MESSENGER observations of large dayside flux transfer events: Do they drive Mercury's substorm cycle?
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MESSENGER observations of large dayside flux transfer events: Do they drive Mercurys substorm cycle?
The large-scale dynamic behavior of Mercury’s highly compressedmagnetosphere is predominantly powered by magnetic reconnection, which transfers energy and momentum from the solar wind to the magnetosphere. The contribution of flux transfer events (FTEs) at the daysidemagnetopause to the redistribution of magnetic flux in Mercury’s magnetosphere is assessed with magnetic field data acquired in o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2169-9380
DOI: 10.1002/2014ja019884