SM017
Interactive Visualizations of Magnetic Reconnection: Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Observations and Simulations

Session ID#: 78950

Session Description:
This session presents a novel opportunity for visualizing and interacting with results from NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission to elucidate the microphysics of magnetic reconnection in the natural laboratory of Earth's magnetosphere. The unprecedented spatiotemporal resolution of the four spacecraft constellation motivates exploration of new visualization techniques for space data. MMS observations of dayside magnetopause and nightside magnetotail reconnection will be presented in concert with state-of-the-art simulation predictions. Creative presentations of multispacecraft analysis and reconnection concepts are encouraged to best communicate the discoveries of this revolutionary mission. Examples of engaging, interactive formats could include animations of four-spacecraft time series data, movies of global or kinetic reconnection simulations to compare with MMS measurements, and three-dimensional visualizations of electromagnetic fields and plasma moments data. 

Abstracts submitted to this session are planned to utilize AGU's eLightning format. Depending on availability, this session may incorporate traditional posters.

eLightning format information: 

https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2018/files/2018/04/eLightning-description-2018.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og5aVuBTKjc

Index Terms:

2723 Magnetic reconnection [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2724 Magnetopause and boundary layers [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2744 Magnetotail [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
7835 Magnetic reconnection [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]

Primary Convener:  Jason R Shuster, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Frederick D Wilder, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Cecilia Norgren, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Primary Liaison:  Jason R Shuster, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
“Patchy” Magnetic Reconnection: Magnetospheric Multiscale Observations and Particle-in-Cell Simulations (Invited) (487716)
Kevin James Genestreti1, Yi-Hsin Liu2, Ari Le3, Takuma Nakamura4, Richard Eugene Denton5, Roy B Torbert6, Paul Cassak7, Ivan Dors6, James L Burch1, James Webster8, Rumi Nakamura9, Matthew R Argall10, Dominic Payne11, Tai Phan12, Stephen A Fuselier13, Karlheinz J Trattner14, Barbara L Giles15, Robert Ergun16, Narges Ahmadi17, Christopher T Russell18 and Robert J Strangeway19, (1)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (5)Dartmouth College, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hanover, NH, United States, (6)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (7)West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States, (8)Rice University, Physics, Houston, United States, (9)Space Research Institute, Graz, Austria, (10)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (11)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (12)Univ California, Berkeley, CA, United States, (13)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (14)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (15)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (16)University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (17)University of Colorado at Boulder, LASP, Boulder, CO, United States, (18)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth Planetary and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (19)Univ California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
What is the shortest possible x-line extent for 3D magnetic reconnection? (Invited) (501796)
Yi-Hsin Liu, Dartmouth College, Physics and Astronomy, Hanover, NH, United States, Kai Huang, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China; Dartmouth College, Hanover, United States, Tak Chu Li, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, Michael Hesse, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Wei-Jie Sun, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Jiang Liu, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Los Angeles, CA, United States, James Burch, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, James A Slavin, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Quanming Lu, Univ. Sci. & Tech. of China, Hefei, China
 
Magnetopause reconnection revealed by the GS reconstruction model and the MMS data (514524)
Guan Wen Chen1 and Lin-Ni Hau1,2, (1)Institute of Space Science, National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan, (2)Department of Physics, National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan
 
Dynamics of Electron-Scale Current Sheet Equilibria based on MMS Observations (524772)
David L Newman, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Giovanni Lapenta, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Department of Mathematics, Leuven, Belgium and Martin V Goldman, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Magnetopause Reconnection as Influenced by the Dipole Tilt under Southward IMF Conditions: MMS Observations and Hybrid Simulation (543723)
Zhifang Guo1, Yu Lin2, Xueyi Wang2, Sarah K. Vines3 and Sun Hee Lee4, (1)Auburn University, Physics Department, Auburn, United States, (2)Auburn University, Physics Department, Auburn, AL, United States, (3)University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (4)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States
 
Characteristics of Reconnection at the Center of a Flux Rope-Type Dipolarization Front (546543)
Andrew Marshall, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States
 
On the effect of cold ions on dipolarization fronts (581935)
Cecilia Norgren1, Michael Hesse1, Yin Xu2, Paul Tenfjord3, Hakon Kolsto3, Susanne Spinnangr3 and Huishan Fu2, (1)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (2)Beihang University, Beijing, China, (3)University of Bergen, Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway
 
Electron-Scale Magnetic Islands from Adjacent Electron Diffusion Regions (617001)
James Webster1, James Burch2, Patricia H Reiff1, Andrew Marshall1, Kevin James Genestreti3, Wenya Li4, Yi-Hsin Liu5, Frederick D Wilder6, Daniel Bruce Graham4, Robert Ergun7, Barbara L Giles8 and Roy B Torbert9, (1)Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (4)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (5)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, (6)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (9)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
 
Visualizing Tail Disconnection and Dipolarization Events with MMS (624370)
Patricia H Reiff1, Asher D Pembroke2, Richard Eugene Denton3, Roy B Torbert4, James Webster5, Andrew Marshall1, Lutz Rastaetter2 and Darren De Zeeuw6, (1)Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Dartmouth College, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hanover, NH, United States, (4)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (5)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (6)Center for Space Environment Modeling, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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