SM028
Magnetic Reconnection: Connecting Ideas from Observations, Experiments, Models, and Theory I

Friday, 11 December 2020: 05:30-06:30
Virtual
Primary Convener:  Kevin James Genestreti, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
Conveners:  Yi-Hsin Liu, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, Michael Hesse, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway and Jongsoo Yoo, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kevin James Genestreti, Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States
Chairs:  Kevin James Genestreti, Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States and Yi-Hsin Liu, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Kevin James Genestreti, Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States
05:30
Perspectives on Magnetic Reconnection from MMS (Invited) (669436)
James L Burch1, Roy B Torbert2, Tai Phan3, Kevin James Genestreti1, Michael Hesse4, James Frederick Drake5 and Cecilia Norgren6, (1)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (5)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (6)University of Bergen, Space Plasma Physics Group, Bergen, Norway
05:34
Magnetic-field annihilation and island formation in electron-scale current sheet in Earth's magnetotail (671394)
Hiroshi Hasegawa1, Richard Eugene Denton2, Kevin James Genestreti3, Takuma K. M. Nakamura4, Tai Phan5, Rumi Nakamura6, Kyoung-Joo Hwang7, Narges Ahmadi8, Quanqi Shi9, Michael Hesse10, James Burch7, James Webster3, Roy B Torbert11, Barbara L Giles12, Daniel J Gershman12, Christopher T Russell13, Robert J Strangeway14, Per-Arne Lindqvist15, Yuri Khotyaintsev16, Robert Ergun8 and Yoshifumi Saito17, (1)ISAS/JAXA, Sagamihara, Japan, (2)Dartmouth College, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hanover, NH, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (4)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Space Reserach Institute, Graz, Austria, (5)Univ California, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)Space Reserach Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (7)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (8)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)Shandong University at Weihai, Weihai, China, (10)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (11)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (12)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (13)University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (14)Univ California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (15)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (16)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden, (17)Inst Space & Astronautical Sci, Kanagawa, Japan
05:38
Electron firehose instability operating in the electron diffusion region (731196)
Alexandra Alexandrova1, Alessandro Retino2, Olivier Le Contel3, Andrey V Divin4, Daniel J Gershman5, Barbara L Giles5, Levon A Avanov5, Robert J Strangeway6, Ferdinand Plaschke7, Per-Arne Lindqvist8, Yuri Khotyaintsev9, Robert Ergun10, Stephen A Fuselier11, Rumi Nakamura12, Matthew R Argall13, David Fischer14, Roy B Torbert15 and James L Burch16, (1)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/UPMC/Univ. Paris Sud/Obs. de Paris, Saint-Maur Des Fossés Cedex, France, (2)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, Palaiseau, France, (3)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (UMR7648), CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/UPMC/Univ. Paris Sud/Obs. de Paris, Paris, France, (4)St. Petersburg State university, St Petersburg, Russia, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)Univ California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (7)IWF ÖAW, Graz, Austria, (8)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (9)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden, (10)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (11)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (12)Space Research Institute, Graz, Austria, (13)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (14)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (15)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (16)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States
05:42
Diffusion Region of Reconnection in the Presence of a Shear Flow (766888)
Michael A Shay, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, Colby C Haggerty, University of Chicago, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Chicago, IL, United States, Paul Cassak, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States, Tai D. Phan, SSL, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States and Prayash Sharma Pyakurel, University of Delaware, Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States
05:46
A new method to identify active reconnection in kinetic turbulent plasmas (704504)
Tak Chu Li1, Yi-Hsin Liu1 and Yi Qi2, (1)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
05:50
How EDR-related currents close in particle-in-cell simulations (721658)
Paul Tenfjord, Michael Hesse, Cecilia Norgren, Susanne Flø Spinnangr, Hakon Kolsto and Norah Kaggwa Kwagala, University of Bergen, Space Plasma Physics Group, Bergen, Norway
05:54
Laboratory verification of electron-scale diffusion regions modulated by a three-dimensional instability (662168)
Samuel Greess1, Jan Egedal1, Joseph Olson2, Adam Stanier3, William S Daughton4, Ari Le3, Rachel Myers1, Alexander Millet-Ayala1, Michael Clark1, John Wallace1, Douglass Endrizzi1 and Cary Forest1, (1)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)MS-F699, Plasma Theory and App, Los Alamos, NM, United States
05:58
Thermodynamics of the Collisional-Collisionless Phase Transition in Magnetic Reconnection (752650)
Jonathan Jara-Almonte, Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States and Hantao Ji, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
06:02
Discussion