Overview
- Provides a broad overview of magnetic fields in our solar system and the modern methods employed to unravel their complexity
- Results from a research program involving four leading planetary science institutes
- Contributing scientists cover the whole science field with all its ramifications ranging from planetology, geophysics, numerical analysis to mathematics
- Takes a synergistic interdisciplinary approach that combines newly developed tools for data acquisition and analysis, computer simulations of planetary interiors and dynamos, models of solar wind interaction, measurement of ancient terrestrial rocks and meteorites, and laboratory investigations
Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library (ASSL, volume 448)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Earth magnetic field
- planetary dynamo simulations
- planetary interior dynamics
- magnetic instability
- Jupiter magnetosphere
- Saturn magnetosphere
- Cassini results
- Mars magnetic field
- Mars Express
- planetary magnetosphere
- planet-moon interaction
- meteorite impact craters
- piezo-remanence
- secular variation of magnetic field strength
- CHAMP space mission
- SWARM space mission
- numerical modelling of planetary magnetic fields
About this book
This book addresses and reviews many of the still little understood questions related to the processes underlying planetary magnetic fields and their interaction with the solar wind. With focus on research carried out within the German Priority Program ”PlanetMag”, it also provides an overview of the most recent research in the field.
Magnetic fields play an important role in making a planet habitable by protecting the environment from the solar wind. Without the geomagnetic field, for example, life on Earth as we know it would not be possible. And results from recent space missions to Mars and Venus strongly indicate that planetary magnetic fields play a vital role in preventing atmospheric erosion by the solar wind. However, very little is known about the underlying interaction between the solar wind and a planet’s magnetic field.
The book takes a synergistic interdisciplinary approach that combines newly developed tools for data acquisition and analysis,computer simulations of planetary interiors and dynamos, models of solar wind interaction, measurement of ancient terrestrial rocks and meteorites, and laboratory investigations.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Hermann Lühr was Professor of Geophysics at Technical University Braunschweig and Senior Scientist at Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam, Germany. He has been (Co-) PI of several research projects and space missions, served on various committees and has won a series of prestigious prizes. His scientific interests include geomagnetism, magnetospheric/ionospheric physics, plasma physics, current systems, upper atmosphere, space weather, and instrument development.
Johannes Wicht is a research staff member at MPS Göttingen, Germany.
Stuart Gilder is Professor of Geophysics at Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich. Before arriving in Germany he served as Director of the Geomagnetic Observatories of the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France. His research interests mostly focus on paleomagnetism and the effects o
f high pressures on magnetic properties using the diamond anvil cell.Matthias Holschneider is Professor of applied Mathematics at the University of Potsdam, Germany and Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Dynamics of Complex Systems (DYCOS).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Magnetic Fields in the Solar System
Book Subtitle: Planets, Moons and Solar Wind Interactions
Editors: Hermann Lühr, Johannes Wicht, Stuart A. Gilder, Matthias Holschneider
Series Title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64292-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64291-8Published: 22 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87765-5Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64292-5Published: 10 January 2018
Series ISSN: 0067-0057
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7985
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 413
Number of Illustrations: 61 b/w illustrations, 102 illustrations in colour
Topics: Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics), Planetology