SH031
Turbulence, magnetic reconnection, and particle energization throughout heliosphere

Session ID#: 159323

Session Description:
Turbulence, magnetic reconnection, particle heating and acceleration are interconnected phenomena playing a fundamental role in space plasma as well as in a variety of other astrophysical plasmas.  Turbulent dynamics may be responsible for the formation of magnetic structures and current sheets. Reconnection events triggered in current sheets may in turn affect turbulence at small scales. Both reconnection and turbulence lead to plasma heating and particle acceleration.  This session invites contributions from observational, numerical, analytical, and laboratory studies elucidating 1) how processes of turbulence, reconnection, and wave-particle interactions are connected to each other throughout the heliosphere and 2) how they are affected by or influence the dynamics of the environment. We encourage contributions addressing these processes in various plasma regimes (such as low and high plasma beta, balanced and imbalanced turbulence cascades, hydrodynamics and kinetic scales, weak and strong plasma turbulence) and in various environments (solar corona, solar wind, earth magnetosphere).
Index Terms:

7526 Magnetic reconnection [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7829 Kinetic waves and instabilities [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
7846 Plasma energization [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
7863 Turbulence [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]

Primary Convener:  Stas Boldyrev, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
Conveners:  Vadim Roytershteyn, Space Science Institute, Boulder, NM, United States, Nuno Loureiro, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Cambridge, MA, United States and Christopher H K Chen, Queen Mary University of London, School of Physics and Astronomy, London, United Kingdom
 
Generalized Theory of Weak Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence (1052099)
Peter H Yoon, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States
 
Intermittency and electron heating in kinetic-Alfvén-wave turbulence (Invited) (1055332)
Muni Zhou, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Cambridge, MA, United States, Zhuo Liu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Cambridge, United States and Nuno Loureiro, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
The Role of 3D Complexity in Magnetic Reconnection (1066826)
James A Klimchuk, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Lars K. S. Daldorff, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States and James Edward Leake, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, United States
 
Extended active magnetic reconnection X-lines in three-dimensional kinetic turbulence (1074079)
Tak Chu Li1, Yi-Hsin Liu1, Yi Qi2 and Muni Zhou3, (1)Dartmouth College, Hanover, United States, (2)University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (3)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
Influence of MHD Turbulence on Ion Kappa Distributions in the Earth’s Plasma Sheet as a Function of Plasma Beta Parameter (1075566)
Adetayo Victor Eyelade1, Cristobal Espinoza1, Marina V Stepanova1, Elizabeth E Antonova2, Ilya Ovchinnikov2 and Igor P Kirpichev3, (1)University of Santiago Chile, Santiago, Chile, (2)Lomonosov Moscow State University, Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP MSU), Moscow, Russia, (3)Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia, Moscow, Russia
 
Kinetic-scale Current Sheets in the Solar Wind: Properties, Origin and Reconnection Onset (Invited) (1077313)
Ivan Vasko, Space Science Lab, UC berkeley, Berkeley, United States, Ajay Bhanudas Lotekar, Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, Navi Mumbai, India, Tai D. Phan, SSL, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, Stuart D Bale, University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Forrest Mozer, University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Anton Artemyev, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
 
Entangled magnetic flux ropes in the terristrial mangetic sheath (1078648)
Ying-Dong Jia1, Yi Qi2, Nathan D Miles3, Hanying Wei1 and Christopher T Russell1, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States
 
Magnetic flux transport identification of magnetic reconnection in Earth’s magnetosphere: current sheets and entangled flux ropes (1082150)
Yi Qi, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, Tak Chu Li, Dartmouth College, Hanover, United States, Christopher T Russell, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Robert Ergun, Univ Colorado, Boulder, United States, Stefan Eriksson, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and Ying-Dong Jia, UCLA-IGPP, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Role of Turbulence and Reconnection in Dissipation in Plasmas (1089207)
Sohom Roy1, Riddhi Bandyopadhyay2, William H Matthaeus3, Alexandros Chasapis4, Yan Yang5, Tulasi Parashar6, Subash Adhikari3, Michael A Shay7, Colby C Haggerty8,9, Daniel J Gershman10, Barbara L Giles10 and James Burch11, (1)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (2)Princeton University, Department of Astrophysics, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States, (4)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of Delaware, Physics and Astronomy, Newark, United States, (6)Victoria University of Wellington, Wellingon, New Zealand, (7)Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, United States, (8)University of Chicago, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Chicago, IL, United States, (9)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Astronomy, Honolulu, United States, (10)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (11)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
 
Characteristics of Multi-Scale Current Sheets in the Solar Wind at 1 AU Associated with Magnetic Reconnection and the Case for a Cascading Heliospheric Current Sheet (1089276)
Stefan Eriksson, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, Marc Swisdak, University of Maryland, College Park, United States, James M Weygand, IGPP/UCLA---ESS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Alfred Mallet, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, David Newman, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States, Giovanni Lapenta, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Department of Mathematics, Leuven, Belgium, Lynn B Wilson III, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Drew L. Turner, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States and Bjorn Larsen, University of Connecticut, Department of Physics, Storrs, United States
 
