SM23D:
Magnetospheres in the Solar System I

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
Chairs:  Xianzhe Jia, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Chris Paranicas, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States
Primary Conveners:  Xianzhe Jia, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Co-conveners:  Chris Paranicas, Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD, United States and George B Hospodarsky, Univ Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Xianzhe Jia, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

1:40 PM
 
Magnetopause Boundary Processes Throughout the Solar System
Adam Masters, Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom
1:58 PM
 
Multi-Scale Kelvin-Helmholtz Vortices Along Mercury’s Magnetopause
Daniel J Gershman1, Jim M Raines2, James A Slavin2, Thomas Zurbuchen3, Torbjorn Sundberg4, Scott A Boardsen5, Brian J Anderson6, Haje Korth7 and Sean C Solomon8, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)Queen Mary University of London, School of Physics and Astronomy, London, United Kingdom, (5)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, 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
2:10 PM
 
MHD-EPIC: Extended Magnetohydrodynamics with Embedded Particle-in-Cell Simulation of Ganymede's Magnetosphere.
Gabor Toth1, Lars K S Daldorff1, Xianzhe Jia2, Tamas I Gombosi3 and Giovanni Lapenta4, (1)Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
2:22 PM
 
The role of plasma/neutral source and loss processes in shaping the giant planet magnetospheres
Peter A Delamere, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
2:40 PM
 
Internally Driven, Dynamical Behaviour of Saturn's Magnetosphere
Nathan Michael Pilkington1,2, Nicholas A Achilleos1,2, Christopher Stephen Arridge2,3, Patrick Guio1,2, Adam Masters4, Nick Sergis5, Andrew J Coates2,3 and Michele Karen Dougherty6, (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, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, London, United Kingdom, (4)Imperial College London, Blackett Laboratory, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (5)Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece, (6)Imperial College London, Blackett Laboratory, London, United Kingdom
2:52 PM
 
Structure and Dynamics of the Sub-corotating Region of Saturn’s Magnetosphere: Cassini Magnetic Field Observations.
Edward J Smith, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Michele Karen Dougherty, Imperial College London, Blackett Laboratory, London, United Kingdom
3:04 PM
 
Morphology of Interchange-Driven Injections in Saturn’s Magnetosphere
Chris Paranicas1, Nick Achilleos2, Maria Andriopoulou3,4, Sarah Victoria Badman5, George B Hospodarsky6, Xianzhe Jia7, Caitriona M Jackman2,8, Krishan K Khurana9, Norbert Krupp3, Philippe Louarn10, Elias Roussos3, Nick Sergis11 and Michelle F Thomsen12, (1)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)University College London, 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, LA1, United Kingdom, (6)Univ Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, (7)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (8)University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (9)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (10)CNRS/IRAP, Toulouse, France, (11)National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, (12)Planetary Science Institute, Los Alamos, NM, United States
3:16 PM
 
Spinning, Breathing, and Flapping: The Changing Size and Shape of Saturn's Middle Magnetosphere
Katherine M Ramer1, Margaret Kivelson1, Nick Sergis2, Krishan K Khurana1, Xianzhe Jia3 and Robert J Strangeway1, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, (3)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
3:28 PM
 
Generation of a global longitudinal asymmetry in Saturn’s magnetosphere
Thomas W Hill, Akshay Jaggi, Richard Wolf and Stanislav Y Sazykin, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States