SM024
Magnetospheres in the Outer Solar System
Magnetospheres in the Outer Solar System
Session ID#: 72721
Session Description:
Magnetospheres in the outer solar system have unique characteristics due to factors such as satellite sources of plasma, circumplanetary neutral tori, and rapid planetary rotation. This session invites submissions covering the structure and dynamics of the magnetospheres of the giant planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) as well as Ganymede. Papers on magnetospheric and auroral processes including magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling, plasma transport, tail dynamics, rotational modulations, magnetospheric boundaries, and the role of the solar wind are consistent with our session themes. We particularly encourage submissions that compare the giant planet magnetospheres to one another, or compare them to those of terrestrial planets. The session will be an ideal forum for the discussion of recent advances in our understanding of all these systems enabled by in-situ and remote observations as well as theoretical and numerical modeling, and relevant to a number of ongoing and future planetary missions to the outer solar system.
Co-Organized:
- P - Planetary Sciences
Index Terms:
2756 Planetary magnetospheres [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
6220 Jupiter [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
6222 Ganymede [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
6275 Saturn [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
Primary Convener: Xianzhe Jia, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Conveners: Chris Paranicas, Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD, United States and George B Hospodarsky, University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States
Primary Liaison: Xianzhe Jia, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
See more of: SPA-Magnetospheric Physics
