Ionosphere/thermosphere heating determined from dynamic magnetosphere-ionosphere/thermosphere coupling

Inductive magnetosphere–ionosphere coupling

Inductive coupling of a global magnetospheric model to a global ionospheric–thermospheric model is described. Existing schemes based on electrostatic coupling are valid for magnetospheric variability occurring on time scales of order 100 s or longer. The formulation developed here extends the validity of the coupling model to time scales of order 10 s, while retaining the physics of quasi-stati...

Alfvén Wave Heating of the Magnetosphere of Young Stars

Excitation of a Global Alfvén wave (GAW) is proposed as a viable mechanism to explain plasma heating in the magnetosphere of young stars. The wave and basic plasma parameters are compatible with the requirement that the dissipation length of GAWs be comparable to the distance between the shocked region at the star's surface and the truncation region in the accretion disk. A two-fluid magnetohyd...

Magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling currents in Jupiter’s middle magnetosphere: effect of magnetosphere-ionosphere decoupling by field-aligned auroral voltages

We consider the effect of field-aligned voltages on the magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling current system associated with the breakdown of rigid corotation of equatorial plasma in Jupiter’s middle magnetosphere. Previous analyses have assumed perfect mapping of the electric field and flow along equipotential field lines between the equatorial plane and the ionosphere, whereas it has been shown t...

Use of Euler potentials for describing magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling

[1] We present a general formulation of the basic equations of large-scale magnetosphereionosphere coupling in terms of Euler potentials and describe a specific numerical implementation of this formulation in the context of the Rice Convection Model (RCM). When written in terms of Euler potentials, both the Vasyliunas magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling equation and the expression for bounce-aver...

Non-Potential Electric Field Model of Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling