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Reconnection in planetary magnetospheres

Advances in Space Research, 2000
Current sheets in planetary magnetospheres that lie between regions of "oppositely-directed" magnetic field are either magnetopause-like, separating plasmas with different properties, or tail-like, separating plasmas of rather similar properties. The magnetopause current sheets generally have a nearly limitless supply of magnetized plasma that can ...
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Modeling planetary magnetospheres

Reviews of Geophysics, 1983
There has been a marked change in the character of magnetospheric modeling during the past quadrennium. In earlier studies, the emphasis was on describing the average magnetospheric properties. These descriptive models were empirical or semiempirical and provided a static picture of the magnetospheric configuration.
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Particle acceleration in planetary magnetospheres

Nature, 1974
MEASUREMENTS of energetic particle fluxes in space1,2 have stimulated interest in the problem of particle acceleration inside planetary magnetospheres. Suggestions that terrestrial auroral (keV) electron precipitation is associated with transient space charge effects3, have been discarded, largely because the parallel (plasma) electrical conductivity ...
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ULF waves in planetary magnetospheres

2006
Ultra-low frequency (ULF) waves are messengers in space plasmas. They communicate information about unstable, free-energy-containing plasma configurations, transient phenomena, or obstacles in flowing plasmas; they transport energy between different parts of magnetospheric systems; and they serve as momentum coupling agents between remote regions such ...
Karl-Heinz Glassmeier, Jared Espley
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Charged dust in the outer planetary magnetospheres

The Moon and the Planets, 1981
Interplanetary dust grains entering the Jovian plasmasphere become charged, and those in a certain size range get magneto-gravitationally trapped in the corotating plasmasphere. The trajectories of such dust grains intersect the orbits of one or more of the Galilean satellites.
Jay Roderick Hill, D. A. Mendis
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Source‐surface modeling of planetary magnetospheres

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 1996
In the source‐surface approach to field modeling, the magnetosphere is divided conceptually into inner and outer regions (called S and T) by prescribing a cross‐magnetospheric surface that marks the tail entrance. The source surface thus consists of the prescribed magnetopause and the prescribed tail‐entrance surface.
Michael Schulz, Michael C. McNab
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New horizons in planetary magnetospheres

Advances in Space Research, 2006
Abstract The magnetospheres of Mercury, the Earth and Jupiter provide an especially good comparison of the processes that control the behavior of magnetospheres. The Mercurian magnetosphere is the smallest. Its field lines are anchored in the electrically conducting interior of Mercury and not in a conducting ionosphere.
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Plasma waves in planetary magnetospheres

Reviews of Geophysics, 1983
The studies of magnetospheric plasma waves in the 1979–1982 quadrennium have included not only intensive studies of plasma waves in the Earth's magnetosphere but also, for the first time, in situ observations and detailed analyses of plasma waves in the magnetospheres of Jupiter and Saturn.
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Multiscale coupling in planetary magnetospheres

Advances in Space Research, 2002
Abstract Processes in planetary magnetospheres occur on a variety of scales. On the largest scales are the plasma circulations induced in the magnetospheric plasma externally by the solar wind interaction or internally by processes such as massloading of the jovian magnetosphere by the moon Io.
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Planetary magnetospheres: 1991?1993

Surveys in Geophysics, 1995
This paper briefly summarizes published work in the field of planetary magnetospheres from 1991 to mid-1993. The 1992 Ulysses fly-by and the proximity of Jupiter for remote sensing have meant that the Jovian magnetosphere has dominated interest in the field, resulting in studies of the interaction of magnetospheric plasma with dust grains as well as ...
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