AbstractA consideration is given to the generation of field-aligned currents under different solar wind conditions. The preliminary results from a set of resistive MHD calculations indicate that the field-aligned current system could be significantly changed by the orientation of the interplanetary magnetic field. For most of the cases studied, the total current is less than or on the order of 105 A. Even though this current is at least a factor of 10 smaller than its counter part at Earth, it might still produce some important dynamical effects with interesting consequence on the sporadic behavior of Mercury’s atomic sodium emission.


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    Titel :

    Mercury’s Birkeland current system


    Beteiligte:
    Ip, W.-H. (Autor:in) / Kopp, A. (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Advances in Space Research ; 33 , 12 ; 2172-2175


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2003-03-06


    Format / Umfang :

    4 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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