetopause and boundary layers [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
7845 Particle acceleration [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
7846 Plasma energization [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Kinetic Simulations of electron energization in global scale poloidal Alfven waves (259264)
Eun-Hwa Kim, Princeton University, Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, Peter A Damiano, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Jay Johnson, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, United States and Peter Porazik, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, Princeton, NJ, United States
The Trajectory Method and the Description of Charged Particles Dynamics in the Current Sheet Magnetic Field Geometry. (215308)
Yury Sasunov1, Gerald Schwarzbauer1, Maxim L. Khodachenko1, Igor I Alexeev2, Elena Semenovna Belenkaya3 and Vladimir M. Gubchenko4, (1)IWF Institute for Space Research, Graz, Austria, (2)Lomonosov Moscow State University, Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow, Russia, (3)Federal State Budget Educational Institution of Higher Education M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University, Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP MSU), 1(2), Leninskie gory, GSP-1, Moscow 119991, Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia, (4)Institute of Applied Physics RAS, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
MMS Multipoint Analysis of the Dynamics, Evolution, and Particle Acceleration Mechanisms Inside FTEs at Earth’s Subsolar Magnetopause (218317)
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, MI, United States, Jonathan P Eastwood, Imperial College London, Physics, London, United Kingdom, Paul Cassak, West Virginia University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Morgantown, United States, Daniel J Gershman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States and Cong Zhao, University of California Los Angeles, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Ion and Electron Energization in Guide Field Reconnection Outflows with Kinetic Riemann Simulations and Parallel Shock Simulations (244351)
Qile Zhang1, James Frederick Drake1 and Marc Swisdak2, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, College Park, MD, United States
Energy Dependence of Electron-Scale Currents and Dissipation During Magnetopause Reconnection (253683)
Jason R Shuster1,2, Daniel J Gershman1,2, Barbara L Giles2, John C Dorelli3, Levon A Avanov3, Li J Chen3, Shan Wang4, Naoki Bessho2, Roy B Torbert5, Charles J Farrugia6, Matthew R Argall7, Robert J Strangeway8 and Steven J Schwartz9, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (5)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (6)New hampshire university, Durham, NH, United States, (7)Univ of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (8)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (9)Earth and planetary and Space Sciences, Los angeles, United States
Electron Heating and Acceleration in a Reconnecting Magnetotail (256922)
Meng Zhou1, Mostafa El-Alaoui1, Giovanni Lapenta2, Jean Berchem1, Robert L Richard1, David Schriver1 and Raymond J Walker3, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
CCMC Modeling of Magnetic Reconnection in Electron Diffusion Region Events (258253)
Andrew Marshall, Rice University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Houston, TX, United States, Patricia H Reiff, Rice University, Physics and Astronomy, Houston, TX, United States, Antoun Daou, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, James Webster, Rice University, Physics, Houston, United States, Stanislav Y Sazykin, Rice University, Physics and Astronomy Department, Houston, TX, United States, Masha Kuznetsova, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Community Coordinated Modeling Center, Greenbelt, United States, Alex Grocer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geospace Physics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Lutz Rastaetter, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Community Coordinated Modeling Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Daniel T Welling, University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, Darren De Zeeuw, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States and Christopher T Russell, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States
Electron Acceleration in the Separatrix Region during Magnetic Reconnection (267788)
Feibin Fan1, Rongsheng Wang2, Quanming Lu3, Yuri V Khotyaintsev4, Martin Volwerk5, Rumi Nakamura6, Wolfgang Baumjohann7, Andrew Neil Fazakerley8, Can Huang9 and Mingyu Wu9, (1)University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (2)IGG Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)Collaborative Innovation Center of Astronautical Science and Technology, Hefei, China, (4)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (5)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, (6)Austrian Space Research Institute, Graz, Austria, (7)IWF Institute for Space Research, Graz, Austria, (8)Mullard Space Science Lab., Dorking, United Kingdom, (9)USTC University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
Particle Acceleration in Magnetic Reconnection from the Nonrelativistic to Relativistic Regime: The Dominant Acceleration Mechanism and Formation of Power-law Energy Distributions (282353)
Fan Guo1, Xiaocan Li1, Yi-Hsin Liu2, Hui Li3 and William S Daughton4, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Dartmouth College, Physics and Astronomy, Hanover, NH, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, United States, (4)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
An new MHD/kinetic model for exploring energetic particle production in macro-scale systems (282375)
James Frederick Drake, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Marc Swisdak, University of Maryland, College Park, United States and Joel Dahlin, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
MMS Observations of Langmuir Collapse and Emission? (284360)
Scott A Boardsen1, Haihong Che2, Victoria D Wilder3, James Webster4, Olivier Le Contel5, Daniel J Gershman6, Barbara L Giles6, Thomas Earle Moore7 and William R Paterson8, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 674, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Space Science, Huntsville, United States, (3)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/UPMC, Paris, France, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States

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