SM020
Magnetic Reconnection: Connecting Ideas from Observations, Experiments, Models, and Theory V Posters

Thursday, 10 December 2020: 04:00-20:59
Poster
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:  Michael Hesse, University of Bergen, Space Plasma Physics Group, Bergen, Norway and Jongsoo Yoo, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Jongsoo Yoo, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
The onset of reconnection in Earth’s magnetotail: simultaneous observations from Magnetospheric Multiscale and the Heliophysics System Observatory (671960)
Kevin James Genestreti1, Charles J Farrugia2, San Lu3, Tai Phan4, Daniel N Baker5, Trevor W Leonard6, Sarah K. Vines7, Ian J. Cohen8, Sam Bingham9,10, Jason R Shuster11,12, Daniel J Gershman12, Christopher Mouikis13, Anthony J Rogers14, James Burch1, Roy B Torbert13,15, Barbara L Giles12, Robert Ergun16, Narges Ahmadi16, Christopher T Russell17, Robert J Strangeway18 and Rumi Nakamura19, (1)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Durham, NH, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (5)University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (7)University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (8)The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (9)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, (Deceased during the planning stages of the session), Laurel, MD, United States, (10)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (11)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (12)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (13)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (14)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Physics, Durham, NH, United States, (15)Southwest Research Institute Durham, Durham, NH, United States, (16)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (17)University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (18)Univ California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (19)Space Research Institute, Graz, Austria
 
Visualizing the Particle Dynamics Associated with Ordered Phase Space Structures within the Diffusion Region of Magnetic Reconnection (674948)
Dominic Payne, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, Kai Germaschewski, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States and Roy B Torbert, Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
 
Power-law formation of nonthermal electrons in 3D low-beta reconnection (678410)
Xiaocan Li1, Fan Guo2, Hui Li2, Adam Stanier3, Patrick Kilian4 and Yi-Hsin Liu1, (1)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, United States
 
On the Electron Diffusion Region in Asymmetric Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection (680464)
Michael Hesse1, Cecilia Norgren2, Paul Tenfjord2, James L Burch3, Yi-Hsin Liu4, Cecilia Norgren5,6,7, Naoki Bessho8, Hakon Kolsto2, Susanne Flø Spinnangr2, Therese Moretto1, Norah Kaggwa Kwagala2 and Robert Ergun9, (1)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (2)University of Bergen, Space Plasma Physics Group, Bergen, Norway, (3)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (4)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, (5)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (6)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (7)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (9)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Using kinetic entropy to identify regions with adiabatic or non-adiabatic processes in antiparallel reconnection (684597)
Mahmud Hasan Barbhuiya, West Virginia University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Morgantown, WV, United States, Haoming Liang, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, Huntsville, AL, United States, Paul Cassak, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States, Marc Swisdak, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States and Vadim Roytershteyn, Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Scaling theory of magnetic reconnection spreading (701740)
Milton Arencibia1, Paul Cassak1, Haoming Liang1, Michael Shay2, Qiu Jiong3 and Eric R Priest4, (1)West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States, (2)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (3)Montana State University Bozeman, Bozeman, MT, United States, (4)University of Saint Andrews, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Saint Andrews, United Kingdom
 
Secondary magnetic reconnection at Earth's flank magnetopause (714384)
Binbin Tang1, Wenya Li2, Chi Wang3, Yuri Khotyaintsev4, Daniel Graham5, Qing-He Zhang6, Tianran Sun2, Hui Li2, Barbara L Giles7, Per-Arne Lindqvist8, Robert Ergun9, Christopher T Russell10 and James L Burch11, (1)NSSC National Space Science Center, CAS, SKL of Space Weather, Beijing, China, (2)NSSC National Space Science Center, CAS, Beijing, China, (3)CSSAR, CAS, Beijing, China, (4)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden, (5)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (6)Institute of Space Sciences, Shandong University, Weihai, China, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (9)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (11)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States
 
On the Impact of a Streaming Oxygen Population on Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection (730621)
Hakon Kolsto1, Michael Hesse1, Cecilia Norgren1, Susanne Flø Spinnangr1, Paul Tenfjord1 and Norah Kaggwa Kwagala2, (1)University of Bergen, Space Plasma Physics Group, Bergen, Norway, (2)Beavercreek, VA, United States
 
