Magnetotails in the Solar System (eBook)

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

Preface
Andreas Keiling, Caitríona Jackman, and Peter Delamereix

Section I: Introduction

1 Magnetotail: Unsolved Fundamental Problem of Magnetospheric Physics
Vytenis M Vasyliu¯nas 3

Section II: Tutorials

2 Mercury's Magnetotail
T Sundberg and J A Slavin 23

3 Magnetotails of Mars and Venus
E Dubinin and M Fraenz 43

4 Earth's Magnetotail
Robert L McPherron 61

5 Jupiter's Magnetotail
Norbert Krupp , Elena Kronberg , and Aikaterini Radioti 85

6 Saturn's Magnetotail
Caitríona M Jackman 99

7 Magnetotails of Uranus and Neptune
C S Arridge 119

8 Satellite Magnetotails
Xianzhe Jia 135

9 Moon's Plasma Wake
J S Halekas, D A Brain and M Holmström 149

10 Physics of Cometary Magnetospheres
Tamas I Gombosi 169

11 Heliotail
David J McComas 189

Section III: Specialized Topics

12 Formation of Magnetotails: Fast and Slow Rotators Compared
D J Southwood 199

13 Solar Wind Interaction with Giant Magnetospheres and Earth's Magnetosphere
P A Delamere 217

14 Solar Wind Entry Into and Transport Within Planetary Magnetotails
Simon Wing and Jay R Johnson 235

15 Magnetic Reconnection in Different Environments: Similarities and Differences
Michael Hesse, Nicolas Aunai, Masha Kuznetsova, Seiji Zenitani, and Joachim Birn 259

16 Origin and Evolution of Plasmoids and Flux Ropes in the Magnetotails of Earth and Mars
J P Eastwood and S A Kiehas 269

17 Current Sheets Formation in Planetary Magnetotail
Antonius Otto, Min-Shiu Hsieh, and Fred Hall IV 289

18 Substorms: Plasma and Magnetic Flux Transport from Magnetic Tail into Magnetosphere
Gerhard Haerendel 307

19 Injection, Interchange, and Reconnection: Energetic Particle Observations in Saturn's Magnetosphere
D 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 327

20 Radiation Belt Electron Acceleration and Role of Magnetotail
Geoffrey D Reeves 345

21 Substorm Current Wedge at Earth and Mercury
L Kepko, K-H Glassmeier, J A Slavin, and T Sundberg 361

22 Review of Global Simulation Studies of Effect of Ionospheric Outflow on Magnetosphere-Ionosphere System Dynamics
M Wiltberger 373

Index 393