SM020
Magnetic reconnection – connecting ideas from observations, experiments and models.

Session ID#: 74966

Session Description:
Whereby changing the connectivity of magnetic field lines, magnetic reconnection rapidly unleashes the magnetic energy stored in nature. Reconnection is critically important for coupling the solar wind and Earth’s magnetosphere, it can also trigger sawtooth crashes in thermal fusion devices. However, many aspects of magnetic reconnection remain unclear, including microscopic physics, the onset, particle energization, three-dimensional properties, the role of turbulence, et cetera.

Earth's magnetosphere and the solar winds are natural laboratories in which magnetic reconnection can be observed. On the ground, numerical simulations and terrestrial experiments offer alternative approaches to unravel the details of this critical process. Each path is proven to has its own advantages but also the limitations. Synthesizing knowledge learned from these different communities can reveal fundamental truths about how reconnection occurs.


In this session, we provide the venue to cross-fertilize our understanding of magnetic reconnection form modelers, observers, and experimentalists.

Index Terms:

2723 Magnetic reconnection [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2744 Magnetotail [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
7526 Magnetic reconnection [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7835 Magnetic reconnection [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]

Primary Convener:  Yi-Hsin Liu, Dartmouth College, Physics and Astronomy, Hanover, NH, United States
Conveners:  Michael Hesse, University of Bergen, Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway, Kevin James Genestreti, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States and Jongsoo Yoo, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Yi-Hsin Liu, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States
 
Turbulence caused by reconnection: evidence for different regimes obtained from simulation, spacecraft in-situ data and laboratory experiments. (491181)
Giovanni Lapenta1, Francesco Pucci1, Martin V Goldman2, David L Newman2 and Stefan Eriksson2, (1)Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Department of Mathematics, Leuven, Belgium, (2)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
 
On the Ion Distributions at the Separatrices during Symmetric Magnetic Reconnection (496300)
Hongtao Huang, Beihang University, Beijing, China, Yiqun Yu, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Lei Dai, Center for Space Science and Applied Research (CSSAR), CAS, Beijing, China and Rongsheng Wang, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
 
Asymmetric reconnection at the bow shock (498236)
Maria Hamrin1, Herbert Gunell2, Oleksandr Goncharov3, Alexandre De Spiegeleer1, Stephen A Fuselier4, Joey Mukherjee5, Andris Vaivads6, Roy B Torbert7 and Barbara L Giles8, (1)Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, (2)BIRA-IASB, Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium, (3)Charles University, Prague, 180, Czech Republic, (4)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (5)Southwest Research Inst, San Antonio, TX, United States, (6)Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, (7)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Energy and flux moments of multi-beam velocity distributions measured during reconnection (499978)
Martin V Goldman, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, David L Newman, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Jonathan P Eastwood, Imperial College London, Physics, London, United Kingdom and Giovanni Lapenta, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Department of Mathematics, Leuven, Belgium
 
Electron acceleration and thermalization at reconnection separatrices (Invited) (500980)
Cecilia Norgren1, Daniel Graham2, Matthew R Argall3, Yuri Khotyaintsev4, Andris Vaivads5, Michael Hesse1, Konrad Steinvall2, Daniel J Gershman6, Per-Arne Lindqvist7, James Burch8, Ferdinand Plaschke9, Paul Tenfjord10 and The MMS Team, (1)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (2)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (3)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (4)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden, (5)Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (8)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (9)IWF ÖAW, Graz, Austria, (10)University of Bergen, Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway
 
Electron Scale Interactions at the Reconnection Separatrix (501686)
Justin C. Holmes, Space Research Institute, Graz, Austria, Rumi Nakamura, Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria and Takuma Nakamura, Space Research Institute, Graz-St Peter, Austria
 
