Mercury's magnetosphere-solar wind interaction for northward and southward interplanetary magnetic field: Hybrid simulation results

Icarus

Volumn 209, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 11-22

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ASTRONOMICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

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

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetospheres; Mercury; Solar wind

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955774138     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.01.008     Document Type: Article

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