In the six decades since the term 'magnetosphere' was first introduced, much has been theorized and discovered about the magnetized space surrounding each of the bodies in our solar system. Each magnetosphere is unique yet behaves according to universal physical processes.
Magnetospheres in the Solar System brings together contributions from experimentalists, theoreticians, and numerical modelers to present an overview of diverse magnetospheres, from the mini-magnetospheres of Mercury to the giant planetary magnetospheres of Jupiter and Saturn.
Volume highlights include:
- Concise history of magnetospheres, basic principles, and equations - Overview of the fundamental processes that govern magnetospheric physics - Tools and techniques used to investigate magnetospheric processes - Special focus on Earth’s magnetosphere and its dynamics - Coverage of planetary magnetic fields and magnetospheres throughout the solar system - Identification of future research directions in magnetospheric physics
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Table of Contents
List of Contributors ix
Preface xvi
Part I: The Earth Magnetosphere 1
1 A Brief History of the Magnetosphere 3
David J. Southwood
2 Large-Scale Structure and Dynamics of the Magnetosphere 15
David G. Sibeck and Kyle R. Murphy
3 The Equations of the Magnetosphere 37
Herbert Gunell
Part II: Fundamental Processes 47
4 Magnetic Reconnection in the Near-Earth Magnetotail 49
Tsugunobu Nagai
5 Turbulence and Complexity of Magnetospheric Plasmas 67
Marius Echim, Tom Chang, Peter Kovacs, Anna Wawrzaszek, Emiliya Yordanova, Yasuhito Narita, Zoltan Vörös, Roberto Bruno, Wieslaw Macek, Kalevi Mursula, and Giuseppe Consolini
6 Wave--Particle Interactions in the Earths Magnetosphere 93
Richard M. Thorne, Jacob Bortnik, Wen Li, and Qianli Ma
7 Cross-Scale Energy Transport in Space Plasmas: Applications to the Magnetopause Boundary 109
Katariina Nykyri, Xuanye Ma, and Jay Johnson
Part III: Solar Wind--Magnetosphere Coupling 123
8 Solar Wind Interaction with Earths Bow Shock 125
Georges. K. Parks, Ensang Lee, Zhongwei W. Yang, Naiguo Lin, Suiyan Y. Fu, and Ying Liu
9 The Magnetosheath 137
Yasuhito Narita, Ferdinand Plaschke, and Zoltán Vörös
10 Dayside Magnetopause Processes 153
Stephen A. Fuselier
11 The Polar Cusps of the Earths Magnetosphere 163
Benoit Lavraud and Karlheinz J. Trattner
12 The Earths Low-Latitude Boundary Layer 177
Takuma K. M. Nakamura
Part IV: Magnetosphere--Ionosphere Coupling 193
13 Field-Aligned Currents in the Magnetosphere--Ionosphere 195
Hermann Lühr and Guram Kervalishvili
14 Ionospheric Ion Acceleration and Transport 207
Andrew W. Yau, Takumi Abe, Mats André, Andrew D. Howarth, and William K. Peterson
15 Cold Ionospheric Ions in the Magnetosphere 219
Mats André, Sergio Toledo-Redondo, and Andrew W. Yau
16 Magnetosphere--Ionosphere Coupling of Precipitating Electrons and Ionospheric Conductance 229
George V. Khazanov, David G. Sibeck, and Mike Chu
Part V: The Dynamic Magnetosphere 243
17 Magnetotail Processes 245
Joachim Birn, Andrei Runov, and Yuri Khotyaintsev
18 The Active Magnetosphere: Substorms and Storms 277
Yukitoshi Nishimura and Larry R. Lyons
19 The Northward IMF Magnetosphere 293
Robert C. Fear
20 A Brief Review of the Ring Current and Outstanding Problems 311
Raluca Ilie, Muhammad Fraz Bashir, and Elena A. Kronberg