Magnetic reconnection in polarized current sheet (502947)
San Lu1, Vassilis Angelopoulos2, Anton Artemyev3, Jiang Liu1 and Andrei Runov1, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Dependence of kinetic entropy on plasma temperature in particle-in-cell simulations of antiparallel reconnection (504120)
Mahmud Hasan Barbhuiya1, Haoming Liang1, Paul Cassak1, Vadim Roytershteyn2 and Marc Swisdak3, (1)West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States, (2)Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
 
X-line spreading in three-dimensional asymmetric magnetic reconnection (507479)
Tak Chu Li1, Yi-Hsin Liu1, Michael Hesse2 and Ying Zou3, (1)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (3)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
 
Statistical study on electron and ion temperatures in the near-Earth reconnection and magnetic pile-up regions (509121)
Kaori Watanabe1, Kunihiro Keika1, Masahiro Hoshino1, Naritoshi Kitamura1, Yoshifumi Saito2, Barbara L Giles3 and William R Paterson3, (1)The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (2)Inst Space & Astronautical Sci, Kanagawa, Japan, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Energy Transport and Partition in the Vicinity of the Magnetopause Reconnection Electron Dissipation Region (511635)
Jonathan P Eastwood1, Martin V Goldman2, Tai Phan3, Julia E Stawarz4, Imogen Gingell5, Sadie Robertson1, David L Newman2, Benoit Lavraud6, Michael A Shay7, Paul Cassak8, James Frederick Drake9, Michael Hesse10, James Webster11, James Burch12, Daniel J Gershman13, Barbara L Giles14, Per-Arne Lindqvist15, Roy B Torbert16, Robert J Strangeway17 and Christopher T Russell18, (1)Imperial College London, Physics, London, United Kingdom, (2)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Univ California, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, (5)Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (6)IRAP/CNRS, Toulouse, France, (7)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (8)West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States, (9)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (10)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (11)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (12)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (13)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (14)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (15)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (16)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (17)Univ California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (18)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth Planetary and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Generation of the lower-hybrid wave inside a reconnecting current sheet in space and laboratory (512817)
Jongsoo Yoo1, Shan Wang2, Manfred V Ambat3, Hantao Ji4, Jonathan Jara-Almonte1, Li J Chen5, Masaaki Yamada1 and William Fox6, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (3)University of Rochester, Rochester, United States, (4)Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
On the Effect of Cold Protons on Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection (514538)
Susanne Spinnangr1, Michael Hesse2, Paul Tenfjord2, Cecilia Norgren2 and Hakon Kolsto1, (1)University of Bergen, Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway, (2)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
 
Dynamics of Energy Conversion in Generator Regions During Magnetic Reconnection (516578)
Dominic Payne1, Kevin James Genestreti2, Roy B Torbert3, Kai Germaschewski2, Matthew R Argall2, James L Burch4, Jason R Shuster1, Ivan Dors3, Charles J Farrugia5, Barbara L Giles6, Anthony J Rogers7 and Paul Cassak8, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (3)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (4)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (5)University of New Hampshire, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Durham, NH, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)Anaheim, CA, United States, (8)West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States
 
Parametric Study of the Out-Of-Plane Tripolar Magnetic Field Component with Particle-In-Cell Simulations (519271)
Vitor Moura Cardoso e Silva Souza1, Paul Cassak2, Stefan Eriksson3, Haoming Liang2 and Walter Gonzalez1, (1)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (2)West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States, (3)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Effect of Out-of-Plane (Guide) Magnetic Field on the Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection Rate (519732)
Haoming Liang1, Paul Cassak1, Marc Swisdak2, Thomas Hartke3, Marit Oieroset4, Tai Phan4, Yi-Hsin Liu5, Michael Hesse6, Michael A Shay7 and Matthew Beidler1, (1)West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States, (2)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (3)Washington, DC, United States, (4)Univ California, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, (6)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (7)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
 
