Space and Astro: Magnetic Reconnection, Whistler Modes, and Other Topics

Presentations

• Particle acceleration and energy partition in global simulations of magnetic reconnection

  ORAL

  Nov. 21, 2025, 9:30 AM – Nov. 21, 2025, 9:42 AM

  Presenters

  • Alexander Velberg

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Alexander Velberg

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Nuno F Loureiro

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Adam J Stanier

    Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Xiaocan Li

    Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Fan Guo

    Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • William S Daughton

    Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos National Laboratory

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• Turbulence and Nonthermal Particle Acceleration in 3D Magnetic Reconnection

  ORAL

  Nov. 21, 2025, 9:42 AM – Nov. 21, 2025, 9:54 AM

  Presenters

  • Fan Guo

    Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  Authors

  • Fan Guo

    Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • Xiaocan Li

    Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Qile Zhang

    University of Maryland

  • Ima Hernandez

    University of California, Los Angeles

  • Daniel A Humphrey

    UMadison

  • Omar J French

    University of Colorado, Boulder

  • William S Daughton

    Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Hui Li

    Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

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• Three-dimensional kinetic impacts on Rayleigh-Taylor-driven magnetic reconnection in accretion flows

  ORAL

  Nov. 21, 2025, 9:54 AM – Nov. 21, 2025, 10:06 AM

  Presenters

  • Braden Buck

    University of Wisconsin - Madison

  Authors

  • Braden Buck

    University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Vladimir V Zhdankin

    University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Bart Ripperda

    David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy, University of Toronto

  • Alexander A Philippov

    University of Maryland College Park

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• Modeling Particle Acceleration in Magnetic Reconnection with Machine Learning-Driven Sub-grid Physics

  ORAL

  Nov. 21, 2025, 10:06 AM – Nov. 21, 2025, 10:18 AM

  Presenters

  • Karin Roley

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Karin Roley

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Matthew Golden

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Dimitrios Psaltis

    Georgia Institute of Technology

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• Transition from Plasmoid Chains to Petschek Reconnection in Low-Magnetization Pair Plasmas: Effects on Particle Energization

  ORAL

  Nov. 21, 2025, 10:18 AM – Nov. 21, 2025, 10:30 AM

  Publication: A. Robbins & A. Spitkovsky, Transition to Petschek Reconnection in Subrelativistic Pair Plasmas: Implications for Particle Acceleration (planned paper)

  Presenters

  • Adam T Robbins

    Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  Authors

  • Adam T Robbins

    Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Anatoly Spitkovsky

    Princeton University

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• Magnetic Reconnection: An Alternative Explanation of Radio Emission in Galaxy Clusters

  ORAL

  Nov. 21, 2025, 10:30 AM – Nov. 21, 2025, 10:42 AM

  Publication: Subham Ghosh and Pallavi Bhat 2025 ApJL 979 L15 (DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad9f2d)

  Presenters

  • Subham Ghosh

    Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics

  Authors

  • Subham Ghosh

    Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics

  • Pallavi Bhat

    ICTS - TIFR

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• The Ginzburg-Landau Equation for Whistler Chorus in the Magnetosphere: Stability of Single-Mode Solutions

  ORAL

  Nov. 21, 2025, 10:42 AM – Nov. 21, 2025, 10:54 AM

  Presenters

  • Brandon Bonham

    Princeton University

  Authors

  • Brandon Bonham

    Princeton University

  • Amitava Bhattacharjee

    Princeton University

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• Study of Chorus Waves in a 2D Dipole Magnetic Field Using Full Kinetic Approach

  ORAL

  Nov. 21, 2025, 10:54 AM – Nov. 21, 2025, 11:06 AM

  Presenters

  • Vijay Shankar

    New Mexico Consortium, New Mexico, USA, New Mexico Consortium (NMC)

  Authors

  • Vijay Shankar

    New Mexico Consortium, New Mexico, USA, New Mexico Consortium (NMC)

  • Feiyu Li

    New Mexico Consortium (NMC)

  • Xiangrong Fu

    Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

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• Global Non-Axisymmetric Whistler Instabilities in a Rotating Plasma

  ORAL

  Nov. 21, 2025, 11:06 AM – Nov. 21, 2025, 11:18 AM

  Presenters

  • Alexandre P Sainterme

    Princeton University

  Authors

  • Alexandre P Sainterme

    Princeton University

  • Fatima Ebrahimi

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

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• Characterization of 2D Solitons in Magnetized and Unmagnetized Fluid Simulations for Debris Detection

  ORAL

  Nov. 21, 2025, 11:18 AM – Nov. 21, 2025, 11:30 AM

  Presenters

  • Adnan R Mansour

    University of Maryland, College Park, University of Maryland

  Authors

  • Adnan R Mansour

    University of Maryland, College Park, University of Maryland

  • Christine M Hartzell

    Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park

  • Aroh Barjatya

    Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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• A Unified Scientific Computational Framework: Entropy-Driven GUT & Heat Unification, Model Recursive Field Evolution and Emergent Gravity

  ORAL

  Nov. 21, 2025, 11:30 AM – Nov. 21, 2025, 11:42 AM

  Presenters

  • Madison J Newell

    Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach

  Authors

  • Madison J Newell

    Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach

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• Neutrino flux mixing in core-collapse supernova and Rayleigh-Taylor instability: A hydrodynamic approach

  ORAL

  Nov. 21, 2025, 11:42 AM – Nov. 21, 2025, 11:54 AM

  Presenters

  • Ravinder Bhambhu

    School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharla Nehru University, New Delhi, 110067

  Authors

  • Ravinder Bhambhu

    School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharla Nehru University, New Delhi, 110067

  • Ram Prasad Prajapati

    School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110067

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• Fully Kinetic Particle-In-Cell simulation of artificial current generation and expansion in the solar wind

  ORAL

  Nov. 21, 2025, 11:54 AM – Nov. 21, 2025, 12:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Mathias N Larrouturou

    McGill University

  Authors

  • Mathias N Larrouturou

    McGill University

  • Andrew J Higgins

    McGill University

  • Jeffrey K Greason

    Electric Sky

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