{"id":7,"date":"2012-11-14T08:12:57","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T08:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.issibern.ch\/workshops\/giantplanet\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2012-11-14T08:12:57","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T08:12:57","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.issibern.ch\/workshops\/giantplanet\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Planet Magnetodiscs and Aurorae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Description\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Magnetodiscs are large current sheets surrounding Jupiter and Saturn that are filled with\u00a0plasma principally originating in the natural satellites. They are also solar system analogues\u00a0for astrophysical discs. Magnetodiscs are special features of the fast rotating giant planets, a\u00a0special feature of rotationally driven magnetospheres. They are driven by variability in their\u00a0plasma sources and by the solar wind. Auroral signatures in the optical and radio allow a\u00a0diagnostic of these dynamical processes and enable the visualisation of these large plasma and\u00a0field structures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Objectives<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The objective of this workshop is to address outstanding issues in the structure and\u00a0dynamics of magnetodiscs using a comparative approach (see details under topics):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Review current understanding of magnetodiscs and auroral responses to magnetodisc\u00a0dynamics.<\/li>\n<li>Characterise and understand radial plasma transport in magnetodiscs.<\/li>\n<li>Determine how magnetic reconnection works in magnetodiscs, what are the effects on\u00a0plasma transport, and what are the associated auroral responses to magnetic\u00a0reconnection.<\/li>\n<li>Characterise how the solar wind influences magnetodiscs and the auroral responses to\u00a0solar wind-driven dynamics.<\/li>\n<li>Characterise the spectral and spatial properties of auroral emissions produced by\u00a0magnetodisc dynamics \u2013 are there significant differences between solar wind- and\u00a0internally-driven dynamics?<\/li>\n<li>Determine the sources of local-time asymmetries in magnetodiscs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.issibern.ch\/workshops\/giantplanet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2012\/11\/description.pdf\">Description of the Europlanet ISSI Workshop<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description\u00a0 Magnetodiscs are large current sheets surrounding Jupiter and Saturn that are filled with\u00a0plasma principally originating in the natural satellites. They are also solar system analogues\u00a0for astrophysical discs. Magnetodiscs are special features of the fast rotating giant planets, a\u00a0special feature &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.issibern.ch\/workshops\/giantplanet\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.issibern.ch\/workshops\/giantplanet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.issibern.ch\/workshops\/giantplanet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.issibern.ch\/workshops\/giantplanet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.issibern.ch\/workshops\/giantplanet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.issibern.ch\/workshops\/giantplanet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.issibern.ch\/workshops\/giantplanet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.issibern.ch\/workshops\/giantplanet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}