Exploring the physics of sawtooth oscillations from MHD-EPIC simulations (519791)
Yuxi Chen1, Gabor Toth2, Xiantong Wang2, Tamas I Gombosi2, Daniel T Welling3, Michael G Henderson4, Stefano Markidis5 and Paul Cassak6, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States, (4)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (5)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (6)West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States
 
Three dimensional simulations of lower-hybrid instabilities in moderate guide-field magnetotail reconnection (528877)
Jonathan Ng1, Li-Jen Chen2, Ari Le3, Adam Stanier3, Shan Wang4 and Naoki Bessho1,2, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
 
On the Impact of a Streaming Oxygen Population on Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection (535120)
Hakon Kolsto1, Michael Hesse2, Paul Tenfjord1, Cecilia Norgren2 and Susanne Spinnangr1, (1)University of Bergen, Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway, (2)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
 
Dependence of Solar Wind-Magnetospheric Coupling on Reconnection Physics (544039)
Paul Cassak, West Virginia University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Morgantown, WV, United States, Colin M Komar, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Alex Glocer, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Dayside magnetopause reconnection: Its dependence on solar wind and magnetosheath conditions (550085)
Daiki Koga1,2, Walter Gonzalez1,2, Vitor Souza1, Flavia R Cardoso3, Chi Wang4 and Zhengkuan LIU4, (1)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (2)State Key Laboratory of Space Weather, National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)Escola de Engenharia de Lorena/Universidade de Sao Paulo-EEL/USP, São Paulo, Brazil, (4)NSSC National Space Science Center, CAS, Beijing, China
 
Three Dimensional Electron-Only Reconnection (552386)
Prayash Sharma, University of Delaware, Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States, Michael A Shay, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, Tai Phan, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, James Frederick Drake, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States and Paul Cassak, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States
 
Turbulence in Three-Dimensional Guide-Field Reconnection at the Magnetopause (555999)
Marc Swisdak, Lora Price and James Frederick Drake, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
 
Magnetic Field Fluctuations Observed Adjacent to a Secondary Electron Diffusion Region at the Dayside Magnetopause (559926)
Sanni Hoilijoki1, Robert Ergun2,3, James Webster4, Frederick D Wilder3, Stefan Eriksson3, Steven J Schwartz3, Narges Ahmadi5, Katherine Goodrich6, Olivier Le Contel7, Robert J Strangeway8, Barbara L Giles9, Roy B Torbert10 and James L Burch11, (1)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, (5)University of Colorado at Boulder, LASP, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (7)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (UMR7648), CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/UPMC/Univ. Paris Sud/Obs. de Paris, Paris, France, (8)UCLA IGPP/ESS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (11)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States
 
A Statistical Study of Slow-mode Shocks and Rotational Discontinuities in the Dayside Magnetopause Observed by Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) (561837)
Nehpreet Walia1, Kanako Seki2, Masahiro Hoshino2, Takanobu Amano3, Naritoshi Kitamura2, Yoshifumi Saito4, Shoichiro Yokota5, Craig J Pollock6, Barbara L Giles6, Thomas E Moore6, Roy B Torbert7, Christopher T Russell8 and James L Burch9, (1)University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (2)The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (3)The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (4)Inst Space & Astronautical Sci, Kanagawa, Japan, (5)ISAS/JAXA, Sagamihara, Japan, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (8)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth Planetary and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (9)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States
 
Electron mixing in the exhaust of asymmetric magnetic reconnection with a guide field (564466)
Binbin Tang, NSSC National Space Science Center, CAS, SKL of Space Weather, Beijing, China, W.Y. Li, NSSC National Space Science Center, CAS, Beijing, China, Ari Le, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Daniel Graham, IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, Chi Wang, CSSAR, CAS, Beijing, China, Yuri Khotyaintsev, IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden, Jan Egedal, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States and MMS science working team
 
Laboratory collisionless magnetic reconnection studies with the addition of a guide field on the Terrestrial Reconnection Experiment (571397)
Alexander Millet-Ayala, Jan Egedal, Joseph Olson, Samuel Greess, Rachel Myers, John Wallace, Michael Clark and Cary Forest, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
 
