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Achievements of Magnetospheric Research

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Magnetospheric Physics

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Achievements of magnetospheric research, which are of major importance not only for the field itself but also from a basic plasma physics or general astrophysics point of view, are reviewed. Examples of such achievements are presented and discussed from the following fields: the Van Allen belts, collision-less shocks, cellular structure of the solar system, interaction at the magnetopause, electron acceleration into the atmosphere, macroscopic instabilities in magnetospheres, interaction between hot and cold magnetospheric plasmas, and wave-particle interactions.

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Hultqvist, B. (1990). Achievements of Magnetospheric Research. In: Hultqvist, B., Fälthammar, CG. (eds) Magnetospheric Physics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7376-0_3

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