2nd EGS Alfvén Conference
Auroral Particle Acceleration

3 - 7 May 1999, Stockholm, Sweden


Scientific programme

Preliminary version, 27 April 1999

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Oral presentations

Monday, 3 May 1999
12.30-14.00
Registration
14.00-14.30
COFFEE
14.30-15.00 Welcome and introduction TBD
Session 1. Chairman: C-G Fälthammar
15.00-15.30 Auroral Particle Acceleration Processes: The Legacy of Hannes Alfvén (INVITED) Rickard Lundin
15.30-16.00 Outstanding Issues for Particle Acceleration in the Magnetosphere (INVITED) Joe Borovsky
16.00-16.30 Plasma wave on auroral field lines (INVITED) P. M. Kintner, P. Schuck, and J. Franz
18.30-20.30
Reception
Tuesday, 4 May 1999
Session 2. Chairman: L Eliasson
09.00-09.30 Auroral Currents and Particle Acceleration (INVITED) Rolf Boström
09.35-09.55 Mechanisms for Auroral Particle Acceleration (INVITED) Gerhard Haerendel
10.00-10.20 Ionospheric closure of auroral field-aligned currents (INVITED) Ryoichi Fujii
10.25-10.45
COFFEE
10.45-12.00
Poster session 1
12.00-13.30
LUNCH
Session 3. Chairman: M André
13.30-14.00 Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling and the Formation of Auroral Arcs (INVITED) Robert L. Lysak and Yan Song
14.05-14.25 The tau generator and related models of auroral key regions (INVITED) J. Vogt, K. H. Glassmeier, G. Haerendel
14.30-14.50 The Physics in the Auroral Dynamo Region (INVITED) Yan Song and Robert L. Lysak
14.55-15.20
COFFEE
15.20-15.40 Ionospheric Conductivity as a Control on Auroral Acceleration Processes (INVITED) Patrick T. Newell
15.45-16.00 Importance of ionospheric conductivity feedback effect in auroral accelerations K. Liou, C.-I. Meng, P. T. Newell, M. Brittnacher, and G. Parks
16.00-16.15 Almost Monoenergetic Ions: New Support for Alfvén Ideas on the Role of Electric Currents in Space Plasmas? V.N. Lutsenko
16.15-16.30 Particle Acceleration Mechanisms in Space Plasmas Michael A Raadu
16.30-16.45 Energetic tail evolution of auroral electron spectra M. P. Leubner
16.45-17.00 Formation of Electrostatic Potential Drops in the Auroral Zone D. Schriver, M. Ashour-Abdalla, R. Richard
Wednesday, 5 May 1999
Session 4. Chairman: R Lysak
09.00-09.20 Experimental investigations and simulations of quasi-steady potential drops (INVITED) S. Torvén and M. Wendt
09.25-09.45 Laboratory results of relevance to auroral particle acceleration (INVITED) M. E. Koepke
09.50-10.10
COFFEE
10.10-10.30 Characteristics of particle acceleration from Viking and Freja observations (INVITED) Lars Eliasson and Rickard Lundin
10.35-10.55 FAST results on low-altitude acceleration in the upward current region (INVITED) J. P. McFadden
11.00-11.20 Transverse Ion Energization (INVITED) Mats André
11.25-11.45 The relation between parallel potential drops and upward field-aligned currents (INVITED) T. Mukai, M. Morooka, and H. Fukunishi
11.50-13.30
LUNCH
Session 5. Chairman: R Boström
13.30-13.55 Some Relations Between Auroral Particle Populations and Parallel Potential Drops (INVITED) C. W. Carlson
14.00-14.25 Characteristics of the Auroral Acceleration Region (INVITED) Göran T. Marklund and Tomas Karlsson
14.30-14.50 The Downward Current Region of the Aurora (INVITED) R. E. Ergun, C. W. Carlson, J. P. McFadden, and L. Muschietti
14.55-15.15 Polar observations of solitary waves and wave packets at high altitudes (INVITED) Cynthia Cattell
15.20-15.40
COFFEE
15.40-16.00 Rectifying the Auroral Current Circuit (INVITED) Kjell Rönnmark
16.05-16.20 Relationships between temperature, density, voltage and current in Freja F7 data P Janhunen and A Olsson
16.20-16.35 On the Ion Acceleration in the F2-Region of the Ionosphere V.G. Vlasov, G.O. Zhizhko
16.35-16.50 The Morphology of Downward Directed Ion Beams D. M. Klumpar, M. A. Temerin, C. W. Carlson, J. P. McFadden