What can we infer about the ion diffusion region from oxygen ion observations? (574233)
Suiyan Fu1, Tong Wu1, Weijie Sun1, Shaojie Zhao2, Qiugang Zong1, Zuyin Pu3, Lun Xie3 and Xuzhi Zhou1, (1)Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Peking university, Beijing, China, (3)Peking University, Beijing, China
 
Electromagnetic Energy Conversion within Reconnection Diffusion Regions (582135)
Roy B Torbert1, James L Burch2, Matthew R Argall3, Charles J Farrugia4, Ivan Dors1, Dominic Payne5, Kevin James Genestreti3, Anthony J Rogers6, Robert J Strangeway7, Robert Ergun8, Yuri Khotyaintsev9 and Barbara L Giles10, (1)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Durham, NH, United States, (5)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (6)Anaheim, CA, United States, (7)Univ California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (8)University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden, (10)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
On the fast magnetic reconnection rate value of order 0.1 (584073)
Yi-Hsin Liu1, Michael Hesse2, Paul Cassak3, Takuma Nakamura4, Fan Guo5, William S Daughton6, Michael A Shay7, Hui Li5, Shan Wang8 and Li J Chen9, (1)Dartmouth College, Physics and Astronomy, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (3)West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States, (4)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (5)Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (6)MS-F699, Plasma Theory and App, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (7)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (8)Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
An Encounter with the Electron Diffusion Region at a Flapping, Twisted Tail Current Sheet (584292)
Charles J Farrugia1, Anthony J Rogers2, Roy B Torbert3, Kevin James Genestreti4, Matthew R Argall4, Benoit Lavraud5, Ivan Dors3, Hiroshi Matsui1, Dominic Payne1, Noé Lugaz6, C. T. Russell7, Patricia H Reiff8, Amy M Keesee9, James Burch10, Takuma K. M. Nakamura11 and Stephen A Fuselier10, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Space Science Center, Durham, United States, (3)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (5)IRAP/CNRS, Toulouse, France, (6)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (7)UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (8)Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, (9)University of New Hampshire, Physics and Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, (10)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (11)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria
 
On the Nature of Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection at the Earth’s Magnetopause (585825)
James L Burch1, James Webster2, Michael Hesse3, Kevin James Genestreti4, Paul Cassak5, Roy B Torbert4, Barbara L Giles6, Robert Ergun7, Christopher T Russell8, Robert J Strangeway8, Kristina Renee Pritchard9, Kyoung-Joo Hwang1, Kyunghwan Dokgo1 and Stephen A Fuselier1, (1)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, (3)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (4)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (5)West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (9)University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States
 
Testing the Efficacy of Selected Scalar Parameters for Identifying Ion Diffusion Regions in MMS Data (588353)
Anthony J Rogers, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Physics, Durham, NH, United States, Charles J Farrugia, University of New Hampshire, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Durham, NH, United States and Roy B Torbert, Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
 
Collisionless Reconnection with Electron Pressure Anisotropy Explored in the Terrestrial Reconnection Experiment (TREX) (Invited) (589559)
Jan Egedal, Joseph Olson, Samuel Greess, Alexander Millet-Ayala, Rachel Myers and Cary Forest, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
 
The role of oxygen ions on local and global dynamics during reconnection in the Magnetotail (589888)
Akhtar S Ardakani1, Christopher Mouikis2, Lynn M Kistler2, Vadim Roytershteyn3, Yuri Omelchenko4 and Roy B Torbert2, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (2)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (3)Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)UCSD, San Diego, CA, United States
 
How neutral is quasi-neutral: Charge Density in the Reconnection Diffusion Region Observed by MMS. (590915)
Matthew R Argall1, Jason R Shuster1, Ivan Dors2, Kevin James Genestreti3, Takuma K. M. Nakamura4, Roy B Torbert2, James M Webster5, Narges Ahmadi6, Robert Ergun7, Robert J Strangeway8, Barbara L Giles9 and James Burch10, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (2)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (4)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (5)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (6)University of Colorado at Boulder, LASP, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)Univ California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
 
