Reconnection, Shocks, Jets, and Other Astrophysical Topics

Presentations

• Relativistic Nonthermal Particle Acceleration in Plasmoid-Mediated Magnetic Reconnection

  ORAL

  Nov. 6, 2018, 2:00 PM – Nov. 6, 2018, 2:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Dmitri A Uzdensky

    • Univ of Colorado - Boulder

  Authors

  • Dmitri A Uzdensky

    • Univ of Colorado - Boulder

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• Time Resolved Measurements of Electron Acceleration in Pulsed Power Driven Magnetic Reconnection

  ORAL

  Nov. 6, 2018, 2:12 PM – Nov. 6, 2018, 2:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Jack WD Halliday

    • Imperial College London
    • Imperial College London, Multi-university Center for Pulsed Power-Driven High Energy Science

  Authors

  • Jack WD Halliday

    • Imperial College London
    • Imperial College London, Multi-university Center for Pulsed Power-Driven High Energy Science

  • Jack Davies Hare

    • Imperial College London
    • Imperial College London, Multi-university Center for Pulsed Power-Driven High Energy Science
    • Imperial College London, Imperial College London

  • Lee G. Suttle

    • Imperial College London
    • Imperial College London, Multi-university Center for Pulsed Power-Driven High Energy Science

  • Sergey V Lebedev

    • Imperial College London
    • Imperial College London, Multi-university Center for Pulsed Power-Driven High Energy Science

  • Simon N Bland

    • Blackett Lab
    • Imperial College London, Multi-university Center for Pulsed Power-Driven High Energy Science
    • Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, Multi-university Center for Pulsed Power-Driven High Energy Science

  • Eleanor R Tubman

    • Imperial College London
    • Imperial College London, Multi-university Center for Pulsed Power-Driven High Energy Science

  • Daniel R. Russell

    • Imperial College London
    • Imperial College London, Multi-university Center for Pulsed Power-Driven High Energy Science

  • Francisco Suzuki-Vidal

    • Imperial College London
    • Imperial College London, Multi-university Center for Pulsed Power-Driven High Energy Science

  • Sergey A. Pikuz

    • Lebedev Physical Institute, Cornell University
    • Cornell University , Lebedev Institute

  • Tania A. Shelkovenko

    • Cornell University, Lebedev Institute

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• Relativistic Reconnection with Inverse Compton Radiaction

  ORAL

  Nov. 6, 2018, 2:24 PM – Nov. 6, 2018, 2:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Gregory R Werner

    • Univ of Colorado - Boulder

  Authors

  • Gregory R Werner

    • Univ of Colorado - Boulder

  • Alexander A Philippov

    • University of California Berkeley

  • Dmitri A Uzdensky

    • Univ of Colorado - Boulder

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• Endogenous Magnetic Reconnection and Associated Processes in Weakly Collisional Regimes

  ORAL

  Nov. 6, 2018, 2:36 PM – Nov. 6, 2018, 2:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Bamandas Basu

    • MIT

  Authors

  • Bamandas Basu

    • MIT

  • Cristina Mazzotta

    • MIT
    • Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, MIT
    • CNR, Italy
    • MIT, CNR, Italy
    • MIT, CNR
    • Università la Sapienza, Italy
    • ENEA, Italy

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• Magnetic island merger as a mechanism for inverse magnetic energy transfer

  ORAL

  Nov. 6, 2018, 2:48 PM – Nov. 6, 2018, 3:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Muni Zhou

    • Massachusetts Inst of Tech-MIT

  Authors

  • Muni Zhou

    • Massachusetts Inst of Tech-MIT

  • Pallavi Bhat

    • Massachusetts Inst of Tech-MIT

  • Nuno F Loureiro

    • Massachusetts Inst of Tech-MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Plasma Science and Fusion Center, MIT, Cambridge, USA

  • Dmitri A Uzdensky

    • Univ of Colorado - Boulder

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• Anomalous resistivity generated by lower hybrid drift waves in the current sheet of a laboratory plasma in the presence of a guide field

  ORAL

  Nov. 6, 2018, 3:00 PM – Nov. 6, 2018, 3:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Jongsoo Yoo

    • Princeton Plasma Phys Lab
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
    • PPPL
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Lab

  Authors

  • Jongsoo Yoo

    • Princeton Plasma Phys Lab
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
    • PPPL
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Lab

  • Xuehan Guo

    • Tokyo University
    • University of Tokyo

  • Hantao Ji

    • Princeton Univ, Princeton Plasma Phys Lab
    • Princeton Univ
    • Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
    • Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Phys Lab
    • Princeton University
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Lab

  • Masaaki Yamada

    • Princeton Plasma Phys Lab
    • PPPL

  • Jonathan Marc Jara-Almonte

    • Princeton Plasma Phys Lab
    • Princeton Univ
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Will Randolph Fox

    • Princeton University
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Lab
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University
    • Princeton Plasma Phys Lab
    • Princeton Plasma Phys Lab, Princeton Univ
    • PPPL

  • Fulvia Pucci

    • National Institute for Fusion Science

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• Extracting the reconnection electric field from electron distribution functions

