SM31B:
Interactive Visualizations of Magnetic Reconnection: Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Observations and Simulations eLightning


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Session ID#: 49832

Session Description:
This session presents a novel opportunity to visualize and interact with results from NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission to elucidate the microphysics of magnetic reconnection in the natural laboratory of Earth's magnetosphere. The unprecedented spatiotemporal resolution of the four-spacecraft constellation motivates exploration of new visualization techniques for space data. MMS observations of dayside magnetopause and nightside magnetotail reconnection can be presented in concert with state-of-the-art simulation predictions. Creative presentations of multispacecraft analysis and reconnection concepts are encouraged to best communicate the discoveries of this revolutionary mission. Examples of engaging, interactive formats could include animations of four-spacecraft time series data, movies of global or kinetic reconnection simulations to compare with MMS measurements, and three dimensional visualizations of fields and plasma distribution functions. All abstracts to this session are planned to utilize AGU's eLightning format with interactive touch screen posters. Depending on availability, this session may also incorporate traditional posters.

https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2018/files/2018/04/eLightning-description-2018.pdf

Primary Convener:  Jason R Shuster, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Conveners:  Cecilia Norgren, IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden; University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway and Victoria D Wilder, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jason R Shuster, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Chairs:  Cecilia Norgren, IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden and Victoria D Wilder, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Jason R Shuster, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, United States
Index Terms:

