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MESSENGER Observations of Extreme Loading and Unloading of Mercury's Magnetic Tail
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SYSNO ASEP 0356503 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title MESSENGER Observations of Extreme Loading and Unloading of Mercury's Magnetic Tail Author(s) Slavin, J.A. (US)
Andreson, B.J. (US)
Baker, D. N. (US)
Benna, M. (US)
Boardsen, S.A. (US)
Gloeckler, G. (US)
Gold, R.E. (US)
Ho, G.C. (US)
Korth, H. (US)
Krimigis, S.M. (US)
McNutt, Jr., R.L. (US)
Nittler, L.R. (US)
Raines, J.M. (US)
Sarantos, M. (US)
Schriver, D. (US)
Solomon, S.C. (US)
Starr, R.D. (US)
Trávníček, Pavel M. (ASU-R) RID, ORCID
Zurbuchen, T.H. (US)Source Title Science. - : American Association for the Advancement of Science - ISSN 0036-8075
Roč. 329, č. 5992 (2010), s. 665-668Number of pages 4 s. Language eng - English Country US - United States Keywords solar-wind ; magnetosphere ; substorms Subject RIV BN - Astronomy, Celestial Mechanics, Astrophysics CEZ AV0Z10030501 - ASU-R (2005-2011) UT WOS 000280602700034 DOI 10.1126/science.1188067 Annotation During MESSENGER's third flyby of Mercury, the magnetic field in the planet's magnetic tail increased by factors of 2 to 3.5 over intervals of 2 to 3 minutes. Magnetospheric substorms at Earth are powered by similar tail loading, but the amplitude is lower by a factor of similar to 10 and typical durations are similar to 1 hour. The extreme tail loading observed at Mercury implies that the relative intensity of substorms must be much larger than at Earth. The correspondence between the duration of tail field enhancements and the characteristic time for the Dungey cycle, which describes plasma circulation through Mercury's magnetosphere, suggests that such circulation determines the substorm time scale. A key aspect of tail unloading during terrestrial substorms is the acceleration of energetic charged particles, but no acceleration signatures were seen during the MESSENGER flyby Workplace Astronomical Institute Contact Radka Svašková, bibl@asu.cas.cz, Tel.: 323 620 326 Year of Publishing 2011
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