Plasma Sources of Solar System Magnetospheres

The Workshop is designed to review in depth our present state of knowledge concerning the major source processes for the plasma populations, which we find in the magnetospheres planets with intrinsic dynamo fields throughout the solar system, from Mercury to Earth and further out to the giant gas planets. The main goal of this ISSI Workshop is to discuss for each planet the primary plasma sources, like planetary ionospheres (surface in case of Mercury), moons and rings, plus plasma entry from the solar wind. Further discussions will deal with major acceleration processes and sinks, which are relevant to explain the final magnetospheric plasma populations in terms of composition and energy distribution. Finally the workshop will try to address common processes, which may be universal to solar system magnetospheres.

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