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“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.” - Douglas Adams

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Surface charging of Jupiter’s moon europa

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Reddy, Nordheim, and Harris (2024)

Sachin A. Reddy, Tom A. Nordheim, Camilla D. K. Harris

Radio signatures of star–planet interactions, exoplanets and space weather

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The Problem: Understanding the space environment around exoplanets is crucial for characterizing their potential habitability. This requires measuring stellar magnetic…

J. R. Callingham, B. J. S. Pope

Efficient Nonthermal Particle Acceleration

by the Kink Instability in Relativistic Jets

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Extragalactic jets from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) carry relativistic magnetized plasma and produce nonthermal electrons/positrons that radiate from radio to TeV energies.

E. P. Alves, J. Zrake, F. Fiuza

Magnetosheath jets at Jupiter and across the solar system

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Reported anti-sunward and sunward jets in the Jovian magnetosheath.

The role of drift orbit bifurcations in energization and loss

of electrons in the outer radiation belt

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dynamical system

Stably trapped particles (shown in cyan color) participate in three distinct quasiperiodic motions: the gyromotion, the bounce motion and the gradient curvature drift around…

A. Y. Ukhorskiy, M. I. Sitnov

MESSENGER Observations of Extreme Loading and Unloading of Mercury’s Magnetic Tail

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Messenger (Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging)

James A. Slavin

Evolution of Solar and Stellar Dynamo Theory

in ‘Solar and Stellar Dynamo: A New Era’

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dynamo theory

The origin, amplification, saturation and sustainment, of magnetic ﬁelds in the universe

Charbonneau Paul, Sokoloff Dmitry

AGU23

Wide. Open. Science.

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Two posters are presented this year. First AGU meeting in person!