Conveners
Day 2 / Session 3
- Fan Guo (Los Alamos National Lab)
The NASA Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission uses four closely-spaced spacecraft to investigate magnetic reconnection in the boundary regions of the Earth’s magnetosphere by measuring charged particles and electric and magnetic fields at the electron scale for the first time in space. Magnetic reconnection involves the conversion of magnetic energy to heat and charged particle kinetic...
Nonthermal particle acceleration (NTPA), including to ultra-relativistic energies, plays an extremely important role in astrophysics. Some of its most spectacular manifestations come from high-energy astrophysics, where we routinely observe very bright and often rapidly-varying flaring emission with broadband power-law spectra from a rich variety of objects, including the exotic environments...
Recent spectroscopic instruments such as Hinode/EIS and IRIS have enabled significant advancements in our understanding of some of the physical mechanisms at play during the impulsive phase of flares, including details of how the non-thermal energy is released and propagated from the corona to the low-atmosphere through accelerated particles. At the same time, the new discoveries have brought...