  ORAL

  Nov. 6, 2018, 3:12 PM – Nov. 6, 2018, 3:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Naoki Bessho

    • Univ of Maryland-College Park, NASA/GSFC
    • Univ of Maryland-College Park, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
    • Univ of Maryland-College Park

  Authors

  • Naoki Bessho

    • Univ of Maryland-College Park, NASA/GSFC
    • Univ of Maryland-College Park, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
    • Univ of Maryland-College Park

  • Li-Jen Chen

    • NASA Goddard
    • Univ of Maryland-College Park, NASA/GSFC
    • NASA GSFC
    • Univ of Maryland-College Park, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
    • Goddard Space Flight Center

  • Shan Wang

    • Univ of Maryland-College Park, NASA/GSFC
    • UMD/NASA GSFC
    • Univ of Maryland-College Park, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
    • Goddard Space Flight Center
    • Univ of Maryland-College Park

  • Michael Hesse

    • University of Bergen

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• Suppression of Inverse Compton Radiation from Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection by Seed Photon Anisotropy

  ORAL

  Nov. 6, 2018, 3:24 PM – Nov. 6, 2018, 3:36 PM

  Presenters

  • John M. Mehlhaff

    • Univ of Colorado - Boulder

  Authors

  • John M. Mehlhaff

    • Univ of Colorado - Boulder

  • Gregory R Werner

    • Univ of Colorado - Boulder

  • Dmitri A Uzdensky

    • Univ of Colorado - Boulder

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• Kinetic simulations of magnetic reconnection: from collisionless to collisional regimes

  ORAL

  Nov. 6, 2018, 3:36 PM – Nov. 6, 2018, 3:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Samuel R Totorica

    • Stanford University

  Authors

  • Samuel R Totorica

    • Stanford University

  • Tom Abel

    • Stanford University

  • Frederico Fiuza

    • SLAC - Natl Accelerator Lab
    • SLAC National Acceleratory Laboratory

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• Triggering QED processes by reconnection in near critical magnetic fields

  ORAL

  Nov. 6, 2018, 3:48 PM – Nov. 6, 2018, 4:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Kevin Schoeffler

    • Inst Superior Tecnico (IST)

  Authors

  • Kevin Schoeffler

    • Inst Superior Tecnico (IST)

  • Thomas E Grismayer

    • Inst Superior Tecnico (IST)
    • GoLP/IPFN, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal
    • GoLP/IPFN – Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
    • Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST)
    • GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusao Nuclear, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

  • Dmitri A Uzdensky

    • Univ of Colorado - Boulder

  • Ricardo Fonseca

    • ISCTE - Inst Universitario Lisboa
    • ISCTE - Inst Universitário Lisboa
    • ISCTE - Inst Universitario LIsboa , Inst Superior Tecnico (IST)
    • ISCTE - Inst Universitario Lisboa , GoLP/IPFN Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
    • ISCTE - Inst Universitario Lisboa , GoLP/IPFN, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal
    • ISCTE - Inst Universitario Lisboa , Inst Superior Tecnico (IST)
    • Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Lisbon, Portugal, GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusao Nuclear, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portug

  • Luis O Silva

    • Inst Superior Tecnico (IST)
    • Instituto Superior Técnico (IST)
    • GoLP/IPFN, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal, GoLP/IPFN, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal
    • GoLP/IPFN, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal
    • GoLP/IPFN – Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
    • Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST)
    • GoLP/IPFN Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
    • GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusao Nuclear, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

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• Multi-plasmoid magnetic reconnection initiated by kinetic instabilities in colliding laser-produced plasmas

  ORAL

  Nov. 6, 2018, 4:00 PM – Nov. 6, 2018, 4:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Will Randolph Fox

    • Princeton University
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Lab
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University
    • Princeton Plasma Phys Lab
    • Princeton Plasma Phys Lab, Princeton Univ
    • PPPL

  Authors

  • Will Randolph Fox

    • Princeton University
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Lab
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University
    • Princeton Plasma Phys Lab
    • Princeton Plasma Phys Lab, Princeton Univ
    • PPPL

  • Gennady Fiksel

    • Univ of Michigan - Ann Arbor

  • Daniel J Haberberger

    • University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics
    • Univ of Rochester LLE
    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics
    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester
    • Univ of Rochester

  • Derek Schaeffer

    • Princeton Univ, Univ of California - Los Angeles
    • University of California, Los Angeles
    • Princeton University
    • Princeton Univ

  • Jackson VH Matteucci

    • Princeton University
    • Princeton Plasma Phys Lab
    • Princeton Univ

  • Michael J Rosenberg

    • University of Rochester
    • Univ of Rochester
    • Univ of Rochester LLE
    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester
    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics
    • Lab for Laser Energetics

  • S. X. Hu

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester
    • University of Rochester
    • Univ of Rochester
    • Univ of Rochester LLE
    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics
    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester

  • Andrew Howard

    • University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics
    • Univ of Rochester LLE

  • Dmitri A Uzdensky

    • Univ of Colorado - Boulder

  • Hye-Sook Park

    • Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab
    • Lawrence Livermore National Lab
    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Kirill Lezhnin

