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MESSENGER observations of Mercury's magnetosphere during northward IMF
- 1.0337660 - ASÚ 2010 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Slavin, J.A. - Anderson, B.J. - Zurbuchen, T.H. - Baker, D. N. - Krimigis, S.M. - Acuna, M. H. - Benna, M. - Boardsen, S.A. - Gloeckler, G. - Gold, R.E. - Ho, G.C. - Korth, H. - McNutt, Jr., R.L. - Raines, J.M. - Sarantos, M. - Schriver, D. - Solomon, S.C. - Trávníček, Pavel M.
MESSENGER observations of Mercury's magnetosphere during northward IMF.
Geophysical Research Letters. Roč. 36, č. 2 (2009), L02101/1-L02101/6. ISSN 0094-8276. E-ISSN 1944-8007
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10030501
Keywords : magnetosphere * Mercury
Subject RIV: BN - Astronomy, Celestial Mechanics, Astrophysics
Impact factor: 3.204, year: 2009
MESSENGER's January 14, 2008, flyby of Mercury has provided new observations of the planet's magnetosphere for northward interplanetary magnetic field (IMF). The dusk magnetopause was located inward from the mean magnetopause surface, possibly due to reduced tail magnetic flux content for IMF Bz > 0 and/or the pressure of planetary pickup ions as they respond to the dawnward - v × B electric field in the magnetosheath. Within the plasma sheet rotations of the magnetic field are observed consistent with, Kelvin-Helmholtz vortices ~1 RM in diameter (RM is Mercury's radius).
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