Other names for $E_{p+1}$ $\pmod{p}$?

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If I want to know properties of $E_{p+1}$ modulo $p$, do you know a name for this modular form, so that it is easier to search via the internet?

So far, what I know is that $E_{p-1}$ is the Hasse invariant, which is connected to supersingular elliptic curves, and that $E_{p+1}$ is connected to $E_{p-1}$ via the Serre-Ramanujan differential operator $\partial$, where we have the identities \begin{align*} \partial E_{p-1} &= E_{p+1}\\ \partial E_{p+1} &= -E_4 E_{p-1} \end{align*} when working modulo $p$ (and these identities are used to show things like, if $A\in\mathbb{F}_{p}[X,Y]$ is the polynomial such that $A(E_4,E_6)=E_{p-1}$ and $B$ is likewise for $\mathbb{F}_{p}[X,Y]$, then $A$ has no repeated factors and is relatively prime to $B$). However, for a nonexpert like me, it took some digging around until I finally realized $E_{p-1}$ is also the Hasse invariant (and so you could use tools from elliptic curves as well). Is there also a different name for $E_{p+1}$ $\pmod{p}$?

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Unfortunately, the only name I know for this besides $E_{p+1}$ is "$B$", which is not so useful for googling. Serre's article on modular forms mod $p$ is a standard reference for this sort of thing, by the way.

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I am really not that deep in this but my prime obsessive intuition says that what you are looking for is about the so called "Kummer Congruences of Bernoulli Numbers versus Eisenstein series". Have a look here or just google on this term for various other sources.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022314X02928027