Del 207 - Geophysical Monograph Series

Magnetotails in the Solar System

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

AvAndreas Keiling,Caitríona Jackman,Peter Delamere

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All magnetized planets in our solar system (Mercury, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune) interact strongly with the solar wind and possess well developed magnetotails. It is not only the strongly magnetized planets that have magnetotails. Mars and Venus have no global intrinsic magnetic field, yet they possess induced magnetotails. Comets have magnetotails that are formed by the draping of the interplanetary magnetic field. In the case of planetary satellites (moons), the magnetotail refers to the wake region behind the satellite in the flow of either the solar wind or the magnetosphere of its parent planet. The largest magnetotail of all in our solar system is the heliotail, the “magnetotail” of the heliosphere. The variety of solar wind conditions, planetary rotation rates, ionospheric conductivity, and physical dimensions provide an outstanding opportunity to extend our understanding of the influence of these factors on magnetotail processes and structures.Volume highlights include: Discussion on why a magnetotail is a fundamental problem of magnetospheric physicsUnique collection of tutorials on a large range of magnetotails in our solar systemIn-depth reviews comparing magnetotail processes at Earth with other magnetotail structures found throughout the heliosphereCollectively, Magnetotails in the Solar System brings together for the first time in one book a collection of tutorials and current developments addressing different types of magnetotails. As a result, this book should appeal to a broad community of space scientists, and it should also be of interest to astronomers who are looking at tail-like structures beyond our solar system.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2015-03-24
Mått224 x 287 x 27 mm
Vikt1 383 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieGeophysical Monograph Series
Antal sidor424
FörlagJohn Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN9781118842348

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Andreas Keiling is an Associate Research Physcists with the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California-Berkeley. Dr. Keiling has held various visiting professorships. He has also served as lead convener for sessions at the American Geophysical Union, European Geophysical Union, and Chapman conferences. Catriona Jackson currently holds a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship and a Royal Astronomical Society Fellowship in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at University College London. Peter A. Delamere is an Associate Professor at the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks.

Contributors vii PrefaceAndreas Keiling, Caitríona Jackman, and Peter DelamereixSection I: Introduction1 Magnetotail: Unsolved Fundamental Problem of Magnetospheric PhysicsVytenis M Vasyliūnas 3Section II: Tutorials2 Mercury’s MagnetotailT Sundberg and J A Slavin 233 Magnetotails of Mars and VenusE Dubinin and M Fraenz 434 Earth’s MagnetotailRobert L McPherron 615 Jupiter’s MagnetotailNorbert Krupp , Elena Kronberg , and Aikaterini Radioti 856 Saturn’s MagnetotailCaitríona M Jackman 997 Magnetotails of Uranus and NeptuneC S Arridge 1198 Satellite MagnetotailsXianzhe Jia 1359 Moon’s Plasma WakeJ S Halekas, D A Brain and M Holmström 14910 Physics of Cometary MagnetospheresTamas I Gombosi 16911 HeliotailDavid J McComas 189Section III: Specialized Topics12 Formation of Magnetotails: Fast and Slow Rotators ComparedD J Southwood 19913 Solar Wind Interaction with Giant Magnetospheres and Earth’s MagnetosphereP A Delamere 21714 Solar Wind Entry Into and Transport Within Planetary MagnetotailsSimon Wing and Jay R Johnson 23515 Magnetic Reconnection in Different Environments: Similarities and DifferencesMichael Hesse, Nicolas Aunai, Masha Kuznetsova, Seiji Zenitani, and Joachim Birn 25916 Origin and Evolution of Plasmoids and Flux Ropes in the Magnetotails of Earth and MarsJ P Eastwood and S A Kiehas 26917 Current Sheets Formation in Planetary MagnetotailAntonius Otto, Min-Shiu Hsieh, and Fred Hall IV 28918 Substorms: Plasma and Magnetic Flux Transport from Magnetic Tail into MagnetosphereGerhard Haerendel 30719 Injection, Interchange, and Reconnection: Energetic Particle Observations in Saturn’s MagnetosphereD G Mitchell, P C Brandt, J F Carbary, W S Kurth, S M Krimigis, C Paranicas, Norbert Krupp, D C Hamilton, B H Mauk, G B Hospodarsky, M K Dougherty, and W R Pryor 32720 Radiation Belt Electron Acceleration and Role of MagnetotailGeoffrey D Reeves 34521 Substorm Current Wedge at Earth and MercuryL Kepko, K-H Glassmeier, J A Slavin, and T Sundberg 36122 Review of Global Simulation Studies of Effect of Ionospheric Outflow on Magnetosphere-Ionosphere System DynamicsM Wiltberger 373Index 393