Turbulent plasmas generate a multitude of thin current structures that can be sites for
magnetic reconnection. The Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission has recently …

We investigate spatial and temporal scales at which wave‐particle interaction of Alfvén
waves occurs in Jupiter's magnetosphere. We consider electrons, protons, and oxygen ions …

Discs of plasma around giant planets are natural laboratories that contain within
mechanisms of transferring and keeping energy into the plasma and magnetic field system …

Understanding the physical mechanisms responsible for the cross‐scale energy transport
and plasma heating from solar wind into the Earth's magnetosphere is of fundamental …

The ion temperature of the magnetosphere of Jupiter derived from Galileo PLS data was
observed to increase by about an order of magnitude from 10 to 40 Jupiter radii. This …

One of the grand challenge problems of the giant planet magnetospheres is the issue of
nonadiabatic plasma heating. Simple turbulent heating models consider the energy cascade …

Observations from various missions to Jupiter and Saturn showed that temperature of heavy-
ion plasma contained in expanding discs around planets is increasing with radial distance …

The magnetospheres of the outer planets exhibit turbulent phenomena in an environment
which is qualitatively different compared to the solar wind or the interstellar medium. The key …

For Cassini magnetopause encounters, we analyse plasma and magnetic fields. The
boundary can be unstable to the Kelvin–Helmholtz instability (KHI), which can drive large …

The temperatures of ions in the magnetospheres of Jupiter and Saturn were observed to
increase substantially from about 10 to 30 planet radii. Different heating mechanisms have …