MESSENGER observations of large flux transfer events at mercury

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Slavin, James A ^a   Lepping, Ronald P ^a   Wu, Chin Chun ^b   Anderson, Brian J ^c   Baker, Daniel N ^c   Benna, Mehdi ^d   Boardsen, Scott A ^a   Killen, Rosemary M ^d   Korth, Haje ^c   Krimigis, Stamatios M ^c,e   McClintock, William E ^c   McNutt Jr , Ralph L ^c   Sarantos, Menelaos ^a   Schriver, David ^f   Solomon, Sean C ^g   Trávníček, Pavel ^h   Zurbuchen, Thomas H ^h  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^g NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOSPHERE; MERCURY (METAL);

EXPOSED TO; FLUX CONTENT; FLUX ROPE MODEL; FLUX TRANSFER EVENTS; INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FIELD DATA; MAGNETOSHEATHS;

INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT;

EID: 77955300742     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041485     Document Type: Article

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