Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Magnetosphere Environment from Solar System Planets/Moons to Exoplanets

  • Chapter
  • First Online:
Characterizing Stellar and Exoplanetary Environments

Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library ((ASSL,volume 411))

Abstract

First we discuss the solar wind plasma interaction with the Solar System planets that have intrinsic magnetic fields : Mercury , Earth , Jupiter , and Saturn are discussed. As a result of such an interaction cavities, which are free from the solar wind plasma and occupied by the planetary magnetic field are created. These cavities are usually called magnetospheres are surrounded and bound by the magnetopause . The magnetopause preserved the planetary magnetic field penetration into the magnetosheath so that its impossible for the magnetosheath plasma flow to penetrate into the magnetosphere. The magnetosheath are placed between the bow shock and the magnetopause. The bow shock forms a boundary against the unshocked super Alvénic plasma flow. As demonstrated by the analysis of the Mercury, Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn magnetopauses, these surfaces can be well described by a paraboloid of revolution with different subsolar distances and flaring angles. Based on this fact an universal model of the planetary magnetosphere can be constructed. We chose the planets in the inner magnetospheres of which the magnetic field vectors have been measured by orbiting spacecraft magnetometers. The proposed models describe the basic physical processes that are responsible for the structure and dynamics of the planetary magnetospheres . Additionally to the inner planetary field the different magnetospheric sources of magnetic field are included in the model. Finally, we discuss how these magnetosphere models can be applied to exoplanets in a comparative way.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
eBook
USD 16.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book
USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Alexeev, I. I., & Shabansky, V. P. (1972). Planetary and Space Science, 20, 117.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Alexeev, I. I. (1978). Gemagnetizm i Aeronomiya, 18 (in Russian); Geomagnetism and Aeronomy, 18, 447 (in English).

    Google Scholar 

  • Alexeev, I. I., Kropotkin, A. P., & Veselovsky, I. S. (1982). Solar Physics, 79, 385.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Alexeev, I. I. (1986). Journal of Geomagnetism and Geoelectricity, 38, 1199.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Alexeev, I. I., & Kalegaev, V. V. (1995). Journal of Geophysical Research, 100, 267.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Alexeev, I. I., & Bobrovnikov, S. Y. (1997). Geomagnetizm i Aeronomiya, 37(6), 24.

    Google Scholar 

  • Alexeev, I. I., Belenkaya, E. S., & Sibeck, D. G. (1998), Geomagnetizm i Aeronomiya, 38(1), 9.

    Google Scholar 

  • Alexeev, I. I., Sibeck, D. G., & Bobrovnikov, S. Y. (1998). Journal of Geophysical Research, 103(A4), 6675.

    Google Scholar 

  • Alexeev, I. I., Belenkaya, E. S., Bobrovnikov, S. Y., & Kalegaev, V. V. (2003). Space Science Reviews, 107, 7.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Alexeev, I. I., & Belenkaya, E. S. (2005). Annals of Geophysics, 23, 809.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Alexeev, I. I., Kalegaev, V. V., Belenkaya, E. S., Bobrovnikov, S. Y., Bunce, E. J., Cowley, S. W. H., & Nichols J. D. (2006). Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L08101.

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Alexeev, I. I., Belenkaya, E. S., Slavin, J. A., Korth, H., Erson, B. J., Baker, D. N., Boardsen, S. A., Johnson, C. L., Purucker, M. E., Sarantos, M., & Solomon, S. C. (2010). Icarus, 209, 23.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Alexeev, I. I., Belenkaya, E. S., Bobrovnikov, S. Y., Slavin, & J. A., Sarantos, M. (2008). Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, A12210.

