Место издания:Space Research Institute Moscow, Russia
Первая страница:abst. 197, 3MS3-PS-26
Аннотация:Using a paraboloidal model of Mercury’s magnetosphere, we study the magnetospheric magnetic field topology for different orientations of IMF. Special attention is paid to the case of radial IMF. Mercury is the smallest planet in the solar system and it does not have a substantial atmosphere or ionosphere. Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, and it possesses a week intrinsic magnetic field. Due to these circumstances, IMF plays a major role in the hermean magnetospheric dynamics. Comparison with the better investigated Earth’s magnetosphere is fulfilled for clarifying the physical processes (mainly reconnection) existent in the hermean magnetosphere. Except the case of strongly southward IMF, the radial IMF, character to the Mercury environment, also could be connected with the appearance of FTEs. In the last case the quasi-neutral line connected with the FTE generation, is placed in one of the cusps (depending on the sign of BIMFx).