From: Claire Foullon – claire.foullon@warwick.ac.uk
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS TO “Particle acceleration in solar system plasmas:
synergy between in-situ and remote observations” (EGU 2011 Session ST1.3)
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2011/session/6990
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: “Particle acceleration in solar system plasmas: synergy
between in-situ and remote observations”. EGU General Assembly 2011, Session
ST1.3, 03-08 April
2011, Vienna, Austria .
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This session is intended as a discussion forum on our recent understanding
of particle acceleration mechanisms in solar system plasmas from both
experimental and theoretical
view points, with special emphasis on current and future synergies between
in situ and remote observations and models/simulations supporting them.
Synergism is crucial to
establish how fundamental acceleration mechanisms operate in different solar
system plasma environments (e.g. solar corona/wind, planetary
magnetospheres) and to what extent
the knowledge obtained from those can be realistically exported to distant
astrophysical environments (e.g. stellar coronae, supernovae and
astrophysical jets), where similar acceleration mechanisms are thought to
operate. Such collaborative approach is strongly motivated by major
observational advances, obtained with a new generation of spacecraft like
Cluster, Themis, Rhessi, Hinode, Stereo, SDO, etc., and future missions such
as Solar Orbiter and Solar Probe Plus that will allow the first simultaneous
in situ and remote observations in the solar corona/wind. The ultimate goal
is to establish a network of scientists from different fields aiming to
study particle acceleration from a comparative point of view. We solicit
contributions on a wide range of acceleration mechanisms such as those
operating in reconnection regions during solar flares and
planetary substorms, in slow/fast solar wind and co-rotating interactions
regions, at interplanetary and planetary shocks/foreshocks, in radiation
belts and in auroral regions. We are also addressing the role of magnetic
topology for the acceleration e.g. parallel and perpendicular shock
geometries, formation of resonant magnetic field lines and expanding flux
ropes and generation of interaction regions between fast jets and ambient
plasma regions.
Contributions for oral and poster presentations are now solicited.
Important deadlines:
Support applications: December 3, 2010
Abstract submission: January 10, 2011
Pre-registration: February 28, 2011
Convener:
Alessandro Retinò, Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas – CNRS, France
(alessandro.retino@lpp.polytechnique.fr)
Co-conveners:
Claire Foullon, University of Warwick, UK (claire.foullon@warwick.ac.uk)
Harald Kucharek, University fo New Hampshire, USA (harald.kucharek@unh.edu)
Olga Malandraki, National Observatory of Athens, Greece
(omaland@astro.noa.gr)
For more information and abstract submission please check the meeting
website: http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2011/session/6990