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Aug 1986
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986georl..13..789b&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 13, Aug. 1986, p. 789-792. Research supported by the Los Alamos National Lab
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Jupiter (Planet), Magnetospheric Electron Density, Mercury (Planet), Planetary Atmospheres, Planetary Magnetospheres, Atmospheric Models, Bow Waves, High Energy Electrons, Planetary Radiation, Solar Wind
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A mechanism to explain the existence of two distinctly different kinds of energetic electron bursts within the Hermean magnetosphere is presented. The spectrally-soft, very intense increases of energetic electrons observed in situ by Mariner 10 are ascribed to 'substorm-like' dissipation events due to magnetic reconnection in Mercury's magnetotail. The other type of electron bursts observed in Mercury's magnetosphere, characterized by lower peak intensities and much harder energy spectra, are attributed to Jovian electrons which first enter and are subsequently confined in the Hermean system. This Jovian electron model at Mercury is closely analogous to a similar model of such Jovian electron effects within the terrestrial magnetosphere. Such a model eliminates the need for the Hermean magnetosphere to produce highly relativistic electron bursts by internal generation mechanisms.
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