SM23D:
Magnetospheres in the Solar System I

Session ID#: 2132

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
2018 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Xianzhe Jia, University of Michigan, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States and Chris Paranicas, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, United States
Primary Convener:  Xianzhe Jia, University of Michigan, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States
Co-conveners:  Chris Paranicas, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States and George B Hospodarsky, University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Xianzhe Jia, University of Michigan, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • P - Planetary Sciences
Index Terms:

2756 Planetary magnetospheres [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
2799 General or miscellaneous [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
5443 Magnetospheres [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5737 Magnetospheres [PLANETARY SCIENCES: FLUID PLANETS]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Magnetopause Boundary Processes Throughout the Solar System (Invited) (3016)
Adam Masters, Imperial College London, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom
Multi-Scale Kelvin-Helmholtz Vortices Along Mercury’s Magnetopause (12400)
Daniel J Gershman1, Jim M Raines2, James A Slavin3, Thomas Zurbuchen3, Torbjorn Sundberg4, Scott A Boardsen5, Brian J Anderson6, Haje Korth7 and Sean C Solomon8, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (2)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States, (3)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)Queen Mary University of London, School of Physics and Astronomy, London, United Kingdom, (5)NASA GSFC/UMBC, Greenbelt, United States, (6)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (7)The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (8)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
MHD-EPIC: Extended Magnetohydrodynamics with Embedded Particle-in-Cell Simulation of Ganymede's Magnetosphere. (4201)
Gabor Toth1, Lars K S Daldorff2, Xianzhe Jia3, Tamas I Gombosi1 and Giovanni Lapenta4, (1)University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (2)The Catholic University of America, Washington, United States, (3)University of Michigan, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (4)KU Leuven, Mathematics, Leuven, Belgium
The role of plasma/neutral source and loss processes in shaping the giant planet magnetospheres (Invited) (2940)
Peter A Delamere, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, United States
Internally Driven, Dynamical Behaviour of Saturn's Magnetosphere (16615)
Nathan Michael Pilkington1,2, Nicholas A Achilleos3,4, Christopher Stephen Arridge2,5, Patrick Guio2,3, Adam Masters6, Nick Sergis7, Andrew J Coates2,5 and Michele Karen Dougherty8, (1)University College London, London, United Kingdom, (2)The Centre for Planetary Sciences at UCL/Birkbeck, Gower St., London, WC1E 6BT, London, United Kingdom, (3)University College London, Department of Physics and Astronomy, London, United Kingdom, (4)The Centre for Planetary Sciences at UCL/Birkbeck, London, United Kingdom, (5)University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, London, United Kingdom, (6)Imperial College London, Blackett Laboratory, London, United Kingdom, (7)Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece, (8)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Structure and Dynamics of the Sub-corotating Region of Saturn’s Magnetosphere: Cassini Magnetic Field Observations. (13915)
Edward J Smith, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Space and Atmospheric Physics, Pasadena, CA, United States and Michele Karen Dougherty, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Morphology of Interchange-Driven Injections in Saturn’s Magnetosphere (10156)
Chris Paranicas1, Nicholas A Achilleos2, Maria Andriopoulou3,4, Sarah Victoria Badman5, George B Hospodarsky6, Xianzhe Jia7, Caitriona Mary Jackman8,9, Krishan K Khurana10, Norbert Krupp3, Philippe Louarn11, Elias Roussos12, Nick Sergis13 and Michelle F Thomsen14, (1)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, United States, (2)University College London, Department of Physics and Astronomy, London, United Kingdom, (3)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, (4)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (5)University of Lancaster, Lancaster, United Kingdom, (6)University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, (7)University of Michigan, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (8)Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, Ireland, (9)University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (10)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (11)CNRS - Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Toulouse, France, (12)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany, (13)National Observatory of Athens, Institute of Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing, Athens, Greece, (14)Planetary Science Institute, Tuscon, AZ, United States
Spinning, Breathing, and Flapping: The Changing Size and Shape of Saturn's Middle Magnetosphere (8955)
Katherine M Ramer1, Margaret Kivelson2, Nick Sergis3, Krishan K Khurana2, Xianzhe Jia4 and Robert J Strangeway5, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)National Observatory of Athens, Institute of Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing, Athens, Greece, (4)University of Michigan, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (5)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Generation of a global longitudinal asymmetry in Saturn’s magnetosphere (17126)
Thomas W Hill1, Akshay Jaggi1, Richard Wolf2 and Stanislav Y Sazykin2, (1)Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Rice University, Physics and Astronomy Department, Houston, TX, United States