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MESSENGER Observations of Magnetic Reconnection in Mercury’s Magnetosphere
- 1.0337677 - ASÚ 2010 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Slavin, J.A. - Acuna, M. H. - Anderson, B.J. - Baker, D. N. - Benna, M. - Boardsen, S.A. - Gloeckler, G. - Gold, R.E. - Ho, G.C. - Korth, H. - Krimigis, S.M. - McNutt, Jr., R.L. - Raines, J.M. - Sarantos, M. - Schriver, D. - Solomon, S.C. - Trávníček, Pavel M. - Zurbuchen, T.H.
MESSENGER Observations of Magnetic Reconnection in Mercury’s Magnetosphere.
Science. Roč. 324, č. 5927 (2009), s. 606-610. ISSN 0036-8075. E-ISSN 1095-9203
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10030501
Keywords : magnetosphere * Mercury * magnetic reconnection
Subject RIV: BN - Astronomy, Celestial Mechanics, Astrophysics
Impact factor: 29.747, year: 2009
During MESSENGER’s second flyby of Mercury, a steady southward IMF was observed and the magnetopause was threaded by a strong magnetic field, indicating a reconnection rate ~10 times that typical at Earth. Moreover, a large flux transfer event was observed in the magnetosheath, and a plasmoid and multiple traveling compression regions were observed in Mercury’s magnetotail, all products of reconnection. These observations indicate that Mercury’s magnetosphere is much more responsive to IMF direction and dominated by the effects of reconnection than that of Earth or the other magnetized planets.
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