Magnetic Reconnection in Plasmas

Session

Morning III

31

12 Aug 2015, 09:00

132:028 (Nordita, Stockholm)

Conveners

Morning III

• Åke Nordlund (Niels Bohr Institute)

407. Reconnection Effects in the Heliosheath and Heliopause

Prof. Merav Opher (Boston University)

12/08/2015, 09:00

Workshop, August 10-14

Keynote

388. Radiation from accelerated particles in relativistic jets with shocks, shear-flow, and possible reconnection

Dr Kenichi Nishikawa (Univerisyt of Alabama in Huntsville)

12/08/2015, 09:30

Workshop, August 10-14

Oral

We investigated particle acceleration and shock structure associated with an unmagnetized relativistic jet propagating into an unmagnetized plasma. Strong magnetic fields generated in the trailing shock contribute to the electron’s transverse deflection and acceleration. Kinetic Kelvin- Helmholtz instability (kKHI) is also responsible to create strong DC and AC magnetic fields....

341. Instabilities and Magnetic Reconnection Near the Heliopause

Prof. Nikolai Pogorelov (Department of Space Science, University of Alabama in Huntsville)

12/08/2015, 09:55

Workshop, August 10-14

Invited

Recent simulations of the solar wind (SW) interaction with the local interstellar medium (LISM) performed by our team showed that the heliopause is the subject of various hydrodynamic instabilities which allow for an efficient, but spotty, mixing of the SW and LISM plasmas. The analysis of the coupling between the heliospheric and interstellar magnetic fields (HMF and ISMF) shows...