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| Titel |
Large scale standing slow mode structures in MHD simulations of the hermean magnetosphere |
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Filippo Pantellini, Romain Meyrand, Jacobo Varela |
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EGU General Assembly 2015
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Artikel
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| Sprache |
Englisch
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PDF |
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In: GRA - Volume 17 (2015) |
| Datensatznummer |
250112426
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2015-12586.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Standing slow mode compressional fronts are seen to form upstream of the day side
magnetopause in MHD simulations of Mercury’s magnetosphere. These fronts are seen to
form upstream of the portions of the magnetopause characterized by a near reversal of the
magnetic field orientation. Their role is to bend the magnetosheath field lines towards the
magnetopause. Besides these compressional fronts, already observed in space and
theoretically discussed by various authors for the case of the Earth, large scale slow mode
rarefaction waves are also seen to form in most parts of the magnetosheath. The rarefaction
waves are essential to divert the interplanetary magnetic field lines and the solar wind plasma
flow around the magnetopause. |
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