Explosive Energetic Electron Events at Mercury

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Oct 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011epsc.conf..272h&link_type=abstract

EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.272

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So far there is no evidence to suggest that there are large fluxes of high-energy (>300 keV) electrons or protons in Mercury's magnetosphere, contrary to the report by Mariner 10 [3]. The field-aligned distribution and general location of these electron events lead us to believe that they are associated with some type of particle acceleration in the tail region of Mercury's magnetosphere. The recurrent and burst-like nature of these events suggest that there is an efficient acceleration mechanism operating at Mercury's magnetosphere on a regular basis that is able to produce low-energy electrons with energies up to hundreds of keV on timescales of seconds.

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