2723 Magnetic reconnection [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2724 Magnetopause and boundary layers [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2744 Magnetotail [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
7835 Magnetic reconnection [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Role of electron trapping during reconnection in laboratory and space plasmas (Invited) (380184)
Jan Egedal, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
Dayside Reconnection Magnetic Field Topologies and Current Structures at the Electron Diffusion Region with Magnetospheric Multiscale (Invited) (399827)
James Webster, Rice University, Houston, United States, James L Burch, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, Patricia H Reiff, Rice University, Physics and Astronomy, Houston, TX, United States, Kevin James Genestreti, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, Stanislav Y Sazykin, Rice University, Physics and Astronomy Department, Houston, TX, United States and Andrew Marshall, Rice University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Houston, TX, United States
MMS Observations and CCMC Modeling of Field Line Stretching at Separator Lines (442221)
Patricia H Reiff, Rice University, Physics and Astronomy, Houston, TX, United States, James M Webster, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, Andrew Marshall, Rice University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Houston, TX, United States, Stanislav Y Sazykin, Rice University, Physics and Astronomy Department, Houston, TX, United States, Christopher T Russell, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States and Lutz Rastaetter, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Community Coordinated Modeling Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Mechanisms of Ion Jet Formation in Magnetic Reconnection (462047)
Barbara L Giles, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Li J Chen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Shan Wang, Peking University, Institute of Space Physics and Applied Technology, Beijing, China, James L Burch, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States and Roy B Torbert, University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States
Statistical Comparison of the Dayside Current Density using Particle and Field Data from the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (434063)
Amy Catherine Rager1, John C Dorelli2, Vadim Uritsky3, Daniel J Gershman4, Daniel da Silva2, Barbara L Giles4, William R Paterson5, Levon A Avanov2, Benoit Lavraud6, Conrad Schiff2, Roy B Torbert7, James L Burch8 and James Webster9, (1)Catholic University of America, Physics, Washington, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA GSFC / CUA, Greenbelt, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geospace Physics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)LAB, Toulouse, France, (7)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (8)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (9)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
Studying the Global Effects of Ion-Scale Physics in Supersonic, Earth-like Magnetospheres with GPUs (465853)
Christopher Bard, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States and John C Dorelli, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Estimating Current Density with MMS Data in Near-Earth Space (452839)
Jennifer Fanelle1, Michael A. Shay2, Prof. William H Matthaeus2, Alexandros Chasapis3, Riddhi Bandyopadhyay4, James L Burch5, Thomas E Moore6, Craig J Pollock7, Barbara L Giles7, Daniel J Gershman7, Roy B Torbert8, Christopher T Russell9 and Robert J Strangeway10, (1)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (2)University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States, (3)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Princeton University, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, (5)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (8)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (9)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (10)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
Reconnection Diffusion Regions Identified Using Magnetospheric Multiscale’s Automated Burst Selection System (436511)
William R Paterson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geospace Physics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Robert Ergun, Univ Colorado, Boulder, United States, Victoria D Wilder, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States, Daniel da Silva, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Barbara L Giles, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, James L Burch, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, Roy B Torbert, University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, Stephen A Fuselier, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, Barry Mauk, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, Thomas Earle Moore, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, United States and Christopher T Russell, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States
Resolving Terms of Vlasov's Equation with MMS (369331)
Jason R Shuster1, Daniel J Gershman2, John C Dorelli3, Shan Wang4, Naoki Bessho5, Li J Chen3, Daniel da Silva3, Barbara L Giles2 and William R Paterson6, (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)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geospace Physics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Electron Energization and Parallel Crescents Near the Electron Diffusion Region during Asymmetric Reconnection (449413)
Andrew Marshall, Rice University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Houston, TX, United States, James L Burch, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, Patricia H Reiff, Rice University, Physics and Astronomy, Houston, TX, United States and James M Webster, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
Global 3D geometry of quasi-separatrix layers generated by ballooning instability in near-Earth magnetotail (384729)
Zechen Wang1, Ping Zhu1,2, Jun Chen1 and Rui Liu1, (1)University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (2)Univ Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States
Ion and electron heating and their energy partition during magnetic reconnection in the Earth’s magnetotail (404142)
Masahiro Hoshino, University of Tokyo, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, Kunihiro Keika, University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Science, Bunkyo-ku, Japan and Kaori Watanabe, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Recent Advances of Magnetic Reconnection Based on the FOTE Method (382939)
Huishan Fu, Beihang University, School of Space and Environment, Beijing, China and SPART team
Determination of the MMS path across the magnetopause viamagnetic field only (404703)
Laurence Rezeau, Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (UMR7648) CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/Sorbonne Université/Univ. Paris Sud/Obs. de Paris, Paris, France, Roberto Manuzzo, Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (UMR7648) CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/UPMC/Univ. Paris Sud/Obs. de Paris Paris (France, Paris, France, Richard Eugene Denton, Dartmouth College, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hanover, NH, United States, Francesco Califano, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy and Gérard Belmont, Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, Saint-Maur Des Fossés Cedex, France
Optimal Use of Time Lags Between MMS Spacecraft : Application to the Estimation of Wave-Vectors (427293)
Gerard Marcel Chanteur1, Olivier Le Contel2, Alessandro Retino3, Laurent Mirioni2 and Drew L Turner4, (1)Ecole Polytechnique - LPP, Palaiseau, France, (2)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (UMR7648), CNRS/Sorbonne Université/Univ. Paris Saclay/Obs. de Paris/Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Paris, France, (3)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS/Sorbonne Université/Univ. Paris Saclay/Obs. de Paris/ Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France, (4)The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA, United States
Reconneted electron observed outside the electron edge: MMS observation (388260)
Shichen Bai1, Quanqi Shi1, Anmin Tian2, Alex W Degeling3 and Motoharu Nowada4, (1)Shandong University at Weihai, Institute of Space Science, Weihai, China, (2)Shandong University at Weihai, Weihai, China, (3)University of Alberta, Physics, Edmonton, Canada, (4)Tucson, AZ, United States
Angular Momentum and Angular Energy in the Dissipation, Energy Balance, and Topology of Magnetic Reconnection (450878)
Deirdre E Wendel1, Lee Roger Chevres-Fernandez2, Conrad Schiff1 and Yi-Hsin Liu3, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Department of Physics, Mayaguez, United States, (3)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States
Study of the role of angular momentum and energy in magnetic reconnection using PIC simulation of 3D reconnection and MMS data (457511)
Lee Roger Chevres Fernandez, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, Department of Physics, Mayaguez, PR, United States, Deirdre E Wendel, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Yi-Hsin Liu, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States

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