Modeling the response of the induced magnetosphere of Venus to changing IMF direction using MESSENGER and Venus express observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Benna, Mehdi ^a   Acuna, Mario H ^a   Anderson, Brian J ^b   Barabash, Stanislav ^c   Boardsen, Scott A ^a   Gloeckler, George ^d   Gold, Robert E ^b   Ho, George C ^b   Korth, Haje ^b   Krimigis, Stamatios M ^b   McNutt Jr , Ralph L ^b   Raines, Jim M ^d   Sarantos, Menelaos ^a   Slavin, James A ^e   Solomon, Sean C ^e   Zhang, Tielong L ^f   Zurbuchen, Thomas H ^d  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f Austrian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGETIC PARTICLES; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; FIELD REVERSAL; INDUCED MAGNETOSPHERES; INNER MAGNETOSPHERE; INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS; ION DENSITY; MAGNETIC FIELD PROFILE; MODELING RESULTS; NEW OPPORTUNITIES; PICK-UP IONS; PLASMA SHEET; SECOND MESSENGER; TRANSVERSE DIRECTIONS; VENUS EXPRESS; WIND CONDITIONS;

GAS WELDING; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOMETERS; MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMA SHEATHS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SOLAR WIND;

INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT;

MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETOSPHERE; SOLAR WIND; SPECTROMETRY; VENUS;

EID: 66149175773     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036718     Document Type: Article

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