This information can be used by scientists to decipher one aspect of the
complicated acceleration processes that are responsible for the creation of highly energetic and fast solar particles.
The local
wave acceleration process is a universal physical process and should also be effective in the magnetospheres of Jupiter, Saturn and other magnetized plasma environments in the cosmos, Thorne said.
«In the coming years, we will concentrate on optimizing the
new acceleration process with the help of further simulations and experiments,» Hilz adds.
Just to answer the worries about brown dwarf magnetospheres — Jupiter's is so hostile because it traps high energy protons from the Sun, plus there's some kind of poorly
understood acceleration process that adds energy to them.
We have also been selected for
an acceleration process by the LevelUp program in Finland.