SM14B:
Multiscale Structure and Dynamics of Earth's Dayside Magnetopause:  Results from the First MMS Dayside Season II

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Session ID#: 17833

Session Description:
NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission completed its first dayside season on March 8, 2016.  With a spacecraft separation as small as 10 km, MMS now probes the sub ion-scale structure of Earth's dayside magnetopause, observing the plasma and fields at comparable temporal resolutions for the first time.  Comparison of these observations with simulations has provided many new insights into the structure of the magnetopause boundary layer, including:  the structure of the electron and ion diffusion regions in asymmetric reconnection, the ion-scale structure of reconnection exhausts, the role of secondary islands in the reconnection process, the nature of turbulent fluctuations in the magnetosheath and low latitude boundary layers, the kinetic structure of Flux Transfer Events (FTEs), and the large scale topology of the dayside magnetopause.  We solicit abstracts investigating these and related topics using observations, theory and modeling, and laboratory experiments, with emphasis on relevance to the interpretation of MMS data.
Primary Convener:  John Dorelli, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Steven M Petrinec, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Arlington, VA, United States, Paul Cassak, West Virginia University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Morgantown, United States and Benoit Lavraud, Laboratoire d'astrophysique de Bordeaux, Pessac, France
Chairs:  John Dorelli, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Steven M Petrinec, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Arlington, VA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  John Dorelli, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Index Terms:

2723 Magnetic reconnection [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2724 Magnetopause and boundary layers [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2728 Magnetosheath [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2784 Solar wind/magnetosphere interactions [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The Nature of Dissipation in Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection (125407)
Michael Hesse1, Li-Jen Chen2, Yi-Hsin Liu2, Naoki Bessho3, Maria M Kuznetsova2 and James L Burch4, (1)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, College Park, United States, (4)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States
Three-dimensional Particle-in-cell Simulations of an MMS Observationof Guide Field Reconnection at the Magnetopause (136241)
Marc Swisdak1, Lora Price2 and James Frederick Drake2, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Influence of Lower-Hybrid Turbulence on the Three-Dimensional Evolution of Magnetopause Reconnection (189935)
William S Daughton1, Ari Le1, Li-Jen Chen2 and Jan Egedal3, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
Electron distribution functions and collisionless resistivity during asymmetric reconnection (162266)
Naoki Bessho, University of Maryland College Park; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, College Park, United States, Li-Jen Chen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Michael Hesse, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Structure and Dynamics of the Magnetopause: Comparison between the results of multiscale simulations and MMS observations (151987)
Jean Berchem1, Giovanni Lapenta2, Meng Zhou1, Mostafa El-Alaoui3, Robert L Richard1, David Schriver1, Raymond J Walker4, Melvyn L Goldstein5, Christopher T Russell6, Robert J Strangeway7, William R Paterson5, Barbara L Giles8, Benoit Lavraud9, Yuri V Khotyaintsev10, James Webster11, Roy B Torbert12 and James L Burch13, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)KU Leuven, Mathematics, Leuven, Belgium, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (7)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (9)Laboratoire d'astrophysique de Bordeaux, Pessac, France, (10)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (11)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (12)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (13)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States
Validation of 2D and 3D MHD with embedded PIC (MHD-EPIC) simulations against MMS observations (149260)
Yuxi Chen1, Gabor Toth2, Tamas I Gombosi3, Stefano Markidis4, Ivy Bo Peng4, Paul Cassak5 and Heli Hietala6, (1)University of Michigan, Climate and Space Science and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (3)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (4)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (5)West Virginia University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Morgantown, United States, (6)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States
Electron Acceleration at the Dayside Magnetopause (167958)
Robert L Richard1, Jean Berchem1, Giovanni Lapenta2, David Schriver1, Raymond J Walker3 and Mostafa El-Alaoui4, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)KU Leuven, Mathematics, Leuven, Belgium, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Simulation services and analysis tools at the CCMC to study multi-scale structure and dynamics of Earth’s magnetopause (177475)
Maria M Kuznetsova1, Yi-Hsin Liu1, Lutz Rastaetter2, Asher D Pembroke3, Li-Jen Chen1, Michael Hesse4, Alex Glocer5, Colin M Komar6, John Dorelli1 and Vadim Roytershteyn7, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Community Coordinated Modeling Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, CA, United States, (4)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geospace Physics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States

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