16.50-17.05 Modelisation of FAST observations of fast solitary waves Berthomier, M., and R. Pottelette
17.05-17.20 Charged Particle Acceleration in Regions with Field-Aligned Electric Current in the Auroral Magnetosphere P.A. Bespalov
17.20-17.35 Astrid-2: The Mission and its Early Results L. G. Blomberg, G. T. Marklund, P.-A. Lindqvist, T. Karlsson, J. A. Cumnock, B. Holback, O. Norberg, F. Primdahl, J. D. Winningham
Thursday, 6 May 1999
Session 6. Chairman: R Strangeway
09.00-09.20 Fine structure of high frequency waves and auroral acceleration processes (INVITED) Raymond Pottelette
09.25-09.45 Electrostatic solitary waves observed by Geotail (INVITED) H. Kojima. H. Matsumoto, and Y. Omura
09.50-10.10 Auroral Activations Powered by Field Line Resonance (INVITED) W. Lotko, A.V. Streltsov
10.15-10.35 Magnetospheric Field Line Resonances (INVITED) R. Rankin, J. C. Samson, and V. T. Tikhonchuk
10.40-11.00
COFFEE
11.00-12.30
Poster session 2
12.30-14.00
LUNCH
Session 7. Chairman: R Pottelette
14.00-14.30 Auroral Particle Acceleration by Waves (INVITED) R Bingham
14.35-14.55 Alfvenic Structures in the Magnetosphere and Their Role in Ion and Electron Acceleration (INVITED) K. Stasiewicz
15.00-15.15 TBD M. Temerin
15.15-15.35
COFFEE
15.35-15.50 Accelerated Electrons as the Source of Auroral Kilometric Radiation R. J. Strangeway, R. E. Ergun. C. W. Carlson, J. P. McFadden, G. T. Delory, and P. L. Pritchett
15.50-16.05 AKR bursts and substorm field line excitation. H. de Feraudy, J. Hanasz, R. Schreiber, S. Perraut, J.A. Sauvaud, F. Lefeuvre, M. Mogilevsky
16.05-16.20 Measurements of Lower-Hybrid Solitary Structures on the UCB Alaska '93 rocket G. T. Delory, P. Schuck, R. E. Ergun, C. W. Carlson, J.P. McFadden
16.20-16.35 On the Mass Dependence of Transverse Ion Acceleration by BBELF Waves E. J. Lund, E. Möbius, K. A. Lynch, D. M. Klumpar, R. E. Ergun, and C. W. Carlson
19.30
Conference Dinner
Friday, 7 May 1999
Session 8. Chairman: R Fujii
09.15-09.30 The role of Ion Cyclotron Turbulence in the Auroral Acceleration Region Abdelhaq M. Hamza
09.30-09.45 Analysis of the fast solitary structures on active field lines. I Roth, L Muschietti, R Ergun, C Carlson, C Cattell
09.45-10.05
COFFEE
10.05-10.35 The Connection between Auroral Acceleration and Auroral Morphology (INVITED) Thomas J. Hallinan and H.C. Stenbaek-Nielsen
10.40-11.00 Fine-Scale Optical Observations of Aurora (INVITED) Trond S. Trondsen and Leroy L. Cogger
11.05-11.20 Auroral Transients at the Equatorial Edge of the Auroral Oval Starkov G. V., Pudovkin M. I., Rijnbeek R. P. and Zaitseva S. A.
11.20-11.35 Initial results from a comparision of in-situ particle measurements and optical emissions as observed by the Astrid-2 micro-satellite U. Brändström, O. Norberg, R. Lundin, B. Gustavsson, Å. Steen, H. Lauche and D. Winningham.
11.35-11.50 Estimates of precipitating electron spectra by ground-based multi-station imaging B. Gustavsson, T. Sergienko, Å. Steen, U. Brändström, T. Aso, and M. Ejiri
11.50-13.30
LUNCH
Session 9. Chairman: R Ergun
13.30-13.45 Acceleration processes in the cusp region M. Yamauchi, L. Andersson, J. Clemmons, L. Blomberg, S. Ohtani, J.-E. Wahlund, L. Eliasson, and R. Lundin.
13.45-14.00 Acceleration Processes in the Cusp -- Observations by the FAST Satellite R Pfaff, C Carlson, J McFadden, R Ergun, J Clemmons, D Klumpar, E Moebius, R Elphic, R Strangeway
14.00-14.15 Cusp meso-scale phenomena and the ionosphere Hans Nilsson
14.15-14.30 Remote analysis of cleft ion acceleration using satellite particle measurements N. Dubouloz, D. Delcourt, C. Senior, M. Malingre, M. Bouhram, K.-J. Trattner, J.-A. Sauvaud, Y. Galperin, D. Chugunin
14.30-15.00
COFFEE
15.00-16.00 Meeting Summary M André, J Borovsky

