Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2016

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International Session (Oral)

Symbol P (Space and Planetary Sciences) » P-EM Solar-Terrestrial Sciences, Space Electromagnetism & Space Environment

[P-EM06] Magnetospheric Multi-Scale (MMS) mission -- A new age of magnetospheric physics

Tue. May 24, 2016 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM 103 (1F)

Convener:*Seiji Zenitani(National Astronomical Observatory of Japan), Naritoshi Kitamura(Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), Yoshifumi Saito(Solar System Science Division, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), Paul Cassak(West Virginia University), Li-Jen Chen(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), Craig Pollock(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), Chair:Craig James Pollock, Yoshizumi Miyoshi(Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University)

NASA's Magnetospheric Multi-Scale (MMS) mission is an international multi-satellite mission to probe space plasmas in Earth's magnetosphere. It is the first mission to spatially and temporally resolve electron-scale physics. The mission's primary target is to understand magnetic reconnection, but its ultra-high-resolution observation will help us to understand various other magnetospheric processes. Launched in March 2015, the four MMS spacecrafts have been probing Earth's dayside magnetopause since September 2015. MMS will further probe reconnection sites in the magnetotail in 2017. Therefore, it is a worthy time to gather an discuss what is being learned with MMS.
The purpose of this session is to overview the current status, to bring the latest results to the community, and to anticipate future prospects of all MMS-related science. We invite contributions from satellite observations, numerical simulations, laboratory observations, and theories that address the physics of magnetic reconnection and MMS-related magnetospheric processes. Geotail, Cluster2, THEMIS, VAP, and other observations that enlighten future MMS observations are welcome.
This is a joint session with American Geophysical Union (AGU). We hope this session will boost international collaboration between Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) scientists, AGU scientists, and space physicists around the world.

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

[PEM06-08] Structure of the magnetopause during quasi-continuous spatially-extended magnetic reconnection: Geotail and MMS conjunction on 2015-10-02

★Invited papers

*Hiroshi Hasegawa1, Naritoshi Kitamura1, Yoshifumi Saito1, Iku Shinohara1, Shoichiro Yokota1, Tsugunobu Nagai2, Seiji Zenitani3, The MMS team (1.Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, 2.Tokyo Institute of Technology, 3.National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM

[PEM06-09] Shift of the magnetopause reconnection line to the winter hemisphere under southward IMF conditions: Geotail and MMS observations

*Naritoshi Kitamura1, Hiroshi Hasegawa1, Yoshifumi Saito1, Iku Shinohara1, Shoichiro Yokota1, Tsugunobu Nagai2, Craig J Pollock3,4, Barbara L Giles3, Thomas E Moore3, Roy B Torbert5, Christopher T Russell6, Robert J Strangeway6, James L Burch7 (1.Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, 2.Tokyo Institute of Technology, 3.NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 4.Denali Scientific, 5.University of New Hampshire, 6.University of California, Los Angeles, 7.Southwest Research Institute)

11:30 AM - 11:45 AM

[PEM06-10] Locations of Magnetopause Magnetic Reconnection: The Role of Magnetosheath Plasma Pressure

*Hui Zhang1, Zuyin Pu2, Jianyong Lu3, Suiyan Fu2, Changbo Zhu1, Chongjing Yuan1, Zhaodi Zhou1, Weixing Wan1, Libo Liu1, Yiding Chen1, Huijun Le1 (1.Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2.School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, 3.College of Math & Statistics, Institute of Space Weather, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology)

11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

[PEM06-11] Structure of the magnetopause observed by MMS and its effects on the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability

*Kanako Seki1, Yosuke Matsumoto2, Naritoshi Kitamura3, Yoshifumi Saito3, Shoichiro Yokota3, Masahiro Hoshino1, Craig J. Pollock4,5, Barbara L. Giles5, Thomas E. Moore5, Roy B. Torbert6, Christopher T. Russell7, James L. Burch8 (1.Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, 2.Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, 3.ISAS, JAXA, 4.Denali Scientific, 5.NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 6.University of New Hampshire, 7.University of California, Los Angeles, 8.Southwest Research Institute)

12:00 PM - 12:15 PM

[PEM06-12] MMS satellites and EISCAT radar observations of dayside flow bursts.

*Akimasa Ieda1, Yasunobu Ogawa2, Shin-ichiro Oyama1, Naritoshi Kitamura3, Yoshifumi Saito3, Shoichiro Yokota3, Hiroshi Hasegawa3, Satoshi Taguchi4, Keisuke Hosokawa5, Shinobu Machida1, Hirotoshi Uchino4, Tomoaki Hori1, C. J. Pollock6, B. L. Giles6, T. E. Moore6, C. T. Russell7, R. J. Strangeway7, Rumi Nakamura8, J. L. Burch9 (1.Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, 2.National Institute of Polar Research, 3.Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, 4.Kyoto University, 5.University of Electro-Communication, 6.NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 7.University of California, Los Angeles, 8.Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, 9.Southwest Research Institute)