Computer Science
Scientific paper
Aug 1995
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995adspr..16..159r&link_type=abstract
Advances in Space Research (ISSN 0273-1177), vol. 16, no. 4, p. (4)159-(4)163
Computer Science
Earth Magnetosphere, Flux Transfer Events, Jupiter (Planet), Magnetopause, Mercury (Planet), Neptune (Planet), Planetary Magnetic Fields, Planetary Magnetospheres, Saturn (Planet), Uranus (Planet), Venus (Planet), Heos Satellites, International Sun Earth Explorers, Ionopause, Magnetic Field Reconnection, Mariner 10 Space Probe, Pioneer 10 Space Probe, Pioneer 11 Space Probe, Ulysses Mission, Voyager 1 Spacecraft, Voyager 2 Spacecraft
Scientific paper
Flux transfer events (FTEs) are disturbances in and near the magnetopause current layer that cause a characteristic signature in the component of the magnetic field parallel to the average boundary normal. These disturbances have been observed at Mercury, Earth and Jupiter but not at Saturn, Uranus or Neptune. At Earth, FTEs last about 1 minute and repeat about every 8 but at Mercury, a much smaller magnetosphere, the events last seconds and are tens of seconds apart. These features have been interpreted in terms of magnetospheric flux ropes connected to the interplanetary magnetic field, arising as the result of reconnection. An analogous phenomenon occurs at Venus where magnetic flux ropes arise at the ionosphere, a boundary between a very strongly magnetized one. However, here the flux ropes do not appear to be due to reconnection.
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