SM34A:
Physics of Magnetic Reconnection Beyond 2-D Laminar Models in Space and in the Laboratory I

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Session ID#: 32996

Session Description:
Huge progress has been seen in revealing the kinetic physics of magnetic reconnection on ion and electron scales in the past 2 years. The initial successes are mostly based on high-quality measurements by MMS and high-quality kinetic simulations of 2D laminar reconnection. However, crucial questions on electron-scale dissipation during reconnection are still unanswered, especially given the observed large, high-frequency parallel electric fields and associated electromagnetic waves at low-frequencies, both of which requires physics beyond 2D laminar reconnection. On the other hand, controlled laboratory experiments have been long studying these phenomena in close collaborations with 3D kinetic modeling. This session is to bring together researchers based on all three approaches to highlight new progress and to provide a focused platform for scientific exchanges to push our understanding beyond 2D laminar reconnection towards 3D turbulent reconnection. Ongoing and future opportunities to resolve these outstanding questions will be discussed.
Primary Convener:  Hantao Ji, Princeton University, Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States
Conveners:  William S Daughton, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Robert Ergun, Univ Colorado, Boulder, United States
Chairs:  William S Daughton, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, Hantao Ji, Princeton University, Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States and Robert Ergun, Univ Colorado, Boulder, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Robert Ergun, Univ Colorado, Boulder, United States

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

7829 Kinetic waves and instabilities [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
7835 Magnetic reconnection [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
7846 Plasma energization [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
7863 Turbulence [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Beyond 2D: Parallel Electric Fields and Dissipation in Guide Field Reconnectio (Invited) (257073)
Victoria D Wilder1, Robert Ergun2, Narges Ahmadi2, Dr. Katherine Goodrich3, Stefan Eriksson4, Erin Shimoda5, James L Burch6, Tai Phan7, Roy B Torbert6, Robert J Strangeway8, Barbara L Giles9, Per-Arne Lindqvist10 and Yuri V Khotyaintsev11, (1)University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States, (2)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (3)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (5)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (7)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (8)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (10)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (11)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
Diffusion Region’s Structure at the Subsolar Magnetopause with MMS Data (238864)
Giulia Cozzani1,2, Alessandro Retino3, Francesco Califano4, Alexandra Alexandrova5, Filomena Catapano6, Huishan Fu7, Olivier Le Contel8, Yuri V Khotyaintsev9, Andris Vaivads9, Narges Ahmadi10, Per-Arne Lindqvist11, Hugo Breuillard12, Laurent Mirioni13, James Webster14, Roy B Torbert15, Barbara L Giles16, Christopher T Russell17, Rumi Nakamura18, Thomas Earle Moore19, Stephen A Fuselier20, Barry Mauk21 and James L Burch15, (1)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, Saint-Maur Des Fossés Cedex, France, (2)University of Pisa, Department of Physics, Pisa, Italy, (3)CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, (4)University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, (5)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS/Sorbonne université/Univ. Paris Saclay/Obs. de Paris/Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France, (6)University of Calabria, Calabria, Italy, (7)Beihang University, Beijing, China, (8)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/UPMC, Paris, France, (9)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (10)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (11)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (12)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (UMR7648), CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/UPMC/Univ. Paris Sud/Obs. de Paris, Paris, France, (13)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (UMR7648), CNRS/Sorbonne Université/Univ. Paris Saclay/Obs. de Paris/Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Paris, France, (14)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (15)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (16)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (17)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (18)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (19)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (20)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (21)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Turbulence in Three Dimensional Simulations of Magnetopause Reconnection (Invited) (256729)
Lora Price, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Marc Swisdak, University of Maryland, College Park, United States, James Frederick Drake, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, James L Burch, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, Paul Cassak, West Virginia University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Morgantown, United States, Joel Dahlin, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Robert Ergun, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States
Interplay between electric fields generated by reconnection and by secondary processes (230202)
Giovanni Lapenta1, Maria Elena Innocenti2, Francesco Pucci3, Emanuele Cazzola4, Jean Berchem5, David L Newman6, Mostafa El-Alaoui7, Raymond J Walker8, Martin V Goldman6 and James Webster9, (1)KU Leuven, Mathematics, Leuven, Belgium, (2)KU Leuven, Dover, NH, United States, (3)Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, (4)KULeuven, Leuven, Belgium, (5)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (6)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)UCLA, Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, United States, (8)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (9)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
Electron Acceleration In a Turbulent Magnetic Island (266571)
Quanming Lu, University of Science and Technology of China, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Science, Hefei, China and Can Huang, USTC University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
Understanding the energetics of magnetic reconnection with the presence of waves in laboratory plasmas (254117)
Masaaki Yamada1, Jongsoo Yoo2, Hantao Ji2, Jonathan Jara-Almonte3, William Fox3 and Russell M Kulsrud4, (1)Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, (3)Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (4)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
Reconnection at Electron Scales and the Vineta-2 Experiment (269469)
Joerg Buechner1, Neeraj Jain1, Patricio Munoz1, Adrian von Stechow2, Olaf Grulke2 and Klinger Thomas2, (1)Max-Planck-Institute for Solar System Research, Goettingen, Germany, (2)Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald, Germany
Accessing the Asymmetric Collisionless Reconnection Regime in the Terrestrial Reconnection Experiment (TREX) (281960)
Samuel Greess, Jan Egedal, Joseph Olson, Alexander Millet-Ayala, Rachel Myers, John Wallace, Michael Clark and Cary Forest, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States

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