MESSENGER observations of large-amplitude Kelvin-Helmholtz waves at Mercury's magnetopause

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Oct 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011epsc.conf..844s&link_type=abstract

EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.844

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We here present additional evidence from MESSENGER orbital observations on how the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability serves to drive Mercury's magnetosphere when the IMF is strongly northward. In particular, the observations reported here show for the first time that the KH instability can transfer substantial amounts of magnetosheath plasma into the magnetosphere even at Mercury's post-noon magnetopause.

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