Reconnection, Shocks, Jets, and Other Astrophysical Topics

Presentations

• Relativistic Nonthermal Particle Acceleration in Plasmoid-Mediated Magnetic Reconnection

  ORAL

  Nov. 6, 2018, 5:00 PM – Nov. 6, 2018, 5:12 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, 5:12 PM – Nov. 6, 2018, 5:24 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, 5:24 PM – Nov. 6, 2018, 5:36 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, 5:36 PM – Nov. 6, 2018, 5:48 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, 5:48 PM – Nov. 6, 2018, 6:00 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, 6:00 PM – Nov. 6, 2018, 6:12 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, 6:12 PM – Nov. 6, 2018, 6:24 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, 6:24 PM – Nov. 6, 2018, 6:36 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, 6:36 PM – Nov. 6, 2018, 6:48 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, 6:48 PM – Nov. 6, 2018, 7:00 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, 7:00 PM – Nov. 6, 2018, 7:12 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, 7:12 PM – Nov. 6, 2018, 7:24 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, 7:24 PM – Nov. 6, 2018, 7:36 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, 7:36 PM – Nov. 6, 2018, 7:48 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, 7:48 PM – Nov. 6, 2018, 8:00 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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