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Captured dust in planetary magnetospheres

AIP Conference Proceedings, 1998
Interplanetary and interstellar dust particles acquire a positive charge in the solar wind and can be strongly influenced by the Lorentz force as they pass through planetary magnetospheres. There, the charge on the particles changes rapidly when they pass through different plasma environments.
Joshua E. Colwell, Mihály Horányi, Eberhard Grün   +2 more
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Planetary Ionospheres and Magnetospheres

2008
We begin this chapter with a detailed review of the ionization and recombination processes in a planetary ionosphere, as exemplified by the ionosphere we know the most about, that of the Earth. We then extend the discussion to the ionospheres of Mars and Venus, and examine atmospheric loss mechanisms.
Eugene F. Milone, William J. F. Wilson
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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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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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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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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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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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Kelvin Helmholtz Instability in Planetary Magnetospheres

Space Science Reviews, 2014
Kelvin–Helmholtz instability plays a particularly important role in plasma transport at magnetospheric boundaries because it can control the development of a turbulent boundary layer, which governs the transport of mass, momentum, and energy across the boundary.
Jay R. Johnson, Simon Wing, Peter A. Delamere   +2 more
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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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Energetic Particles from Planetary Magnetospheres

2016
It was not until the dawn of the space age that we discovered that the Earth’s magnetosphere was full of energetic particles. It was therefore reasonable to suppose that all planets with a strong magnetic field would have trapped energetic particles within their magnetosphere.
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