2021年1月
Electromagnetic induction revealed by MESSENGER's vector magnetic data: The size of Mercury's core
Icarus
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- 巻
- 354
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- 開始ページ
- 114112
- 終了ページ
- 114112
- 記述言語
- 掲載種別
- 研究論文(学術雑誌)
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.icarus.2020.114112
- 出版者・発行元
- Elsevier BV
Gauss coefficients of Mercury's internal/external magnetic field with high time resolution are essential to delineate electrical properties within Mercury. Although the time-averaged structure of Mercury's magnetic field has been studied so far, its time variation has been less studied using the observed data directly. Here we determined the annual and semi-annual variations of Mercury's external magnetic field in Mercury Year as the characteristic periods that contribute to electromagnetic (EM) induction by converting the magnetopause-crossing data of MESSENGER into the subsolar distance. We obtained the time series of Mercury's internal Gauss coefficients by spherical harmonic analyses of MESSENGER's vector magnetic data using a series of constrained inversions. In the inversions, we used KT14 model as a function of the subsolar distance to estimate the external magnetic field at desired moments. Finally, we estimated the core radius of Mercury as 2011 ± 180 km from the inductive response of the annual variation.
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- DOI : 10.1016/j.icarus.2020.114112
- ISSN : 0019-1035
- eISSN : 1090-2643
- SCOPUS ID : 85091210071