Kinetic instabilities in Mercury's magnetosphere: Three-dimensional simulation results

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Trávníček, Pavel M ^a,b,c   Hellinger, Petr ^a,b   Schriver, David ^c   Hercik, David ^b   Slavin, James A ^d   Anderson, Brian J ^e,f  

^a ASTRONOMICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-TRAIN; BOW SHOCKS; DIAMAGNETIC EFFECTS; EQUATORIAL PLANES; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELDS; ION TEMPERATURE; KINETIC INSTABILITY; KINETIC STUDY; LONG WAVELENGTH; MAGNETOSHEATH; MERCURY'S MAGNETOSPHERE; THREE DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS; VELOCITY SHEAR;

ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETOSPHERE; MERCURY (METAL); MIRRORS; PLASMA SHOCK WAVES; PLASMA STABILITY; SOLAR WIND; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS;

ANISOTROPY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; KINETICS; MAGNETOSPHERE; MERCURY (PLANET); PLASMA; SOLAR WIND;

EID: 67449149412     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036630     Document Type: Article

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