Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences (Mar 2024)
Science return of probing magnetospheric systems of ice giants
- Xin Cao,
- Xiangning Chu,
- Hsiang-Wen Hsu,
- Hao Cao,
- Weijie Sun,
- Lucas Liuzzo,
- Jasper Halekas,
- Carol Paty,
- Feng Chu,
- Omakshi Agiwal,
- Lauren Blum,
- Frank Crary,
- Ian J. Cohen,
- Peter Delamere,
- Mark Hofstadter,
- George Hospodarsky,
- Cooper John,
- Peter Kollmann,
- Elena Kronberg,
- William Kurth,
- Laurent Lamy,
- Laurent Lamy,
- Dong Lin,
- Wen Li,
- Xuanye Ma,
- David Malaspina,
- David Malaspina,
- Michiko Morooka,
- Tom Nordheim,
- Frank Postberg,
- Andrew Poppe,
- Cartwright Richard,
- Suranga Ruhunusiri,
- Krista Soderlund,
- James O'Donoghue,
- Ferdinand Plaschke
Affiliations
- Xin Cao
- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
- Xiangning Chu
- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
- Hsiang-Wen Hsu
- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
- Hao Cao
- University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
- Weijie Sun
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
- Lucas Liuzzo
- SSL, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
- Jasper Halekas
- University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
- Carol Paty
- University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
- Feng Chu
- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
- Omakshi Agiwal
- Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
- Lauren Blum
- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
- Frank Crary
- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
- Ian J. Cohen
- APL, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
- Peter Delamere
- 0University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
- Mark Hofstadter
- 1Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
- George Hospodarsky
- University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
- Cooper John
- 2NASA/GSFC, Washington, DC, United States
- Peter Kollmann
- APL, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
- Elena Kronberg
- 3Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Ingolstadt, Germany
- William Kurth
- University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
- Laurent Lamy
- 4LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris, Meudon, France
- Laurent Lamy
- 5Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, CNES, LAM, Marseille, France
- Dong Lin
- 6National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
- Wen Li
- Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
- Xuanye Ma
- 7Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, United States
- David Malaspina
- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
- David Malaspina
- 8Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences Department, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
- Michiko Morooka
- 9Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Kiruna, Sweden
- Tom Nordheim
- 1Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
- Frank Postberg
- 0Freie Universitaet Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Andrew Poppe
- SSL, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
- Cartwright Richard
- 1SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA, United States
- Suranga Ruhunusiri
- University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
- Krista Soderlund
- 2University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
- James O'Donoghue
- 3Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Tokyo, Japan
- Ferdinand Plaschke
- 4Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fspas.2024.1203705
- Journal volume & issue
-
Vol. 11
Abstract
The magnetospheric systems of ice giants, as the ideal and the unique template of a typical class of exoplanets, have not been sufficiently studied in the past decade. The complexity of these asymmetric and extremely dynamic magnetospheres provides us a great chance to systematically investigate the general mechanism of driving the magnetospheres of such common exoplanets in the Universe, and the key factors of influencing the global and local magnetospheric structures of this type of planets. In this paper, we discuss the science return of probing magnetospheric systems of ice giants for the future missions, throughout different magnetospheric regions, across from the interaction with upstream solar wind to the downstream region of the magnetotail. We emphasize the importance of detecting the magnetospheric systems of ice giants in the next decades, which enables us to deeply understand the space enviroNMent and habitability of not only the ice giants themselves but also the analogous exoplanets which are widely distributed in the Universe.
Keywords
