Exploring Turbulence, Magnetic Reconnection, and Non-Thermal Particle Distributions in Space Plasmas
Exploring Turbulence, Magnetic Reconnection, and Non-Thermal Particle Distributions in Space Plasmas
Session ID#: 280003
Session Description:
This session welcomes contributions from observational, numerical, analytical, and laboratory studies that explore turbulence, waves, magnetic reconnection, and non-thermal particles in the heliosphere. These phenomena showcase various aspects of nonlinear plasma dynamics and may also be interconnected. Turbulence can create current sheets that heat the plasma and initiate magnetic reconnection. Magnetic reconnection events can alter turbulent energy cascades and accelerate particles. Field-particle interactions can produce non-thermal, non-isotropic particle distributions, leading to instabilities and turbulence. We invite studies addressing these and related phenomena across various space environments, such as the solar corona, solar wind, and Earth's magnetosphere. We welcome contributions examining diverse regimes, including low and high plasma beta, weak and strong turbulence, balanced and imbalanced turbulent cascades, non-relativistic and relativistic dynamics, and fluctuations at hydrodynamic and kinetic scales.
Index Terms:
2772 Plasma waves and instabilities [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
7526 Magnetic reconnection [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7846 Plasma energization [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
7863 Turbulence [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
Primary Convener: Stanislav Boldyrev, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Physics, Madison, WI, United States
Conveners: Christopher H K Chen, Queen Mary University of London, Department of Physics and Astronomy, London, United Kingdom and Vadim Roytershteyn, Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States
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