Posters

Poster session 1, Tuesday, 4 May 1999
10.45-12.00 Small-scale auroral forms and associated shear velocities J. Vogt, H. U. Frey, G. Haerendel, H. Hoefner, J. L. Semeter
10.45-12.00 Broadband Low-Frequency Waves in the Auroral Region Maria Hamrin, Mats André, Tomas Karlsson and Göran Marklund
10.45-12.00 The origin of ion beams in the ionosphere. Mordovskaja Valentina
10.45-12.00 FAST/MIRACLE conjunctive studies of auroral arcs A Olsson, P Janhunen
10.45-12.00 Latitudinally propagating multiple arcs within a double oval and Pi2-like magnetic disturbances on the ground V. Safargaleev Svetlana Osipenko, A. Vasil'ev.
10.45-12.00 FAST Observations of Inertial Alfven Waves and Electron Acceleration C. C. Chaston, W. J. Peria, C. W. Carlson, R. E. Ergun and J. P. McFadden
10.45-12.00 Tail pressure release through auroral acceleration Mårten Blixt
10.45-12.00 The shape and evolution of Lower Hybrid density cavities observed by FREJA. S.H. Kjus, H.L. Pecseli, B. Lybekk, J. Trulsen, A. Eriksson
10.45-12.00 Evidence of Nonresonant Transverse Acceleration of High Altitude Auroral Ions Huddleston, M.M.; Pollock, C.J.; Pickett, J.S.; Young, D.T.; Wuest, M.P.; Moore, T.E.; Peterson, W.K.
10.45-12.00 Vorticity in the auroral plasma during different phases of magnetospheric substorms Pudovkin,M.I., Steen, A., Kornilov, O.I., Brändström, U., and Gustavsson, B.
10.45-12.00 Distribution Functions Modification induced by Parallel Electric Fields V. Génot, F. Mottez, P. Louarn
10.45-12.00 Auroral electron energization as derived from FAST data - a case study O. Marghitu, A. Blagau, J. Vogt, B. Klecker, G. Haerendel, E. Moebius, J. P. McFadden, C. W. Carlson, R. Strangeway, R. Elphic
10.45-12.00 Study of the Current-Voltage Relationship in Inverted V Events Using FAST E. E. Dors, J. W. Bonnell, R. C. Elphic, W. J. Peria, R. J. Strangeway, C. W. Carlson, R. E. Ergun, and J. P. McFadden
10.45-12.00 Observations of the accelerated electrons and associated plasma waves in the polar cusp onboard FREJA satellite J.Blecki , H.Rothkaehl, K. Stasiewicz, A. Eriksson, S.Savin
10.45-12.00 Kinetic theory of equilibrium of steady-state double layers S. M. Revenchuk and C. Wahlberg
Poster session 2, Thursday, 6 May 1999
11.00-12.30 Electron Acceleration by Superluminous Electromagnetic Waves D.Summers,R.M.Thorne,and F.Xiao
11.00-12.30 Direct particle acceleration by the radiation: What is the consequence? M. Yamauchi
11.00-12.30 Wave mode identification via wave distribution function analysis. T. Oscarsson, G. Stenberg, and O. Santolik
11.00-12.30 Geomagnetic substorms as a manifestation of the self-organised criticality V.M. Uritsky, M.I. Pudovkin, and Å. Steen
11.00-12.30 About two modes of charged particle motion in the field of a magnetic dipole S.F. Nosov, Yu.V. Kyzyurov, P.P. Malovichko
11.00-12.30 Nonlinear three-wave interaction of kinetic Alfven waves (KAW) and particle acceleration in the Earth's magnetosphere. P.P. Malovichko, S.F. Nosov, Yu.V. Kyzyurov,
11.00-12.30 Observations of Ionospheric Alfven Resonances on the Earth's Surface A. Kulak, K. Maslanka, A. Michalec and S. Zieba
11.00-12.30 Collisionless heating of electrons in a plasma stream Tomas Hurtig and Nils Brenning
11.00-12.30 Cusp Energetic Particles Observed by Interball Tail Probe in 1996 N.Pissarenko, I.Kirpichev, E.Budnik, I.Sandahl, V.Lutsenko, S.Savin, A.Moszhukina, and E.Morozova
11.00-12.30 First geophysical ULF (0.1-10 Hz) ground-based facility P.P.Belyaev L.A.Sobchakov A.V.Vasiljev S.V.Polyakov M.N.Yakunin S.V.Isaev A.G.Litvak A.I.Smirnov N.L.Astakhova
11.00-12.30 Turbulent Boundary Layer as a Source of the Accelerated Ionospheric Particles Savin, S., E. Budnik, N. Borodkova, S. Klimov, M. Nozdrachev, S. Romanov, A. Skalsky, Y. Yermolaev, L. Zelenyi, V. Romanov, I. Sandahl, J.A. Sauvaud, A. Pedersen, Blecki, J. Safrankova, Z. Nemecek, C.T. Russell, J. Buchner, B. Nikutowski, W. Peterson, S. Fuselier, E. Amata, J.L. Rauch , V. Korepanov
11.00-12.30 The Cross Polar Potential Drop and its Correlation to the Solar Wind using FAST Stefan Eriksson, Robert Ergun, William Peria, Charles Carlson, Lars Blomberg
11.00-12.30 Field-aligned electrons and related Alfvén waves in the auroral ionosphere N. Ivchenko, G. Marklund, Y. Khotyaintsev, K. Lynch


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