Astrophysical and Space Plasmas

Presentations

• Dimensionless, Rare, Single Spacecraft, Scalar, Observable Properties of the Electron Diffusion Region of Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection

  ORAL

  Nov. 21, 2008, 8:45 AM – Nov. 21, 2008, 8:57 AM

  Authors

  • Jack Scudder

    • University of Iowa

  • William Daughton

    • LANL
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

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• Magnetic Turbulence Cascade and Electron Heating in Relativistic Plasmas

  ORAL

  Nov. 21, 2008, 8:57 AM – Nov. 21, 2008, 9:09 AM

  Authors

  • Edison Liang

    • Rice University

  • Guy Hilburn

    • Rice University

  • Hui Li

    • LANL
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos National Lab

  • Siming Liu

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

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• 3D Simulations of Turbulent Spectra in Compressible Hall-MHD Plasmas

  ORAL

  Nov. 21, 2008, 9:09 AM – Nov. 21, 2008, 9:21 AM

  Authors

  • Dastgeer Shaikh

    • Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomy Research The University of Alabama in Huntsville Huntsville, AL-35899

  • P.K. Shukla

    • Fakult\"at f\"ur Physik und Astronomie, Institut f\"ur Theoretische Physik IV, Ruhr-Universit\"at Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
    • Fakult\"at f\"ur Physik und Astronomie, Institut f\"ur Theoretische Physik IV, Ruhr-Universit\"at Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany.

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• A paradigmatic flow for small-scale MHD and the collision of current sheets

  ORAL

  Nov. 21, 2008, 9:21 AM – Nov. 21, 2008, 9:33 AM

  Authors

  • Annick Pouquet

    • National Center for Atmospheric Research

  • Ed Lee

    • NCAR

  • Pablo Mininni

    • Universidad de Buenos Aires

  • Marc-Etienne Brachet

    • ENS, Paris

  • Duane Rosenberg

    • NCAR

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• Large-Scale 2D and 3D Simulations of Plasma Turbulence in the Lower Ionosphere

  ORAL

  Nov. 21, 2008, 9:33 AM – Nov. 21, 2008, 9:45 AM

  Authors

  • Y.S. Dimant

  • M.M. Oppenheim

    • Center for Space Physics, Boston University

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• Physics of the Alfv\'{e}nic Aurora

  ORAL

  Nov. 21, 2008, 9:45 AM – Nov. 21, 2008, 9:57 AM

  Authors

  • Robert Lysak

    • University of Minnesota

  • Yan Song

    • University of Minnesota

  • Jesse Woodroffe

    • University of Minnesota

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• Breakdown of the Frozen-in condition and Plasma Energization in Cosmic Plasmas

  ORAL

  Nov. 21, 2008, 9:57 AM – Nov. 21, 2008, 10:09 AM

  Authors

  • Yan Song

    • University of Minnesota

  • Robert Lysak

    • University of Minnesota

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• Kinetic modeling of particle kinetics close to low orbit satellites

  ORAL

  Nov. 21, 2008, 10:09 AM – Nov. 21, 2008, 10:21 AM

  Authors

  • Richard Marchand

    • University of Alberta

  • Jean-Jacques Berthelier

    • CETP, CNRS

  • D.J. Knudsen

    • University of Calgary

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• Triggering, nonlinear amplification and absolute instability of whisters of whistlers

  ORAL

  Nov. 21, 2008, 10:21 AM – Nov. 21, 2008, 10:33 AM

  Authors

  • Martin Lampe

    • Naval Research Laboratory

  • Gurudas Ganguli

    • Naval Research Laboratory

  • Glenn Joyce

  • Wallace Manheimer

    • Retired from Naval Research Laboratory
    • University of Maryland
    • RSI, Landover, MD

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• A Dynamic Model of the Radiation-Belt Electron Phase Space Density driven by the Inner-Magnetospheric ULF Wave Activity

  ORAL

  Nov. 21, 2008, 10:33 AM – Nov. 21, 2008, 10:45 AM

  Authors

  • Dimitris Vassiliadis

    • West Virginia University

  • Mark Koepke

    • West Virginia University

  • Mattias Tornquist

    • West Virginia University

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• nMHDust: A 4-Fluid Partially Ionized Dusty Plasma Code

  ORAL

  Nov. 21, 2008, 10:45 AM – Nov. 21, 2008, 10:57 AM

  Authors

  • Samuel Lazerson

    • Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks

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