SM22B:
Magnetic Reconnection and Related Phenomena in Geospace II

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Session ID#: 32960

Session Description:
Scientific results from Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) and other Heliospheric Science Observatory missions will be featured, with specific attention to resolved plasma conditions within the nested ion and electron dissipation regions of reconnection and their three-dimensional structure. Of particular interest are reports of analysis of the new data sets acquired during late 2016 and 2017 when MMS acquired dayside measurements at 12 Earth Radii near the Earth’s subsolar point and in the magnetotail out to 25 Earth Radii. Observations of fine-scaled structures within reconnection-related phenomena, for example, flux transfer events and dipolarization/injection fronts, are also appropriate to this session. Comparisons with appropriately resolved theory and modeling of magnetic reconnection are also encouraged. Both oral and poster presentations will be supported in proportion to demand for and availability of resources.
Primary Convener:  Thomas Earle Moore, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, United States
Conveners:  Barbara L Giles, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, United States, Barry Mauk, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States and Roy B Torbert, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Physics Department, Durham, NH, United States
Chairs:  Barbara L Giles, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, CA, Korea, Republic of (South) and Barry Mauk, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Roy B Torbert, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States

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

2723 Magnetic reconnection [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2736 Magnetosphere/ionosphere interactions [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
7845 Particle acceleration [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
7863 Turbulence [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The kinetic structure of the electron diffusionregion observed by MMS during asymmetricreconnection (287097)
Jan Egedal1, Ari Le2 and William S Daughton2, (1)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
Thin current sheets observation by MMS during a near-Earth’s magnetotail reconnection event (241855)
Rumi Nakamura1, Ali Varsani1, Takuma Nakamura2, Kevin Genestreti3, Ferdinand Plaschke4, Wolfgang Baumjohann1, Tsugunobu Nagai5, James L Burch6, Ian J Cohen7, Robert Ergun8, Stephen A Fuselier6, Barbara L Giles9, Olivier Le Contel10, Per-Arne Lindqvist11, Werner Magnes1, Steven J Schwartz12, Robert J Strangeway13 and Roy B Torbert6, (1)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Space Research Institute, Graz, Austria, (2)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (3)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, United States, (4)TU Braunschweig, Institute of Geophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics, Braunschweig, Germany, (5)ISAS/JAXA, Sagamihara, Japan, (6)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (7)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States, (8)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (10)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/UPMC, Paris, France, (11)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (12)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (13)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
The Spectrum of Scalar Indices of Agyrotropy (288159)
Jack D Scudder, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States and William S Daughton, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
Global Magnetosphere Modeling With Kinetic Treatment of Magnetic Reconnection (210972)
Gabor Toth1, Yuxi Chen2, Tamas I Gombosi3, Paul Cassak4, Stefano Markidis5, Bo Peng5 and Michael G Henderson6, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (2)University of Michigan, Climate and Space Science and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (3)University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (4)West Virginia University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Morgantown, United States, (5)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (6)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Energy conversion and dissipation at dipolarization fronts: Theory, modeling and MMS observations (246831)
Mikhail I Sitnov1, Tetsuo Motoba1, Viacheslav G Merkin1, Shinichi Ohtani2, Ian J Cohen3, Barry Mauk4, Sarah K Vines4, Brian J Anderson1, Thomas E Moore5, Roy B Torbert6, Barbara L Giles7 and James L Burch6, (1)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States, (4)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
MMS Observations of Vorticity Near Sites of Magnetic Reconnection (288731)
William R Paterson1, Barbara L Giles2, Levon A Avanov3, Scott A Boardsen4, John C Dorelli3, Daniel J Gershman2, David A Mackler5, Thomas Earle Moore6, Craig J Pollock7, Conrad Schiff8, Jason R Shuster2, Adolfo F Viñas9, C. T. Russell10, Robert J Strangeway11, James L Burch12 and Roy B Torbert12, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geospace Physics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Goddard Planetary Heliophysics Institute, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Catholic University of America, Physics, Washington, DC, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)Denali Scientific, San Antonio, TX, United States, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Aurora Engineering), Greenbelt, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (11)Univ California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (12)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States
MMS observations of magnetic reconnection signatures of dissipating ion inertial-scale flux ropes associated with dipolarization events (247623)
Gangkai Poh1, James A Slavin2, San Lu3, Guan Le4, Paul Cassak5, Jonathan P Eastwood6, Dogacan Su Ozturk2, Shasha Zou7, Rumi Nakamura8, Wolfgang Baumjohann9, Christopher T Russell10, Daniel J Gershman4, Barbara L Giles11, Craig Pollock12, Thomas Earle Moore13, Roy B Torbert14 and James L Burch14, (1)Catholic University of America, Dept. of Physics, Maryland, United States, (2)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)USTC University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)West Virginia University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Morgantown, United States, (6)Imperial College London, Physics, London, United Kingdom, (7)University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (8)Austrian Space Research Institute, Graz, Austria, (9)IWF Institute for Space Research, Graz, Austria, (10)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (11)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (12)West Virginia University, Greenbelt, United States, (13)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (14)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States
MMS Observations of Protons and Heavy Ions Acceleration at Plasma Jet Fronts (250834)
Filomena Catapano1, Alessandro Retino2, Gaetano Zimbardo3, Giulia Cozzani4, Hugo Breuillard5, Olivier Le Contel6, Alexandra Alexandrova7, Laurent Mirioni8, Ian J Cohen9, Drew L Turner10, Silvia Perri11, Antonella Greco12, Barry Mauk13, Roy B Torbert14, Christopher T Russell15, Yuri V Khotyaintsev16, Per-Arne Lindqvist17, James Webster18, Barbara L Giles19, Stephen A Fuselier14, Thomas Earle Moore20 and James L Burch14, (1)University of Calabria, Calabria, Italy, (2)CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, (3)University of Calabria, Rende Cs, Italy, (4)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, Saint-Maur Des Fossés Cedex, France, (5)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (UMR7648), CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/UPMC/Univ. Paris Sud/Obs. de Paris, Paris, France, (6)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/UPMC, Paris, France, (7)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS/Sorbonne université/Univ. Paris Saclay/Obs. de Paris/Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France, (8)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (UMR7648), CNRS/Sorbonne Université/Univ. Paris Saclay/Obs. de Paris/Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Paris, France, (9)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States, (10)The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA, United States, (11)Department of Physics, Fisica, Arcavacata di Rende, Italy, (12)Università della Calabria, Department of Physics, Rende, Italy, (13)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (14)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (15)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (16)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (17)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (18)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (19)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (20)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States

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