Space Physics and Aeronomy, Magnetospheres in the Solar System

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