| Session Details | |
| Section | ST - Solar & Terrestrial Sciences |
| Session Title | Structures and Dynamics of the Inner/outer Frontiers of Terrestrial Magnetosphere and of Magnetized /Unmagnetized Planets |
| Main Convener | Dr. Bertrand Lembege (LATMOS/IPSL/UVSQ/CNRS, France) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Gurbax Lakhina (Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, New Panvel (W), India) Dr. Iku Shinohara (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan) |
| Session Description | Natural frontiers of magnetized and unmagnetized planets are important sites where energy and momenta exchanges take place via intricated solar wind -magnetosphere interactions. Both inner and outer frontiers are concerned and play a key role in these exchanges. These exchanges establish over quite different spatial and temporal scales via different processes and raise up major questions under investigation. Different approaches are necessary from magnetohydrodynamics to kinetic approaches. The difficulties consist (i) in identifying these processes and (ii) in analysing their spatial and temporal impacts on the frontiers dynamics itself. The aim of this session is to focuss on advances obtained recently on these processes based on experimental observations, theory and numerical simulations. A particular emphasis will be given both on outer and inner frontiers such as the shock and foreshock areas, the magnetosheath, the magnetopause, the polar cusp, the plasma depletion layer, the nearby/far magnetotail, the plasma and neutral sheets, and the radiation belts. Multi satelites missions such as DOUBLE STAR, CLUSTER, THEMIS and others have provided a large coverage of informations on a wide range of spatial and temporal scales for the terrestrial environment. Papers focussed on advances developped for preparing new challenging multispacecrafts missions such as MMS and/or EIDOSCOPE are also very welcome. Comparison between experimental and/or simulation results obtained/expected on frontiers at the Earth (based both on mono- and multi-points measurements) and at other planetary magnetospheres (such the preparation of BEPI-COLOMBO) is also strongly encouraged. More generally, particular interest will be also given to the comparison of inner/outer frontiers of magnetized/unmagnetized planets (observations from CASSINI, VEX and KAGUYA) and to related simulation works. All works based on experimental data analysis, theoretical models and numerical simulations are very welcome. |