Magnetic Reconnection in Plasmas

Session

Afternoon III

34

12 Aug 2015, 15:45

132:028 (Nordita, Stockholm)

Conveners

Afternoon III

• Yuri Khotyaintsev (IRF - Uppsala)

343. Theory and Simulations of Magnetic Reconnection at the Dayside Magnetopause

Paul Cassak (West Virginia University)

12/08/2015, 15:45

Workshop, August 10-14

Invited

Magnetic reconnection at the dayside magnetopause is a crucial facet of solar wind-magnetospheric coupling, as it drives magnetospheric convection and is necessary for magnetic energy storage in the magnetotail. Many fundamental questions about dayside reconnection remain insufficiently answered quantitatively and even qualitatively, such as the location and local efficiency of...

344. Measures of diffusion regions applied to 2D PIC reconnection simulations

Prof. Martin Goldman (University of Colorado at Boulder)

12/08/2015, 16:10

Workshop, August 10-14

Invited

The primary goal of the current NASA-MMS mission is to "identify and study diffusion regions during magnetic reconnection in Earth's magnetopause and magnetotail. Yet the term diffusion region is often misunderstood and can be ambiguous. Different conditions for a region to be a "diffusion region" are interpreted theoretically, related to each other and applied to 2D PIC...