Slow-mode shocks and Their Role in the Symmetric Magnetic Reconnection Based on 2.5D Hybrid Simulations (731692)
Nehpreet Kaur Walia, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, Kanako Seki, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan and Takanobu Amano, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
 
Studying the current sheet structure close to a reconnection point with MMS observations (733713)
Diana Ivett Rojas-Castillo, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, Rumi Nakamura, Space Reserach Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, Evgeny V Panov, Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, Victor A Sergeev, St Petersburg State Univ, St Petersburg, Russia and Takuma K. M. Nakamura, Space Research Institute, Austrian Acadmy of Sciences, Graz, Austria
 
The Dependence of Poynting Flux and Ion Heating on the Presence of O+ Ions in Dayside and Tail Reconnection (742502)
Evan Tyler, College of Saint Scholastica, Duluth, MN, United States, Cynthia A Cattell, University of Minnesota, School of Physics and Astronomy, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Ian J. Cohen, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, Stephen A Fuselier, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, Lynn M Kistler, Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, Elena A Kronberg, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Gottingen, Germany, Chris Mouikis, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Physics, Durham, United States, Marit Oieroset, Univ California, Berkeley, CA, United States and Tai Phan, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
 
Instabilities Associated with Electron-Scale X-line Evolution (743638)
James Webster1, James Burch2, Patricia H Reiff3, Kevin James Genestreti4, Richard Eugene Denton5, Roy B Torbert6, Hiroshi Hasegawa7, Kyoung-Joo Hwang2, Kyunghwan Dokgo2, Sanni Hoilijoki8, Andrew Marshall3, Wenya Li9 and Stanislav Y Sazykin10, (1)Rice University, Physics, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (3)Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, (4)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (5)Dartmouth College, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hanover, NH, United States, (6)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (7)JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Sagamihara, Japan, (8)Finnish Meteorological Inst, Helsinki, Finland, (9)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (10)Rice University, Physics and Astronomy Department, Houston, TX, United States
 
Reconnection Rates at the Dayside Magnetopause (748578)
Kristina Renee Pritchard1, James L Burch2, Kevin James Genestreti2, Stephen A Fuselier3, James Webster2, Roy B Torbert4, Robert Ergun5, Barbara L Giles6 and Christopher T Russell7, (1)University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (4)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (5)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Wave Activity in a Reconnection Current Sheet near an X-Line on the Dayside Magnetopause (748799)
Andrew Marshall1, James L Burch2, Patricia H Reiff1, James Webster1, Richard Eugene Denton3 and Matthew R Argall4, (1)Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (3)Dartmouth College, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hanover, NH, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
 
CCMC Modeling of MMS Dayside Reconnection Events (755154)
Patricia H Reiff1, Lutz Rastaetter2, James Webster3, Andrew Marshall1 and Alex Glocer4, (1)Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (4)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Perpendicular electron acceleration by the lower-hybrid drift instability (758261)
Jonathan Ng, University of Maryland College Park; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, College Park, MD, United States, Li J Chen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Shan Wang, Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States and Naoki Bessho, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
 
On the short-scale spatial variability of electron inflows in electron-only magnetic reconnection in the turbulent magnetosheath observed by MMS (762887)
Prayash Sharma Pyakurel1, Tai Phan2, Michael A Shay3, James L Burch4, Daniel J Gershman5, Barbara L Giles5, Roy B Torbert6, Robert Ergun7, Robert J Strangeway8 and Christopher T Russell9, (1)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, DE, United States, (2)Univ California, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (4)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (7)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)Univ California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (9)University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
The topology of the subsolar magnetopause under northward IMF conditions: Global simulations and MMS observations (770810)
John Dorelli, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Natalia Buzulukova, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Daniel J Gershman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Alex Glocer, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Robert Ergun, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, Robert J Strangeway, Univ California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Roy B Torbert, Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States and James L Burch, Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States
 
Self-Consistent Calculation of the Magnetic Field Reversal (771242)
Jonathan Sullivan-Wood, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, United States and Daniel L Holland, Illinois State Univ, Physics, Normal, IL, United States