    • Princeton University
    • Princeton Univ

  • Amitava Bhattacharjee

    • Princeton University
    • Princeton Univ
    • Princeton Univ, Princeton Plasma Phys Lab
    • Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
    • Princeton Univ, LANL, PPPL, UC-Berkeley, UCLA and UW-Madison

  • Kai Germaschewski

    • University of New Hampshire
    • Princeton Plasma Phys Lab

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• Investigation of ion heating/transport process during high guide field reconnection using full-2D ultra high resolution ion Doppler tomography

  ORAL

  Nov. 6, 2018, 4:12 PM – Nov. 6, 2018, 4:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Hiroshi Tanabe

    • Univ of Tokyo
    • Graduate school of frontier sciences, university of Tokyo

  Authors

  • Hiroshi Tanabe

    • Univ of Tokyo
    • Graduate school of frontier sciences, university of Tokyo

  • Qinghong Cao

    • Univ of Tokyo
    • Graduate school of frontier sciences, university of Tokyo

  • Moe Akimitsu

    • Univ of Tokyo
    • Graduate school of frontier sciences, university of Tokyo

  • Asuka Sawada

    • Univ of Tokyo
    • Graduate school of frontier sciences, university of Tokyo

  • Haruaki Tanaka

    • Graduate school of frontier sciences, university of Tokyo

  • Shun Kamiya

    • Graduate school of frontier sciences, university of Tokyo

  • Setthivoine You

    • Graduate school of frontier sciences, university of Tokyo

  • Michiaki Inomoto

    • The University of Tokyo, The University of Tokyo
    • Graduate school of frontier sciences, university of Tokyo

  • Yasushi Ono

    • Univ of Tokyo
    • Graduate school of frontier sciences, university of Tokyo

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• Finite collisional age effects on electrostatic shocks

  ORAL

  Nov. 6, 2018, 4:24 PM – Nov. 6, 2018, 4:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Istvan Pusztai

    • Chalmers University of Technology

  Authors

  • Istvan Pusztai

    • Chalmers University of Technology

  • Andréas Sundström

    • Chalmers University of Technology

  • Ian Abel

    • Chalmers University of Technology
    • Chalmers University of Technology, University of Maryland

  • James L. Juno

    • Univ of Maryland-College Park

  • Jason M TenBarge

    • Princeton Univ
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Ammar Hakim

    • Princeton Plasma Phys Lab
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

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• Plasma dynamics of laser produced annular plasmas expanding in neutral gas backgrounds

  ORAL

  Nov. 6, 2018, 4:36 PM – Nov. 6, 2018, 4:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Mario Favre

    • Pontif Univ Catolica de Chile

  Authors

  • Mario Favre

    • Pontif Univ Catolica de Chile

  • Vicente Valenzuela-Villaseca

    • Pontif Univ Catolica de Chile, Imperial College London
    • Pontif Univ Catolica de Chile

  • Wilmer Useche

    • Pontif Univ Catolica de Chile

  • Felipe Veloso

    • Pontif Univ Catolica de Chile

  • Edmund Wyndham

    • Pontif Univ Catolica de Chile

  • Heman Bhuyan

    • Pontif Univ Catolica de Chile

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• e^- e⁺ plasma-dark electromagnetism similarity establishes a (nearly) weaker-than-gravity bound on long-range dark matter self-interactions

  ORAL

  Nov. 6, 2018, 4:48 PM – Nov. 6, 2018, 5:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Nitin Shukla

    • Inst Superior Tecnico (IST)

  Authors

  • Nitin Shukla

    • Inst Superior Tecnico (IST)

  • Kevin Schoeffler

    • Inst Superior Tecnico (IST)

  • Jorge M Vieira

    • ISCTE - Inst Universitario Lisboa
    • Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal
    • GoLP/Instituto Superior Tecnico
    • Inst Superior Tecnico (IST)
    • GoLP/IPFN Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
    • Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear-Laboratório Associado
    • Inst Superior Tecnico (IST), Inst Superior Tecnico (IST)

  • Jeremy Mardon

    • Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305

  • Brain Feldstein

    • Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, 1 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3NP UK

  • Ricardo Fonseca

    • ISCTE - Inst Universitario Lisboa
    • ISCTE - Inst Universitário Lisboa
    • ISCTE - Inst Universitario LIsboa , Inst Superior Tecnico (IST)
    • ISCTE - Inst Universitario Lisboa , GoLP/IPFN Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
    • ISCTE - Inst Universitario Lisboa , GoLP/IPFN, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal
    • ISCTE - Inst Universitario Lisboa , Inst Superior Tecnico (IST)
    • Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Lisbon, Portugal, GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusao Nuclear, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portug

  • Luis O Silva

    • Inst Superior Tecnico (IST)
    • Instituto Superior Técnico (IST)
    • GoLP/IPFN, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal, GoLP/IPFN, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal
    • GoLP/IPFN, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal
    • GoLP/IPFN – Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
    • Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST)
    • GoLP/IPFN Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
    • GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusao Nuclear, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

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