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Open AccessThe Electric and Magnetic Fields Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFISIS): Science, Data, and Usage Best Practices
We provide a post-mission assessment of the science and data from the Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFISIS) investigation on the NASA Van Allen Probes mission. An overvi...
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Open AccessFuture Exploration of the Outer Heliosphere and Very Local Interstellar Medium by Interstellar Probe
A detailed overview of the knowledge gaps in our understanding of the heliospheric interaction with the largely unexplored Very Local Interstellar Medium (VLISM) are provided along with predictions of with the...
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Open AccessThe Van Allen Probes Electric Field and Waves Instrument: Science Results, Measurements, and Access to Data
The Van Allen Probes Electric Fields and Waves (EFW) instrument provided measurements of electric fields and spacecraft floating potentials over a wide dynamic range from DC to 6.5 kHz near the equatorial plan...
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Open AccessObservations of the Outer Heliosphere, Heliosheath, and Interstellar Medium
The Voyager spacecraft have left the heliosphere and entered the interstellar medium, making the first observations of the termination shock, heliosheath, and heliopause. New Horizons is observing the solar wi...
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Open AccessShocks in the Very Local Interstellar Medium
Large-scale disturbances generated by the Sun’s dynamics first propagate through the heliosphere, influence the heliosphere’s outer boundaries, and then traverse and modify the very local interstellar medium (...
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Open AccessOxygen torus and its coincidence with EMIC wave in the deep inner magnetosphere: Van Allen Probe B and Arase observations
We investigate the longitudinal structure of the oxygen torus in the inner magnetosphere for a specific event found on 12 September 2017, using simultaneous observations from the Van Allen Probe B and Arase sa...
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Plasma densities near and beyond the heliopause from the Voyager 1 and 2 plasma wave instruments
The heliopause is the boundary between the hot heliospheric (solar wind) plasma and the relatively cold interstellar plasma. Pressure balance considerations show that there should be a large (factor of 20 to 5...
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Open AccessFormation of electron radiation belts at Saturn by Z-mode wave acceleration
At Saturn electrons are trapped in the planet’s magnetic field and accelerated to relativistic energies to form the radiation belts, but how this dramatic increase in electron energy occurs is still unknown. U...
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Magnetospheric Science Objectives of the Juno Mission
In July 2016, NASA’s Juno mission becomes the first spacecraft to enter polar orbit of Jupiter and venture deep into unexplored polar territories of the magnetosphere. Focusing on these polar regions, we review c...
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Open AccessThe Juno Waves Investigation
Jupiter is the source of the strongest planetary radio emissions in the solar system. Variations in these emissions are symptomatic of the dynamics of Jupiter’s magnetosphere and some have been directly associ...
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Discrete and broadband electron acceleration in Jupiter’s powerful aurora
The process that generates Earth’s most intense aurora is found to occur at Jupiter, but is of only secondary importance in generating Jupiter’s much more powerful aurora.
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The Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFISIS) on RBSP
The Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument and Integrated Science (EMFISIS) investigation on the NASA Radiation Belt Storm Probes (now named the Van Allen Probes) mission provides key wave and very low frequen...
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Rapid local acceleration of relativistic radiation-belt electrons by magnetospheric chorus
High-resolution measurements of electrons obtained by satellite during the geomagnetic storm of 9 October 2012 together with a data-driven global wave model are analysed to show that scattering by a magnetosph...
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Open AccessThe Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFISIS) on RBSP
The Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument and Integrated Science (EMFISIS) investigation on the NASA Radiation Belt Storm Probes (now named the Van Allen Probes) mission provides key wave and very low frequen...
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Map** Magnetospheric Equatorial Regions at Saturn from Cassini Prime Mission Observations
Saturn’s rich magnetospheric environment is unique in the solar system, with a large number of active magnetospheric processes and phenomena. Observations of this environment from the Cassini spacecraft has en...
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A giant thunderstorm on Saturn
Six Great White Spot (GWS) events have been observed in the atmosphere of Saturn since 1876. These giant convective storms occur roughly once every Saturnian year (equal to 29.5 Earth years). The sixth GWS eru...
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Auroral Processes
Cassini has afforded a number of unique opportunities to understand auroral processes at Saturn and to highlight both differences and similarities with auroral physics at both Earth and Jupiter. A number of ca...
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Intense plasma waves at and near the solar wind termination shock
On 30 August 2007 Voyager 2 began to cross the termination shock, a boundary produced by the inter-action of the Sun with the rest of the Galaxy, where the supersonic solar wind abruptly slows as it presses ou...
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Solar wind dynamic pressure and electric field as the main factors controlling Saturn's aurorae
The cover shows Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images of Saturn and its polar auroral emissions on 24, 26 and 28 January 2004. Visible wavelength images are combined with ultraviolet images of the south polar re...
