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A time-averaged regional model of the Hermean magnetic field
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In this article, the authors presented the first regional model of the magnetic field of Mercury developed with mathematical continuous functions, which has a horizontal spatial resolution of about 830 km at the surface of the planet, and it is derived without any a priori information about the geometry of the internal and external fields.About:
This article is published in Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors.The article was published on 2017-09-01. It has received 20 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Dipole model of the Earth's magnetic field & L-shell.read more
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Investigating Mercury’s Environment with the Two-Spacecraft BepiColombo Mission
Anna Milillo,M. Fujimoto,G. Murakami,Johannes Benkhoff,Joe Zender,Sae Aizawa,M. Dósa,Léa Griton,Daniel Heyner,George C. Ho,Suzanne M. Imber,Xianzhe Jia,Tomas Karlsson,Rosemary M. Killen,Monica Laurenza,S. T. Lindsay,S. M. P. McKenna-Lawlor,Alessandro Mura,Jim M. Raines,David A. Rothery,N. André,Wolfgang Baumjohann,Alexey A. Berezhnoy,Philippe-A. Bourdin,Emma J. Bunce,F. Califano,Jan Deca,S. de la Fuente,Chuanfei Dong,Chuanfei Dong,Cesare Grava,Shahab Fatemi,Pierre Henri,Stavro Ivanovski,Bernard V. Jackson,Matthew K. James,Esa Kallio,Yasumasa Kasaba,Emilia Kilpua,M. Kobayashi,Benoit Langlais,François Leblanc,Christoph Lhotka,V. Mangano,A. Martindale,Stefano Massetti,Adam Masters,Michiko Morooka,Yasuhito Narita,J. S. Oliveira,Dusan Odstrcil,Stefano Orsini,M. G. Pelizzo,Christina Plainaki,Ferdinand Plaschke,F. Sahraoui,Kanako Seki,James A. Slavin,Rami Vainio,Peter Wurz,S. Barabash,Chris Carr,Dominique Delcourt,Karl-Heinz Glassmeier,Manuel Grande,Masafumi Hirahara,Juhani Huovelin,Oleg Korablev,Hirotsugu Kojima,Herbert Lichtenegger,Stefano Livi,Ayako Matsuoka,R. Moissl,Michel Moncuquet,Karri Muinonen,Eric Quémerais,Y. Saito,Satoshi Yagitani,Ichiro Yoshikawa,Jan-Erik Wahlund +79 more
TL;DR: The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission will provide simultaneous measurements from two spacecraft, offering an unprecedented opportunity to investigate magnetospheric and exospheric dynamics at Mercury as well as their interactions with the solar wind, radiation, and interplanetary dust.
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The BepiColombo Planetary Magnetometer MPO-MAG: What Can We Learn from the Hermean Magnetic Field?
Daniel Heyner,H. U. Auster,Karl-Heinz Fornacon,Chris Carr,Ingo Richter,Johannes Z. D. Mieth,Patrick Kolhey,W. Exner,Uwe Motschmann,Wolfgang Baumjohann,Ayako Matsuoka,Werner Magnes,G. Berghofer,David Fischer,Ferdinand Plaschke,Rumi Nakamura,Yasuhito Narita,Magda Delva,Martin Volwerk,André Balogh,M. K. Dougherty,Timothy S. Horbury,B. Langlais,Mioara Mandea,Adam Masters,J. S. Oliveira,J. S. Oliveira,Beatriz Sánchez-Cano,James A. Slavin,Susanne Vennerstrøm,Joachim Vogt,Johannes Wicht,Karl-Heinz Glassmeier +32 more
TL;DR: The magnetometer instrument MPO-MAG on board the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) of the BepiColombo mission enroute to Mercury is introduced, with its instrument design, its calibration and scientific targets as mentioned in this paper.
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Geodesy, Geophysics and Fundamental Physics Investigations of the BepiColombo Mission
Antonio Genova,H. Hussmann,Tim Van Hoolst,Tim Van Hoolst,Daniel Heyner,Luciano Iess,Francesco Santoli,Nicolas Thomas,Paolo Cappuccio,Ivan di Stefano,Patrick Kolhey,Benoit Langlais,Johannes Z. D. Mieth,J. S. Oliveira,J. S. Oliveira,Alexander Stark,Gregor Steinbrügge,Nicola Tosi,Johannes Wicht,Johannes Benkhoff +19 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the scientific goals of the Geodesy and Geophysics Working Group (GGWG) that aims at addressing fundamental questions regarding Mercury's internal structure and evolution.
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Correlated Time-Varying Magnetic Fields and the Core Size of Mercury
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Mercury’s anomalous magnetic field caused by a symmetry-breaking self-regulating dynamo
TL;DR: A numerical dynamo model is presented that can re-produce both the axisymmetric and anomalously axially offset dipolar magnetic field of Mercury and produces magnetic fields similar in morphology and strength to that of Mercury.
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