A new model of Mercury’s magnetospheric magnetic field

Details A new model of Mercury’s magnetospheric magnetic field A new model of Mercury’s magnetospheric magnetic field

Jan 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006adspr..38..616s&link_type=abstract

Advances in Space Research, Volume 38, Issue 4, p. 616-626.

Physics

9

Scientific paper

Two new missions will arrive at Mercury within the next decade. Interest in this enigmatic planet has therefore been revived in the magnetospheric community, and new models of Mercury’s magnetic field are demanded. In the past, there have been several attempts to model the magnetosphere of Mercury based on simply scaling models of the Earth’s magnetosphere. Although these scaled models have enjoyed many successes, their global magnetic configurations are determined by measurements made at the Earth, not at Mercury. In this paper, we develop a new empirical model of the Hermean field which is constrained wherever possible by the Mariner 10 dataset. We also explore the response of the model to upstream solar wind conditions. Data-based empirical models are an invaluable tool in magnetospheric physics at the Earth, and will doubtless prove to be just as useful at Mercury. The model developed here is generally applicable, and can be used to fit a much larger spacecraft dataset when it becomes available.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

No associations

Rating

A new model of Mercury’s magnetospheric magnetic field does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.

If you have personal experience with A new model of Mercury’s magnetospheric magnetic field, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and A new model of Mercury’s magnetospheric magnetic field will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-1280074