SM44B:
Magnetospheres in the Outer Solar System I

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Session ID#: 32909

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’s magnetosphere. 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 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.
Primary Convener:  Xianzhe Jia, University of Michigan, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States
Conveners:  Chris Paranicas, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States and George B Hospodarsky, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
Chairs:  George B Hospodarsky, University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States and Xianzhe Jia, University of Michigan, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Xianzhe Jia, University of Michigan, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • P - Planetary Sciences
Index Terms:

5719 Interactions with particles and fields [PLANETARY SCIENCES: FLUID PLANETS]
5737 Magnetospheres [PLANETARY SCIENCES: FLUID PLANETS]
6299 General or miscellaneous [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
7899 General or miscellaneous [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Jupiter’s ionosphere and aurora and their implications for Jupiter’s magnetosphere (Invited) (211494)
Tom Stallard, Northumbria University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom, Henrik Melin, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1, United Kingdom and Rosie Johnson, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
Cross-scale transport processes in the three-dimensional Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (283029)
Peter A Delamere, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Brandon L Burkholder, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States, Xuanye Ma, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Physical Sciences -- Center for Space and Atmospheric Research, Daytona Beach, FL, United States and Katariina Nykyri, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geospace Laboratory, 673, Greenbelt, United States
A Voyager Perspective of Ice Giant Magnetospheres: What Next? (Invited) (247831)
William S Kurth, University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States and George B Hospodarsky, University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States
CHARGED PARTICLE IN-SITU MEASUREMENTS IN THE INNER SATURNIAN MAGNETOSPHERE DURING THE “GRAND FINALE” OF CASSINI IN 2016/2017 (219617)
Norbert Krupp1, Elias Roussos2, Donald G Mitchell3, Peter Kollmann3, Chris Paranicas3, Stamatios Mike Krimigis4, Matthew M Hedman5 and Michele Karen Dougherty6, (1)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, (2)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany, (3)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (4)Academy of Athens, Space, Athens, Greece, (5)University of Idaho, Moscow, United States, (6)Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
Mass loss at Saturn: The contribution of plasmoids (214867)
Margaret Kivelson, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Xianzhe Jia, University of Michigan, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States and Caitriona Mary Jackman, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
Pulling it all together: the self-consistent distribution of neutral tori in Saturn’s Magnetosphere based on all Cassini observations (255781)
Howard Todd Smith, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States and John D Richardson, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States
Low-Frequency Plasma Waves in Saturn's Magnetosphere: A Comprehensive Analysis of Magnetometer Data from the Cassini Era (2004-2017) (209894)
Zachary Christopher Meeks1, Sven Simon2, Slawa Kabanovic1 and Lucas Liuzzo1, (1)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States, (2)Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, United States
Quasi-periodic 1-hour pulsations in the Saturn’s outer magnetosphere (300500)
Liutauras Rusaitis, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Krishan K Khurana, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, Raymond J Walker, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Margaret Kivelson, UCLA, Los Angeles, United States

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