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An overview of current knowledge and future research directions in magnetospheric physics

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

    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

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      Book Synopsis

      An overview of current knowledge and future research directions in magnetospheric physics

      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

        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

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