    Google Scholar 

  • Arridge, C. S., Achilleos, N., Dougherty, M. K., Khurana, K. K., Russell, C. T. (2006). Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, A11227.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Belenkaya, E. S. (2004). Planetary and Space Science, 52, 499.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Belenkaya, E. S., Bobrovnikov, S. Y., Alexeev, I. I., Kalegaev, V. V., & Cowley, S. W. H. (2005). Planetary and Space Science, 53, 863.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Belenkaya, E. S., Alexeev, I. I., Kalegaev, V. V., & Blokhina, M. S. (2006). Annals of Geophysics, 24, 1145.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Belenkaya, E. S., Cowley, S. W. H., & Alexeev, I. I. (2006). Annals of Geophysics, 24, 1649.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Chapman, S., & Ferraro, V. C. A. (1931). Journal of Geophysical Research, 36, 77.

    Article  ADS  MATH  Google Scholar 

  • Coroniti, F. V., & Kennel, C. F. (1977). Geophysical Research Letters, 4, 211.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Cowley, S. W. H., & Bunce, E. J. (2003). Planetary and Space Science, 51, 57.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Fairfield, D. H. (1971). Journal of Geophysical Research, 76, 6700.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Fossati, L., Haswell, C. A., Linsky, J. L., & Kislyakova, K. G. (2014). H. Lammer & M. L. Khodachenko (Eds.), Characterizing stellar exoplanetary environments (pp. 59). Heidelberg/ New York: Springer.

    Google Scholar 

  • García Mun̂oz, A. (2007). Planetary and Space Science, 55, 1426.

    Google Scholar 

  • Greene, J. M., & Miller, R. L. (1994). Planetary and Space Science, 42, 895.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Grießmeier, J.-M. (2014). H. Lammer & M. L. Khodachenko (Eds.), Characterizing stellar exoplanetary environments (pp. 213). Heidelberg/New York: Springer.

    Google Scholar 

  • Herbert, F. (2009). Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, A11206.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Hill, T. W. (1979). Journal of Geophysical Research, 84, 6554.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Huddleston, D. E., Russel, C. T., Kivelson, M. G., Khurana, K. K., & Bennet, L. (1998). Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, 20075.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Ip, W.-H., Kopp, A., & Hu, J.-H. (2004). Astrophysical Journal, 602, L53.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Johansson, E. P. G., Bagdonat, T., & Motschmann, U. (2009). Astronomy and Astrophysics, 496, 869.

    Article  ADS  MATH  Google Scholar 

  • Joy, S. P., Kivelson, M. G., Walker, R. J., Khurana, K. K., Russell, C. T., & Ogino, T. (2002). Journal of Geophysical Research, 107, 1309.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Johnson, C. L., Purucker, M. E., Korth, H., Erson, B. J., Winslow, R. M., Al Asad, M. M. H., Slavin, J. A., Alexeev, I. I., Phillips, R. J., Zuber, M. T., & Solomon, S. C. (2012). Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, E00L14.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kanani, S. J., Arridge, C. S., Jones, G. H., Fazakerley, A. N., Mcrews, H. J., Sergis, N., Krimigis, S. M., Dougherty, M. K., Coates, A. J., Young, D. T., Hansen, K. C., & Krupp, N. (2010). Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, A06207.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Kislyakova, K. G., Holmström, M., Lammer, H.,& Erkaev, N. V. (2014). H. Lammer, & M. L. Khodachenko (Eds.), Characterizing stellar exoplanetary environments (pp. 137). Heidelberg/ New York: Springer.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kivelson, M. G., & Southwood, D. J. (2003). Planetary and Space Science, 51, 891.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Khodachenko, M. L., Alexeev, I., Belenkaya, E., Lammer, H., Grießmeier, J.-M., Leitzinger, M., Odert, P., Zaqarashvili, T., & Rucker, H. O. (2012). Astrophysical Journal, 744(70), 16pp

