SM11F:
Multiscale Investigations of Fundamental Plasma Processes by in Situ Observations and Simulations I

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Session ID#: 32967

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:

Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission Observations of Magnetic Flux Ropes in the Earth’s Plasma Sheet (241649)
James A Slavin1, Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti2, Gangkai Poh2, Guan Le3, Christopher T Russell4, Rumi Nakamura5, Wolfgang Baumjohann6, Roy B Torbert7, Daniel J Gershman3, Craig J Pollock8, Barbara L Giles9, Thomas E Moore3 and James L Burch7, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)UCLA, Earth Planets and Space, Los Angeles, United States, (5)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (6)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Space Research Institute, Graz, Austria, (7)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (8)Denali Scientific, San Antonio, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Magnetospheric Multiscale observations of Flux Transfer Event signatures (Invited) (214174)
Benoit Lavraud1, Issaad Kacem2, Charles J Farrugia3, Marit Oieroset4, Meng Zhou, PhD5, Jonathan P Eastwood6, Jeremy Dargent2, John C Dorelli7, James L Burch8, Barbara L Giles9, Stephen A Fuselier10, Daniel J Gershman9, Victoria N Coffey11, James Webster12, Levon A Avanov7, Craig J Pollock13, Li-Jen Chen7, Michael O Chandler14, Vincent N Genot2, Stefan Eriksson15, Daniel Graham16, Elena E. Grigorenko17, Hiroshi Hasegawa18, Christian Jacquey2, Yuri V Khotyaintsev16, Aurelie Marchaudon2, Thomas Earle Moore19, Rumi Nakamura20, William R Paterson21, Amy Catherine Rager22, Christopher T Russell23, Tai Phan24, Yoshifumi Saito25, Jean-Andre Sauvaud2, Suzanne Elizabeth Smith26, Conrad Schiff7, Robert J Strangeway27, Sergio Toledo Redondo28, Yoann Vernisse2, Shan Wang29 and Shoichiro Yokota30, (1)Laboratoire d'astrophysique de Bordeaux, Pessac, France, (2)IRAP, Toulouse, France, (3)New hampshire university, Durham, NH, United States, (4)Univ California, Berkeley, United States, (5)University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States, (6)Imperial College London, Physics, London, United Kingdom, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (10)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (11)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (12)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (13)Denali Scientific, Healy, AK, United States, (14)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, United States, (15)University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (16)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (17)Space Research Institute of RAS, Moscow, Russia, (18)Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, JAXA, Sagamihara, Japan, (19)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (20)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (21)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geospace Physics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (22)Catholic University of America, Physics, Washington, United States, (23)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (24)UC Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (25)ISAS Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Kanagawa, Japan, (26)Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, (27)Univ California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (28)European Space Astronomy Centre, Madrid, Spain, (29)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (30)ISAS/JAXA, Sagamihara, Japan
Multi-scale observations of whistler, hiss and other magnetospheric plasma waves during a series of conjunctions between ARASE (ERG) and Van Allen Probes. (241658)
Chris A Colpitts1, Yoshizumi Miyoshi2, Craig Kletzing3, George B Hospodarsky4, Yoshiya Kasahara5, John R Wygant6, Cynthia A Cattell6, Mitsuru Hikishima7, Shoya Matsuda5, Masahiro Kitahara2 and Yuto Katoh8, (1)University of Minnesota, School of Physics and Astronomy, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (2)Nagoya University, Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya, Japan, (3)University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, United States, (4)University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, (5)Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan, (6)University of Minnesota, School of Physics and Astronomy, Minneapolis, United States, (7)ISAS/JAXA, Sagamihara, Japan, (8)Tohoku University, Department of Geophysics, Graduate School of Science, Sendai, Japan
PIC Simulation of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability at the Dayside Magnetosphere (286691)
Eunjin Choi1, Kyoung-Joo Hwang2 and David G Sibeck1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Goddard Planetary Heliophysics Institute - GPHI, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States
Electrostatic Turbulence and Anomalous Effects in Reconnection Diffusion Region (Invited) (223328)
Yuri V Khotyaintsev1, Daniel Bruce Graham1, Cecilia Norgren1, Andris Vaivads2, Wenya Li1, Andrey V Divin1, Mats Andre1, Stefano Markidis3, Per-Arne Lindqvist3, Ivy Bo Peng3, Matthew R Argall4, James Webster5, Olivier Le Contel6, Werner Magnes7, Christopher T Russell8, Barbara L Giles9, Roy B Torbert10 and James L Burch10, (1)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (2)Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Space and Plasma Physics, Stockholm, Sweden, (3)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (4)Univ of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (5)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/UPMC, Paris, France, (7)Space Research Institute (IWF)/Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (8)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (10)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States
In Situ Observations of a Magnetosheath High-Speed Jet Triggering Magnetopause Reconnection (257843)
Heli Hietala, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, Tai Phan, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, Vassilis Angelopoulos, UCLA, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Marit Oieroset, Univ California, Berkeley, United States, Martin Owain Archer, Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, Tomas Karlsson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden and Ferdinand Plaschke, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria
Magnetospheric Multiscale Observations of Turbulent Magnetic and Electron Velocity Fluctuations in Earth’s Magnetosheath: Kappa Distribution Characterization (292856)
Craig J Pollock, Denali Scientific, San Antonio, TX, United States, James L Burch, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, Alexandros Chasapis, Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, Saint-Maur Des Fossés Cedex, France, Barbara L Giles, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, David A Mackler, Catholic University of America, Physics, Washington, DC, United States, Prof. William H Matthaeus, Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States and Christopher T Russell, University of California, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Self-organizing Large-scale Structures in Earth's Foreshock Waves (278410)
Urs Ganse1, Yann Pfau-Kempf1, Lucile Turc1, Sanni Hoilijoki1, Sebastian von Alfthan2, Rami O Vainio3 and Minna Palmroth1,4, (1)University of Helsinki, Department of Physics, Helsinki, Finland, (2)CSC - IT Center for Research, Espoo, Finland, (3)University of Turku, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Turku, Finland, (4)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Space and Earth Observation Centre, Helsinki, Finland

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