Flux transfer events (FTEs) are disturbances in and near the magnetopause current layer that cause a characteristic signature in the component of the magnetic field parallel to the average boundary normal. These disturbances have been observed at Mercury, Earth and Jupiter but not at Saturn, Uranus or Neptune. At Earth, FTEs last about 1 minute and repeat about every 8 but at Mercury, a much smaller magnetosphere, the events last seconds and are tens of seconds apart. These features have been interpreted in terms of magnetospheric flux ropes connected to the interplanetary magnetic field, arising as the result of reconnection. An analogous phenomenon occurs at Venus where magnetic flux ropes arise at the ionosphere, a boundary between a very strongly magnetized one. However, here the flux ropes do not appear to be due to reconnection.


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    Titel :

    A study of flux transfer events at different planets


    Beteiligte:
    Russell, C. T. (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1995-08-01



    Medientyp :

    Sonstige


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch


    Schlagwörter :


    A Study of Flux Transfer Events at Different Planets

    Russell, C. T. / Committee on Space Research; Scientific Commission D | British Library Conference Proceedings | 1995


    A Study of Flux Transfer Events at Different Planets

    Russell, C.T. | Online Contents | 1995


    Observations of flux transfer events

    Farrugia, C.J. / Southwood, D.J. / Cowley, S.W.H. | Elsevier | 1989


    The Occurrence Rate of Flux Transfer Events

    Russell, C.T. | Online Contents | 1996


    Mapping Flux Transfer Events to the Ionosphere

    Glassmeier, K.-H. | Online Contents | 1996