Primary Convener:
Stanislav Boldyrev, University of Wisconsin Madison

Convener:
Christopher Chen, Queen Mary University of London
Nuno Loureiro, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Vadim Roytershteyn, Space Science Institute Boulder

Chair:
Stanislav Boldyrev, University of Wisconsin Madison
Christopher Chen, Queen Mary University of London
Nuno Loureiro, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Vadim Roytershteyn, Space Science Institute Boulder

This session welcomes contributions from observational, numerical, analytical, and laboratory studies that explore turbulence, magnetic reconnection, and non-thermal particles in the heliosphere. These phenomena are sometimes interconnected but can also represent different aspects of nonlinear plasma dynamics. Magnetic turbulence can create current sheets that heat the plasma and initiate magnetic reconnection. Magnetic reconnection events can alter turbulent energy cascades and accelerate particles. Non-thermal and non-isotropic particle distributions can lead to instabilities and turbulence. We invite studies addressing these and related phenomena across various space environments, such as the solar corona, solar wind, and Earth's magnetosphere. We welcome contributions examining diverse regimes, including low and high plasma beta, weak and strong turbulence, balanced and imbalanced turbulent cascades, non-relativistic and relativistic dynamics, and fluctuations at hydrodynamic and kinetic scales.

Index Terms
2772 Plasma waves and instabilities
4490 Turbulence
7514 Energetic particles
7526 Magnetic reconnection

Neighborhoods:
4. Beyond Earth

Cross-Listed:
SA - SPA-Aeronomy
SM - SPA-Magnetospheric Physics