SH43C:
Implications and Applications of Kappa Distributions in Space Plasma Physics II

Session ID#: 4409

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
2012 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  George Livadiotis, Princeton University, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, Ioannis Kourakis, Khalifa University of Science and technology, Mathematics, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and Jacob Heerikhuisen, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Space Science, Huntsville, AL, United States
Primary Convener:  George Livadiotis, Princeton University, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States
Co-conveners:  Ioannis Kourakis, Khalifa University of Science and technology, Mathematics, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and Jacob Heerikhuisen, U of AL/Huntsville-CSPAR, Huntsville, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Jacob Heerikhuisen, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Space Science, Huntsville, AL, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • NG - Nonlinear Geophysics
  • SA - SPA-Aeronomy
  • SM - SPA-Magnetospheric Physics
Index Terms:

7827 Kinetic and MHD theory [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
7829 Kinetic waves and instabilities [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
7836 MHD waves and instabilities [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
7845 Particle acceleration [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The kappa Distribution as Tool in Investigating Hot Plasmas in the Magnetospheres of Outer Planets (Invited) (2842)
Stamatios Mike Krimigis, Academy of Athens, Space, Athens, Greece and James F Carbary, Johns Hopkins Univ, Laurel, MD, United States
The Common Spectrum in the Heliosphere: Observations and a Theory to Explain the Observations (4804)
George Gloeckler and Lennard A Fisk, Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Low Energy Neutral Atoms and Kappa Ion Distributions in the Heliosheath (10716)
Stephen A Fuselier1, Frederic Allegrini1, Maciej A Bzowski2, Maher A Dayeh1, Mihir Indrajit Desai1, Herbert O Funsten3, Andre Galli4, David Heirtzler5, Paul H Janzen6, Marzena A Kubiak2, Harald Kucharek7, William S Lewis8, George Livadiotis9, David J McComas10, Eberhard Möbius11, Steven M Petrinec12, Marty Scott Quinn13, Nathan Schwadron14, Justyna M Sokol15 and Karlheinz J Trattner16, (1)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (2)Space Research Center of Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, ISR-DO, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)University of Bern, Physics Institute, Space Research and Planetary Sciences, Bern, Switzerland, (5)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (6)University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States, (7)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (8)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (9)Princeton University, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, (10)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (11)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (12)Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Cupertino, United States, (13)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, United States, (14)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (15)Space Research Center Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland, (16)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States
The Dispersion Relations for Dispersive Alfvén Waves in Superthermal Plasmas (17274)
Rudi Gaelzer, UFRGS Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil and Luiz F Ziebell, UFRGS Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Rio Grande, Brazil
On the Radial Evolution of κ-Distributions of Pick-up Protons in the Supersonic Solar Wind (8386)
Horst Fichtner1, Hans-Joerg Fahr2 and Klaus Scherer1, (1)Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, (2)University of Bonn, AIFA, Bonn, Germany
Electron kappa distribution, quasi-thermal noise, and spontaneously-emitted electromagnetic fluctuations (Invited) (2732)
Peter H Yoon, Univ Maryland, College Park, MD, United States; Kyung Hee Univ., Yongin, South Korea
Quasi-Conformality of a Non-Extensive Entropy and Kappa Distributions (3557)
Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
Discussion