Editors:
- Serves as good background reading for modern magentospheric physics
- Reviews the scientific contributions of James W. Dungey, a pioneer in the field of space plasma physics
- Published under the auspices of the Royal
- Astronomical Society
Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings (ASSSP, volume 41)
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Table of contents (12 papers)
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Front Matter
About this book
This book makes good background reading for much of modern magnetospheric physics. Its origin was a Festspiel for Professor Jim Dungey, former professor in the Physics Department at Imperial College on the occasion of his 90th birthday, 30 January 2013. Remarkably, although he retired 30 years ago, his pioneering and, often, maverick work in the 50’s through to the 70’s on solar terrestrial physics is probably more widely appreciated today than when he retired.
Dungey was a theoretical plasma physicist. The book covers how his reconnection model of the magnetosphere evolved to become the standard model of solar-terrestrial coupling. Dungey’s open magnetosphere model now underpins a holistic picture explaining not only the magnetic and plasma structure of the magnetosphere, but also its dynamics which can be monitored in real time. The book also shows how modern day simulation of solar terrestrial coupling can reproduce the real time evolution of the solar terrestrial system in ways undreamt of in 1961 when Dungey’s epoch-making paper was published.
Further contributions on current Earth magnetosphere research and space plasma physics included in this book show how Dungey’s basic ideas have remained explanative 50 years on. But the Festspiel also introduced some advances that possibly Dungey had not foreseen. One of the contributions presented in this book is on the variety of magnetospheres of the solar system which have been seen directly during the space age,discussing the variations in spatial scale and reconnection time scale and comparing them in respect of Earth, Mercury, the
giant planets as well as Ganymede.Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
Stanley W. H. Cowley FRS
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Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
David Southwood
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St. Edmund's College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Simon Mitton
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Magnetospheric Plasma Physics: The Impact of Jim Dungey’s Research
Editors: Stanley W. H. Cowley FRS, David Southwood, Simon Mitton
Series Title: Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18359-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-18358-9Published: 29 August 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36789-7Published: 22 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-18359-6Published: 20 August 2015
Series ISSN: 1570-6591
Series E-ISSN: 1570-6605
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 271
Number of Illustrations: 49 b/w illustrations, 56 illustrations in colour
Topics: Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics), Geophysics/Geodesy, Plasma Physics