SM027
Magnetic Reconnection: Connecting Ideas from Observations, Experiments, Models, and Theory II

Friday, 11 December 2020: 04:00-05:00
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:  Yi-Hsin Liu, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Jongsoo Yoo, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Yi-Hsin Liu, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States
04:00
Insights into Fast Magnetic Reconnection in Highly-extended Current Sheets with Laser-produced Plasmas (Invited) (749423)
William Fox1, Derek Schaeffer2, Jackson Matteucci2, Michael Rosenberg3, Gennady Fiksel4, Hye-Sook Park5, Archie Bott6, Kirill Lezhnin2, Amitava Bhattacharjee7, Daniel Kalantar5, Bruce Remington5, Dmitri A Uzdensky8, Chikang Li9, Fredrick Seguin9 and Suxing Hu10, (1)Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)University of Rochester, Rochester, United States, (4)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (5)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States, (6)Princeton University, Princeton, United States, (7)Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (8)University of Colorado Boulder, Physics Dept., Center for Integrated Plasma Studies, Boulder, CO, UNITED STATES, (9)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, (10)University of Rochester, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Rochester, NY, United States
04:04
FLARE: a collaborative research facility to study magnetic reconnection and related phenomena (752517)
Hantao Ji1, Jongsoo Yoo1, Jonathan Jara-Almonte2, Aaron Goodman1, Yang Ren1, Masaaki Yamada2, Kendra Bergstedt1, Steven Majeski3, Andrew Alt1, Sayak Bose2, Amitava Bhattacharjee1, William Fox1, William S Daughton4, Adam Stanier5 and The FLARE Construction Team, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)Princeton University, Princeton, United States, (4)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (5)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
04:08
Numerical Study of X-ray Jets from Coronal Hole in the Sun and Its Laboratory Investigation (735777)
Masaaki Yamada1, Elena Belova1, Joshua Latham2 and MRX team, PPPL, (1)Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Princeton University, Physics, Princeton, NJ, United States
04:12
Experimental study of energy conversion/transport process during magnetic reconnection in flux tube merging experiments (679341)
Hiroshi Tanabe1, Cao Qinghong2, Haruaki Tanaka2, Moe Akimitsu2, Tara Ahmadi2, Ryo Someya2, Michiaki Inomoto2, Yasushi Ono2 and TS-group, (1)University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (2)University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
04:16
Evolution of macro- and micro-scale turbulence during magnetic reconnection (722324)
Takuma Nakamura, Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, Hiroshi Hasegawa, JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Sagamihara, Japan, Kevin James Genestreti, Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, Richard Eugene Denton, Dartmouth College, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hanover, NH, United States, Tai Phan, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Rumi Nakamura, Space Reserach Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria
04:20
MMS Observations of Forward and Reverse Ion-scale Flux Ropes in the Plasma Sheet: Evidence for Turbulent Reconnection? (676220)
James A Slavin1, Wei-Jie Sun2, Qiang Hu3, Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti2, Dogacan Su Ozturk4,5, Charles Bowers1, Gangkai Poh6, Guan Le7, San Lu8, Daniel J Gershman7, Barbara L Giles7 and James L Burch9, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Department of Space Science, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, AOSS, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (9)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States
04:24
Particle simulations of magnetotail dynamics guided by empirical reconstruction of substorms with data-mining algorithms: Steady and unsteady reconnection regimes (674952)
Mikhail I. Sitnov, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, Tetsuo Motoba, JHU/APL, Laurel, MD, United States, Grant Killian Stephens, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, Viacheslav G Merkin, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD, United States and Marc Swisdak, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
04:28
On the Micro-Macro Coupling of Mass Loading Magnetic Reconnection with Cold Ions (695760)
Susanne Flø Spinnangr, Michael Hesse, Paul Tenfjord, Cecilia Norgren, Hakon Kolsto, Norah Kaggwa Kwagala and Therese Moretto, University of Bergen, Space Plasma Physics Group, Bergen, Norway
04:32
Discussion