Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities
Alfvén waves are fundamental to the dynamics of space plasmas. Recent advances in our knowledge about Alfvén waves have come from several directions, including new space missions to unexplored heliospheric regions, sophisticated rocket campaigns in the auroral zone, enlarged magnetometer arrays and radar networks, and significant advances in computer modeling.
Alfvén Waves Across Heliophysics: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities is an interdisciplinary collaboration from different space science communities to review recent and current Alfvén wave research.
Volume highlights include: - Alfvén waves in the solar atmosphere- Alfvén waves at the giant planets- Alfvén waves at Mars- Alfvén waves in moon-magnetosphere systems- Alfvén waves in geospace- Alfvén waves in the laboratory
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Table of Contents
List of Contributors viiPreface ix
1 Introduction to Alfvén Waves Across Heliophysics: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities 1
Andreas Keiling
Part I Sun
2 Alfvén Waves in the Solar Atmosphere 5
Norbert Magyar
3 Alfvén Waves in Solar Flare 39
Alexander J. B. Russell
4 Excitation and Absorption of Alfvén Waves on the Sun and at Earth: A Compariso 75
Gerhard Haerendel
Part II Planets
5 Alfvén Waves at Mars 101
Norberto Romanelli, Christopher M. Fowler, Gina A. DiBraccio, Jared R. Espley, and Jasper S. Halekas
6 Alfvén Waves at the Giant Planets 125
David Southwood
7 Alfvén Waves Related to Moon-Magnetosphere Interactions 139
Bertrand Bonfond and Ali Sulaiman
8 Alfvén Waves and Aurora at Earth and Jupiter: Comparative Analysis 163
Robert L. Lysak
Part III Earth
9 Role of Alfvén Waves in Dynamic Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling: New Perspectives From Satellite and Ground Observations 179
Ivan P. Pakhotin and Ian R. Mann
10 Alfvén Waves in the Earth’s Magnetosphere 215
Andrew N. Wright, Michael D. Hartinger, Kazue Takahashi, and Tom Elsden
11 Alfvén Waves at the Interface of Solar Wind and Magnetosphere 249
Eun-Hwa Kim, Jay R. Johnson, and Peter A. Damiano
12 Laboratory-Space Comparisons of Alfvén Waves 269
James W. R. Schroeder
Index 297