Frequency-resolved local measurements of phase-space energization (1095829)
Emily Rose Lichko, University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, United States, Jimmy Juno, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States; Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, Sarah A Horvath Conley, University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, Gregory G Howes, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, Mel Abler, Space Science Institute, Boulder, United States and Kristopher G. Klein, University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
Hybrid Simulations of Reconnecting Current Sheet Generation and Decay at and Downstream of Earth’s Bow Shock (1104409)
Imogen Gingell1, Steven J Schwartz2, Harald Kucharek3, Laura J Fryer1, Charles J Farrugia4 and Karlheinz J Trattner5, (1)University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (2)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, (3)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (5)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Numerical Modeling of Alfvén Wave Parametric Instabilities in a Laboratory Plasma (1107534)
Feiyu Li1, Xiangrong Fu1 and Seth E Dorfman2, (1)New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, United States, (2)Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, United States
 
On the Effect of Driving Turbulence on Magnetic Reconnection: A Particle-In-Cell Simulation Study (1109014)
Jeffersson Andres Agudelo Rueda and Yi-Hsin Liu, Dartmouth College, Physics and Astronomy, Hanover, United States
 
Anomalous diffusion, entropy cascade, and stochastic heating in a solvable model of nearly collisionless plasma turbulence (1130453)
Michael L Nastac1, Robert J. Ewart1, Wrick Sengupta2, Alexander A Schekochihin1, Michael Barnes1 and William Dorland3, (1)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, (2)Princeton University, Princeton, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
 
The Evolution of the Magnetic Field Spectral Index with Heliocentric Distance in the Solar Wind (1131398)
Jack McIntyre and Christopher H K Chen, Queen Mary University of London, School of Physics and Astronomy, London, United Kingdom
 
Studying Effects of Coulomb Collisions on the Temperature of Solar Wind Electrons Using Cylindrical VPIC Simulations (1135101)
Harsha Gurram1,2, Jan Egedal2, Stas Boldyrev2 and Adam Stanier3, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Leveraging a 10-Moment, Multi-Fluid Solver to Investigate Pressure Anisotropy-Driven Instabilities (1135281)
Jada Walters, University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, AZ, United States, Kristopher G Klein, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Jimmy Juno, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, Jason M TenBarge, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States and Emily Rose Lichko, University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, United States
 
Electron acceleration and heating in magnetic reconnection in the transition region of the Earth’s bow shock (1137056)
Naoki Bessho1,2, Li-Jen Chen2, Julia E Stawarz3, Shan Wang1,2, Michael Hesse4, Lynn B Wilson III2 and Jonathan Ng5, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)Imperial College London, Space and Atmospheric Physics, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (4)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, (5)University of Maryland College Park; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, College Park, United States
 
Collisionless Equilibration Process of Current Sheets and Implications for Current Sheet Statistics (1140577)
Young Dae Yoon, Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, UNITED STATES, Deirdre E Wendel, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, James Burch, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States and Gunsu S. Yun, POSTECH, Pohang, South Korea
 
The Kinetic Role of Shear Flow on Magnetic Reconnection (1151107)
Colby C Haggerty, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Astronomy, Honolulu, United States, Michael A Shay, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, United States and Tai D. Phan, SSL, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
 
Measuring the Alfvén wave Parametric Decay Instability Growth Rate in the Laboratory (1164678)
Seth E Dorfman1, Feiyu Li2, Xiangrong Fu2, Stephen T Vincena3, Troy A Carter3 and Patrick Pribyl3, (1)Space Science Institute, Boulder, United States, (2)New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Flare Ribbon Signatures of Reconnection Plasmoids (1176164)
Joel Dahlin, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Spiro K Antiochos, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, United States, C Richard DeVore, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Jiong Qiu, Montana State University, Department of Physics, Bozeman, MT, United States and Peter Fraser Wyper, University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom
 
Numerical Study of Kinetic-Scale Plasma Turbulence with Low Electron Beta (1176329)
Cristian Vega, University of Wisconsin Madison, Physics, Madison, WI, United States, Vadim Roytershteyn, Space Science Institute, Boulder, NM, United States, Gian Luca Delzanno, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Stas Boldyrev, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
 
Linear tearing instability in resistive-MHD current sheet: guide field, normal magnetic field, and plasma flow (1177118)
Chen Shi, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Anton Artemyev, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, Marco C M Velli, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, United States and Anna Tenerani, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States
 
Do Chaotic Field Lines Cause Fast Reconnecton in Coronal Loops? (1183767)
Yi-Min Huang and Amitava Bhattacharjee, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
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