21 Source, Loss, and Transport of Energetic Particles Deep Inside Earths Magnetosphere (L < 4) 323
Xinlin Li, Richard S. Selesnick, Hong Zhao, Daniel N. Baker, J. Bernard Blake, and Michael A. Temerin
22 The Plasmasphere: Its Interactions and Dynamics 335
Fabien Darrouzet, Dennis L. Gallagher, and Johan De Keyser
23 Impact of Ionospheric Ions on Magnetospheric Dynamics 353
Elina A. Kronberg, Elena E. Grigorenko, Raluca Ilie, Lynn Kistler, and Dan Welling
Part VI: Planetary Magnetic Fields 365
24 Planetary Magnetic Fields 367
Karl-Heinz Glassmeier and Daniel Heyner
Part VII: Induced Magnetospheres 391
25 Induced Magnetospheres: Mars 393
Jasper S. Halekas, Janet G. Luhmann, Eduard Dubinin, and Yingjuan Ma
26 Induced Magnetospheres: Titan 407
César Bertucci
27 Birth of a Magnetosphere 427
Hans Nilsson, Etienne Behar, James L. Burch, Christopher M. Carr, Anders I. Eriksson, Karl-Heinz Glassmeier, Pierre Henri, Marina Galand, Charlotte Goetz, Herbert Gunell, and Tomas Karlsson
28 Induced Magnetospheres: Atmospheric Escape 441
David A. Brain
Part VIII: Giant Planet Magnetospheres 453
29 The Magnetodisk Regions of Jupiter and Saturn 455
Nicholas Achilleos, Patick Guio, Flavien Hardy, Chris Paranicas, and Arianna M. Sorba
30 Fast Rotating Magnetospheres: Jupiter and Saturn Plasma Sources, Loss and Transport 471
Abigail M. Rymer
31 Gas Giant Magnetosphere--Ionosphere--Thermosphere Coupling 485
Licia C. Ray and Japheth N. Yates
32 The Radiation Belts of Jupiter and Saturn 499
Elias Roussos and Peter Kollmann
33 Asymmetrical Magnetospheres: Uranus and Neptune 515
Christopher S. Arridge and Carol Paty
Part IX: Mini-magnetospheres and Moon--Magnetosphere Interactions 535
34 A Dungey Cycle in the Life of Mercurys Magnetosphere 537
James A. Slavin, Suzanne M. Imber, and Jim M. Raines
35 The Magnetosphere of Ganymede 557
Xianzhe Jia and Margaret G. Kivelson
36 Overview of Moon--Magnetosphere Interactions 575
Joachim Saur
Part X: Investigating Magnetospheric Processes 595
37 Global Simulations 597
Joachim Raeder, Kai Germaschewski, William D. Cramer, and John Lyon
38 Kinetic Modeling in the Magnetosphere 607
Stefano Markidis, Vyacheslav Olshevsky, Gábor Tóth, Yuxi Chen, Ivy Bo Peng, Giovanni Lapenta, and Tamas Gombosi
39 Data-Based Modeling of the Earth's Magnetic Field 617
Nikolai Tsyganenko, Varvara Andreeva, Marina Kubyshkina, Mikhail Sitnov, and Grant Stephens
40 Multispacecraft Measurements In The Magnetosphere 637
Malcolm W. Dunlop, TieYan Wang, XiangCheng Dong, Stein Haarland, QuanQi Shi, HuiShan Fu, Johan De Keyser, Chao Shen, ZhaoJin Rong, Christophe Phillippe Escoubet, ZuYin Pu, and Jonathan Eastwood
41 Exploring Small Scales with MMS 657
James L. Burch and Kyoung-Joo Hwang
42 Global Energetic Neutral Atom (ENA) Imaging of Magnetospheres 673
Pontus C. Brandt
43 Laboratory Experiments: Putting Space into the Lab 699
Mark Koepke
Part XI: Future Directions 715
44 Challenges in Modeling the Outer Magnetosphere 717
Gábor Tóth, Yuxi Chen, Zhenguang Huang, and Bart van der Holst
45 Does a Magnetosphere Protect the Ionosphere? 729
Romain Maggiolo and Herbert Gunell
46 Some Unsolved Problems of Magnetospheric Physics 743
Michael H. Denton
47 Instigators of Future Change in Magnetospheric Research 753
Michael W. Liemohn, Amy M. Keesee, L. Kepko, and Mark B. Moldwin
Index 765
