SH34A:
Statistical Mechanics and Distributions in Space Plasmas

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Session ID#: 31385

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 and Kostas Dialynas, Academy of Athens, Center for Space Research and Technology, Athens, Greece
OSPA Liaison:  Kostas Dialynas, Academy of Athens, Center for Space Research and Technology, Athens, Greece

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:

Kappa-Electrons Downstream of the Solar Wind Termination Shock (Invited) (210730)
Hans Joerg Fahr, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Quantifying variability in fast and slow solar wind: From turbulence to extremes (231265)
Elizabeth Tindale, University of Warwick, Centre for Fusion, Space and Astrophysics, Department of Physics, Coventry, United Kingdom, Sandra C Chapman, University of Warwick, Centre for Fusion, Space and Astrophysics, Department of Physics, Coventry, CV4, United Kingdom, Nicholas Moloney, London Mathematical Laboratory, London, United Kingdom and Nicholas Wynn Watkins, London School of Economics, CATS, London, United Kingdom
Charging of Interstellar Dust Grains in the out-of-equilibrium Heliosheath Plasma traced by IBEX ENAs (263221)
Priscilla C Frisch, University of Chicago, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Chicago, IL, United States, Keiichi Ogasawara, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, George Livadiotis, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, Jonathan D Slavin, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysics Division, Cambridge, MA, United States, David J McComas, Princeton University, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, Herbert O Funsten, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Nathan Schwadron, Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States and Jacob Heerikhuisen, Department of Space Science, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Whistler Waves With Electron Temperature Anisotropy And Non-Maxwellian Distribution Functions (279082)
Waqas Masood, COMSATS Institute of Information Techonolgy, Islamabad, Pakistan
Electron and ion Bernstein waves in Saturnian Magnetosphere (297937)
Abdul Waheed1, Muhammad Fraz Bashir2,3, Raluca Ilie4, Iqra Naeem5, Uzma Maqsood5 and Peter H Yoon6,7, (1)University of Science and Technology of China, Earth and Space Sciences, Hefei, China, (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)COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Lahore, Department of Physics, Lahore, Pakistan, (6)Kyung Hee Univ., Yongin, South Korea, (7)University of Maryland College Park, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, College Park, United States
Ion and electron Kappa distribution functions in the plasma sheet. (255607)
Marina V Stepanova1, Cristobal Espinoza1, Pablo S Moya2, Elizabeth E Antonova3 and Juan Alejandro Valdivia4, (1)University of Santiago Chile, Santiago, Chile, (2)University of Chile, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Ñuñoa, Chile, (3)Lomonosov Moscow State University, Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP MSU), Moscow, Russia, (4)University of Chile, Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, Santiago, Chile

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