Magnetic Fields in the Solar System

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. General Introduction and Scientific Summary of the German Priority Program “PlanetMag”

   • Hermann Lühr, Johannes Wicht, Stuart A. Gilder, Matthias Holschneider

   Pages 1-6

3. Modeling the Interior Dynamics of Gas Planets

   • Johannes Wicht, Martin French, Stephan Stellmach, Nadine Nettelmann, Thomas Gastine, Lucia Duarte et al.

   Pages 7-81

4. Global Geomagnetic Field Reconstructions from Centuries to Excursions

   • Monika Korte, Maxwell Brown, Ute Frank, Robin Senftleben, Norbert Nowaczyk

   Pages 83-110

5. Interannual Fluctuations of the Core Angular Momentum Inferred from Geomagnetic Field Models

   • Seiki Asari, Ingo Wardinski

   Pages 111-123

6. Laboratory Experiments and Numerical Simulations on Magnetic Instabilities

   • Frank Stefani, Marcus Gellert, Christoph Kasprzyk, Alejandro Paredes, Günther Rüdiger, Martin Seilmayer

   Pages 125-152

7. Modeling Magnetospheric Fields in the Jupiter System

   • Joachim Saur, Emmanuel Chané, Oliver Hartkorn

   Pages 153-182

8. Empirical Modeling of Planetary Magnetospheres in Response to Solar Wind Dynamics Using EOF Analysis and Multivariate Linear Regression

   • Maosheng He, Joachim Vogt

   Pages 183-200

9. Kinetic Simulations of Electron Acceleration at Mercury

   • Jörg Büchner, Patrick Kilian, Patricio A. Muñoz, Felix Spanier, Fabien Widmer, Xiaowei Zhou et al.

   Pages 201-240

10. Physical Processes in the Dusty Plasma of the Enceladus Plume

    • Victoria Yaroshenko, Patrick Meier, Hermann Lühr, Uwe Motschmann

    Pages 241-262

11. Modeling of the Ionospheric Current System and Calculating Its Contribution to the Earth’s Magnetic Field

    • Boris E. Prokhorov, Matthias Förster, Vincent Lesur, Alexander A. Namgaladze, Matthias Holschneider, Claudia Stolle

    Pages 263-292

12. Climatology of Air Upwelling and Vertical Plasma Flow in the Terrestrial Cusp Region: Seasonal and IMF-Dependent Processes

    • Guram N. Kervalishvili, Hermann Lühr

    Pages 293-329

13. Mars’ Crustal Magnetic Field

    • Achim Morschhauser, Foteini Vervelidou, Paul Thomas, Matthias Grott, Vincent Lesur, Stuart A. Gilder

    Pages 331-356

14. Magnetic Signatures of Terrestrial Meteorite Impact Craters: A Summary

    • Stuart A. Gilder, Jean Pohl, Michael Eitel

    Pages 357-382

15. Magnetic Properties of the Iron–Nickel System: Pressure, Composition, and Grain Size

    • Michael Wack, Michael Volk, Qingguo Wei

    Pages 383-406

16. Back Matter

    Pages 407-413

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This book addresses and reviews many of the still little understood questions related to the processes underlying planetary magnetic fields and their interaction with the solar wind. With focus on research carried out within the German Priority Program ”PlanetMag”, it also provides an overview of the most recent research in the field.

Magnetic fields play an important role in making a planet habitable by protecting the environment from the solar wind. Without the geomagnetic field, for example, life on Earth as we know it would not be possible. And results from recent space missions to Mars and Venus strongly indicate that planetary magnetic fields play a vital role in preventing atmospheric erosion by the solar wind. However, very little is known about the underlying interaction between the solar wind and a planet’s magnetic field.

The book takes a synergistic interdisciplinary approach that combines newly developed tools for data acquisition and analysis,computer simulations of planetary interiors and dynamos, models of solar wind interaction, measurement of ancient terrestrial rocks and meteorites, and laboratory investigations.

• Earth magnetic field
• planetary dynamo simulations
• planetary interior dynamics
• magnetic instability
• Jupiter magnetosphere
• Saturn magnetosphere
• Cassini results
• Mars magnetic field
• Mars Express
• planetary magnetosphere
• planet-moon interaction
• meteorite impact craters
• piezo-remanence
• secular variation of magnetic field strength
• CHAMP space mission
• SWARM space mission
• numerical modelling of planetary magnetic fields

“This book summarizes work done in the programme ‘PlanetMag’, sponsored by a German research foundation. It discusses observation and modelling of magnetic fields, or processes strongly influenced by magnetism, within different environments in the Solar System. … I would recommend this book as a well-referenced and up-to-date summary of research related to planetary magnetism and magnetosphers.” (Nick Achilleos, The Observatory, Vol. 139 (1268), February, 2019)

• Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam, Germany

  Hermann Lühr

• Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany

  Johannes Wicht

• Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München, Germany

  Stuart A. Gilder

• Institut für Mathematik, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

  Matthias Holschneider

Hermann Lühr was Professor of Geophysics at Technical University Braunschweig and Senior Scientist at Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam, Germany. He has been (Co-) PI of several research projects and space missions, served on various committees and has won a series of prestigious prizes. His scientific interests include geomagnetism, magnetospheric/ionospheric physics, plasma physics, current systems, upper atmosphere, space weather, and  instrument development. 

Johannes Wicht is a research staff member at MPS Göttingen, Germany. 

Stuart Gilder is Professor of Geophysics at Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich. Before arriving in Germany he served as Director of the Geomagnetic Observatories of the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France. His research interests mostly focus on paleomagnetism and the effects o

f high pressures on magnetic properties using the diamond anvil cell.

Matthias Holschneider is Professor of applied Mathematics at the University of Potsdam, Germany and Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Dynamics of Complex Systems (DYCOS).

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