Magnetotail Current Sheet Prior to Magnetic Reconnection (593592)
Alexandra Alexandrova, Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, Alessandro Retino, Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, Palaiseau, France, Olivier Le Contel, Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (UMR7648), CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/UPMC/Univ. Paris Sud/Obs. de Paris, Paris, France, Andrey V Divin, St. Petersburg State university, St Petersburg, Russia, Robert J Strangeway, Univ California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Ferdinand Plaschke, IWF ÖAW, Graz, Austria, Daniel J Gershman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Barbara L Giles, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Per-Arne Lindqvist, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, Yuri Khotyaintsev, IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden, Robert Ergun, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Stephen A Fuselier, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, Rumi Nakamura, Space Reserach Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, Matthew R Argall, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, David Fischer, Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, Roy B Torbert, Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States and James L Burch, Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States
 
Polynomial reconstruction of the magnetic field around the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft (595484)
Richard Eugene Denton1, Roy B Torbert2, Yi-Hsin Liu3, Hiroshi Hasegawa4, Ivan Dors2, Kevin James Genestreti5, Christopher T Russell6, Robert J Strangeway7, Barbara L Giles8, Olivier Le Contel9 and James L Burch10, (1)Dartmouth College, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (3)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, (4)JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Sagamihara, Japan, (5)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (6)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth Planetary and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (7)Univ California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (9)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (UMR7648), CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/UPMC/Univ. Paris Sud/Obs. de Paris, Paris, France, (10)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States
 
Reconnection Rate of Dayside Magnetopause Asymmetric Reconnection at the Electron Scale (601259)
Kristina Renee Pritchard1, James Burch2, Stephen A Fuselier2, James Webster3, Kevin James Genestreti4, Roy B Torbert5, Paul Cassak6, Barbara L Giles7, Christopher T Russell8 and Robert J Strangeway9, (1)University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (5)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (6)West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth Planetary and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (9)Univ California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Statistical properties of magnetic structures during turbulent reconnection in the Earth’s magnetotail (603746)
Kendra Bergstedt, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, Hantao Ji, Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ, United States and Matthew Chen, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
Fast reconnection in partially ionized plasmas (605254)
Jonathan Jara-Almonte1, Nicholas A Murphy2, Hantao Ji3, William S Daughton4, Jongsoo Yoo5 and Masaaki Yamada5, (1)Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ, United States, (4)MS-F699, Plasma Theory and App, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (5)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
Electron Vortex Flows, Vortex Topology, and Angular Momentum in Magnetic Reconnection (605582)
Deirdre E Wendel, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Alexander J Klimas and Yi-Hsin Liu, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States
 
The Plasmoid Instability in Partially Ionized Plasmas (622864)
Yi-Min Huang, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, Bhishek Manek, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Amitava Bhattacharjee, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
Non-ideal Electric Field Observed in the Separatrix Region of a Magnetotail Reconnection Event (623915)
Rongsheng Wang1, Quanming Lu2, Xiancai Yu1 and Christopher T Russell3, (1)University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (2)Univ. Sci. & Tech. of China, Hefei, China, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth Planetary and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
MMS observations of the structure, evolution, and heating in the diffusion region of a reconnecting magnetosheath current sheet (630228)
Marit Oieroset, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Tai D. Phan, SSL, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, Michael A Shay, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, Prayash Sharma, University of Delaware, Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States, Jonathan P Eastwood, Imperial College London, Physics, London, United Kingdom, James L Burch, Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, Roy B Torbert, Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, Robert Ergun, University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, Daniel J Gershman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Barbara L Giles, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Robert J Strangeway, Univ California, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Christopher T Russell, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth Planetary and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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