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, 9:45 AM – Nov. 21, 2008, 9:57 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, 9:57 AM – Nov. 21, 2008, 10:09 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, 10:09 AM – Nov. 21, 2008, 10:21 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, 10:21 AM – Nov. 21, 2008, 10:33 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, 10:33 AM – Nov. 21, 2008, 10:45 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, 10:45 AM – Nov. 21, 2008, 10:57 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, 10:57 AM – Nov. 21, 2008, 11:09 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, 11:09 AM – Nov. 21, 2008, 11:21 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, 11:21 AM – Nov. 21, 2008, 11:33 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, 11:33 AM – Nov. 21, 2008, 11:45 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, 11:45 AM – Nov. 21, 2008, 11:57 AM

  Authors

  • Samuel Lazerson

    Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks

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