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Magnetospheric Plasma Physics: The Impact of Jim Dungey's Research (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
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Magnetospheric Plasma Physics: The Impact of Jim Dungey's Research (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, 41
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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.
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