{"title":"Quantization of natural energy pathways in space","authors":"Andrei Moldavanov","doi":"10.1016/j.jastp.2025.106672","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A phenomenon of energy transfer in space through a natural energy infrastructure shaped by confinement of the parameters of energy exchange is considered. The infrastructure consists of two interconnected energy spectra intrinsically stemming from the suggested model of an open thermodynamic system. The spectra are based on innate limitation imposed on the efficiency of energy exchange (primary spectrum) and the net passing energy (secondary spectrum). In this context, the primary spectrum creates the quantitative basis for realization of solution in the points of equilibrium, whereas the secondary spectrum forms the guiding energy tubes (<em>GET</em>) for bidirectional transfer between the distant energy points. According to the discussing theory, the family of <em>GETs</em> may be taken as the pathways for energy transfer with the observable signatures of spontaneous shaping, folding, and invariancy. Fundamentally, the conducted simulation for the event of energy transfer in the magnetosphere reveals the existence of connections between <em>GET</em> and the well-known magnetic flux tube, with the major advantage of <em>GET</em> in the more universal character of the underlying theory.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15096,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics","volume":"277 ","pages":"Article 106672"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2000,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics","FirstCategoryId":"89","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364682625002561","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2025/10/30 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"GEOCHEMISTRY & GEOPHYSICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A phenomenon of energy transfer in space through a natural energy infrastructure shaped by confinement of the parameters of energy exchange is considered. The infrastructure consists of two interconnected energy spectra intrinsically stemming from the suggested model of an open thermodynamic system. The spectra are based on innate limitation imposed on the efficiency of energy exchange (primary spectrum) and the net passing energy (secondary spectrum). In this context, the primary spectrum creates the quantitative basis for realization of solution in the points of equilibrium, whereas the secondary spectrum forms the guiding energy tubes (GET) for bidirectional transfer between the distant energy points. According to the discussing theory, the family of GETs may be taken as the pathways for energy transfer with the observable signatures of spontaneous shaping, folding, and invariancy. Fundamentally, the conducted simulation for the event of energy transfer in the magnetosphere reveals the existence of connections between GET and the well-known magnetic flux tube, with the major advantage of GET in the more universal character of the underlying theory.
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The Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics (JASTP) is an international journal concerned with the inter-disciplinary science of the Earth''s atmospheric and space environment, especially the highly varied and highly variable physical phenomena that occur in this natural laboratory and the processes that couple them.
The journal covers the physical processes operating in the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, ionosphere, magnetosphere, the Sun, interplanetary medium, and heliosphere. Phenomena occurring in other "spheres", solar influences on climate, and supporting laboratory measurements are also considered. The journal deals especially with the coupling between the different regions.
Solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and other energetic events on the Sun create interesting and important perturbations in the near-Earth space environment. The physics of such "space weather" is central to the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics and the journal welcomes papers that lead in the direction of a predictive understanding of the coupled system. Regarding the upper atmosphere, the subjects of aeronomy, geomagnetism and geoelectricity, auroral phenomena, radio wave propagation, and plasma instabilities, are examples within the broad field of solar-terrestrial physics which emphasise the energy exchange between the solar wind, the magnetospheric and ionospheric plasmas, and the neutral gas. In the lower atmosphere, topics covered range from mesoscale to global scale dynamics, to atmospheric electricity, lightning and its effects, and to anthropogenic changes.