    Google Scholar 

  • Landau, L. D., & Lifshitz E. M. (1966). Fluid Mechanics (Volume 6 of Course of Theoretical Physics, 3rd rev. English ed., Chapter 13, paragraph 114, p 458, Eq. (114.1)). Oxford: Pergamon Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Landau, L. D. & Lifshitz E. M. (1966). Fluid Mechanics, Third revised English edition ( Volume 6 of Course of Theoretical Physics ) Pergamon Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lipatov, A. S., Motschmann, U., Bagdonat, T., & Grießmeier, J.-M. (2005). Planetary and Space Science, 53, 423.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Mestel, L. (1968). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 138, 359.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Preusse, S., Kopp, A., Büchner, J., & Motschmann, U. (2007). Planetary and Space Science, 55, 589.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Russell, C. T. (1977). Geophysical Research Letters, 4, 387.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Shematovich, V. I., Bisikalo, D. V., & Dmitry, E. I. (2014). H. Lammer & M. L. Khodachenko (Eds.), Characterizing stellar exoplanetary environments (pp. 105). Heidelberg/New York: Springer.

    Google Scholar 

  • Shue, J.-H., Song, P., Russell, C. T., Steinberg, J. T., Chao, J. K., Zastenker, G., Vaisberg, O. L., Kokubun, S., Singer, H. J., Detman, T. R., & Kawano, H. (1998). Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, 17961.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Slavin, J. A., & Holzer, R. E. (1979). Journal of Geophysical Research, 84, 2076.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Slavin, J. A., Smith, E. J., Spreiter, J. R., & Stahara, S. S. (1985). Journal of Geophysical Research, 90, 6275.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Slavin, J. A., Acuña, M. H., Erson, B. J., Baker, D. N., Benna, M., Boardsen, S. A., Gloeckler, G., Gold, R. E., Ho, G. C., Korth, H., Krimigis, S. M., McNutt, R. L., Raines, J. M., Sarantos, M., Schriver, D., Solomon, S. C., Trávníček, P., & Zurbuchen, T. H. (2009). Science, 324, 606.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Spreiter, J. R., Summers, A. L., & Alksne, A. Y. (1966). Hydromagnetic flow around the magnetosphere. Planetary and Space Science, 14, 223.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Stevenson, D. J. (1983). Reports on Progress in Physics, 46, 555.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Vasyliunas, V. M. (1983). A. J. Dessler (Ed.) Physics of the jovian magnetosphere (p. 395). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Yelle, R. V. (2004). Icarus, 170, 167.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgements

The authors acknowledge the support by the International Space Science Institute (ISSI) in Bern, Switzerland and the ISSI team Characterizing stellar- and exoplanetary environments. The authors acknowledge the support by the Austrian Research Foundation FWF NFN project S116 ‘Pathways to Habitability: From Disks to Active Stars, Planets and Life’, and the related FWF NFN subproject, S116 606-N16 ‘Magnetospheric Electrodynamics of Exoplanets’. This work was also supported by the FWF project P21197-N16. Finally, the authors are thankful to the European FP7 project IMPEx (No. 262863).

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Scobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, 1(2), Moscow, 119992, Russian Federation

    Igor I. Alexeev, Maria S. Grygoryan, Elena S. Belenkaya, Vladimir V. Kalegaev & Maxim Khodachenko

  2. Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, A-8042, Austria

    Maxim Khodachenko

Authors
  1. Igor I. Alexeev
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Maria S. Grygoryan
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Elena S. Belenkaya
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Vladimir V. Kalegaev
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. Maxim Khodachenko
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Igor I. Alexeev .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria

    Helmut Lammer

  2. Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria

    Maxim Khodachenko

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2015 Springer International Publishing Switzerland

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Alexeev, I.I., Grygoryan, M.S., Belenkaya, E.S., Kalegaev, V.V., Khodachenko, M. (2015). Magnetosphere Environment from Solar System Planets/Moons to Exoplanets. In: Lammer, H., Khodachenko, M. (eds) Characterizing Stellar and Exoplanetary Environments. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 411. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09749-7_10

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation