Mercury's magnetopause and bow shock from MESSENGER observations

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Oct 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011epsc.conf..674m&link_type=abstract

EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.674

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Mercury's bow shock and magnetopause have been modeled from Mariner 10 [1] and MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) flyby observations [2]. A conic section is adopted for the bow shock [1] and an arctangent function for the magnetopause [3]. The models show that the bow shock is more flared than at Earth but the shape of the magnetopause is similar to Earth's, with a subsolar stand-off distance of 1.4 RM (RM is Mercury's radius). We improve on these models using magnetic field data from Mercury orbit.

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