Space and Astrophysical Plasmas I

INVITED · GI02 · ID: 1740012

Presentations

  • Advances in the Study of Collisionless Plasma Turbulence in the Era of NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission

    ORAL · Invited

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    Publication: Stawarz et al. (2019) "Properties of the turbulence associated with electron-only magnetic reconnection in Earth's magnetosheath", Astrophys. J. Lett., 877, L37.

    Stawarz et al. (2021) "Comparative analysis of the various generalized Ohm's law terms in magnetosheath turbulence as observed by magnetospheric multiscale", J. Geophys. Res., 126, e8447.

    Stawarz et al. (2022) "Turbulence-driven magnetic reconnection and the magnetic correlation length: Observations from Magnetospheric Multiscale in Earth's magnetosheath", Physics of Plasmas, 29, 012302.

    Lewis et al. (2023) "Magnetospheric Multiscale Measurements of Turbulent Electric Fields in Earth's Magnetosheath: How do Plasma Conditions Influence the Balance of Terms in Generalized Ohm's Law?", Physics of Plasmas, submitted.

    Presenters

    • Julia Stawarz

      Northumbria university, Northumbria University

    Authors

    • Julia Stawarz

      Northumbria university, Northumbria University

    • Harry C Lewis

      Imperial College London

    • Luca Franci

      Iperial College London

    • Lorenzo Matteini

      Imperial College London

    • Kristopher G Klein

      University of Arizona

    • Chadi Salem

      University of California Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory

    • Jonathan P Eastwood

      Imperial College London

    • Tai Phan

      Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley, University of California Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley,

    • Imogen Gingell

      University of Southampton

    • Prayash Sharma Pyakurel

      University of California, Berkeley, University of California Berkeley

    • Michael A Shay

      University of Delaware

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  • Electron-only Magnetic Reconnection: Observations and Simulations

    ORAL · Invited

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    Publication: Pyakurel, P. S., Shay, M. A., Phan, T. D., Matthaeus, W. H., Drake, J. F., TenBarge, J. M., Haggerty, C. C., K. Klein, and Cassak, P. A., Parashar, T. N., Swisdak, M., and Chasapis, A. (2019). Transition from ion-coupled to electron-only reconnection: Basic physics and implications for plasma turbulence. Physics of Plasmas.

    Pyakurel, P. S., Shay, M. A., Drake, J. F., Phan, T. D., Cassak, P. A., & Verniero, J. L. (2021), Phys. Rev. Lett., Faster Form of Electron Magnetic Reconnection with a Finite Length X-Line, 127, 155101.

    Pyakurel, P. S., Phan, T. D., Drake, J. F., Shay, M. A., Øieroset, M., Haggerty, C. C., Stawarz, J., Burch, J. L., Ergun, R. E., Gershman, D. J., Giles, B. L., Torbert, R. B., Strangeway, R. J., & Russell, C. T. (2023), The Astrophysical Journal, On the Short-scale Spatial Variability of Electron Inflows in Electron-only Magnetic Reconnection in the Turbulent Magnetosheath Observed by MMS, 948, 20.

    Presenters

    • Prayash Sharma Pyakurel

      University of California, Berkeley, University of California Berkeley

    Authors

    • Prayash Sharma Pyakurel

      University of California, Berkeley, University of California Berkeley

    • Tai Phan

      Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley, University of California Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley,

    • James F Drake

      University of Maryland, College Park

    • Michael A Shay

      University of Delaware

    • Marit Oieroset

      University of California, Berkeley

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  • Conversion of magnetic energy to plasma kinetic energy during guide field magnetic reconnection in the laboratory

    ORAL · Invited

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    Publication: Conversion of magnetic energy to plasma kinetic energy during guide field magnetic reconnection in the laboratory, S. Bose, W. Fox, H. Ji, J. Yoo, A. Goodman, A. Alt, J. Jara-Almonte, and M. Yamada. Manuscript submitted (2022)

    Presenters

    • Sayak Bose

      Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

    Authors

    • Sayak Bose

      Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

    • William R Fox

      Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

    • Hantao Ji

      Princeton University

    • Jongsoo Yoo

      Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

    • Aaron Goodman

      Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

    • Andrew D Alt

      Princeton University

    • Masaaki Yamada

      Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University

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  • Are Reconnection X-points Important for Nonthermal Particle Acceleration in Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection?

    ORAL · Invited

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    Presenters

    • Fan Guo

      Los Alamos National Laboratory

    Authors

    • Fan Guo

      Los Alamos National Laboratory

    • Xiaocan Li

      Dartmouth College

    • Omar J French

      University of Colorado, Boulder

    • Qile Zhang

      Los Alamos National Laboratory

    • William S Daughton

      Los Alamos Natl Lab

    • Yi-Hsin Liu

      Dartmouth College

    • William H Matthaeus

      University of Delaware

    • Patrick Kilian

      Space Science Institute

    • Grant Johnson

      Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

    • Hui Li

      LANL

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  • On the hunt for a new theory of cosmic ray transport

    ORAL · Invited

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    Publication: 1) "Cosmic ray transport in large-amplitude turbulence with small-scale field reversals", P. Kempski, D. B. Fielding, E. Quataert, A. K. Galishnikova, M. W. Kunz, A. A. Philippov & B. Ripperda, 2023, arXiv:2304.12335 (submitted to MNRAS);
    2) "Reconciling cosmic ray transport theory with phenomenological models motivated by Milky-Way data", P. Kempski & E. Quataert, 2022, MNRAS, vol. 514, p. 657

    Presenters

    • Philipp Kempski

      Princeton University

    Authors

    • Philipp Kempski

      Princeton University

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