| Session Details | |
| Section | ST - Solar & Terrestrial Sciences |
| Session Title | General session on the magnetosphere: emphasis on the dynamics of inner/outer frontiers of planets |
| Main Convener | Dr. Masahito Nose (Kyoto University, Japan) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Bertrand Lembege (National Centre for Scientific Research, France) Dr. Gurbax Lakhina (Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, India) Dr. Hiroshi Hasegawa (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan) Dr. Nanan Balan (National Institute for Space Research, Brazil) |
| Session Description | As the solar wind interacts with the environment of a planet, different frontiers (internal/external) form through which intricate exchanges of energy and momentum take place. The features and the dynamics of these frontiers vary according to the magnetized/unmagnetized environment of the planet. These exchanges are established over quite different spatial and temporal scales via different processes. Different approaches are necessary from magnetohydrodynamics to kinetic treatments in order to identify these processes and to analyse their spatial/temporal impacts on the frontiers dynamics. The aim of this session is to focus on advances made recently on these processes. Different frontiers will be considered 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 satellite missions such as DOUBLE STAR, CLUSTER, THEMIS, MMS (for the terrestrial magnetosphere) and other missions as CASSINI, VENUS EXPRESS, KAGUYA (and more recently MAVEN) provided a large coverage of information on a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. Papers focussed on advances developed for preparing new challenging spacecraft missions such as BEPI-COLOMBO and JUICE are also very welcome. More generally, particular interest will be given to the comparison of inner/outer frontiers of magnetized/unmagnetized planets (based both on mono- and multi-points measurements) and to related simulation works. All works based on experimental data analysis, theoretical models and numerical simulations are very welcome. |