論文

責任著者
2021年1月

Electromagnetic induction revealed by MESSENGER's vector magnetic data: The size of Mercury's core

Icarus
  • Taka’aki Katsura
  • ,
  • Hisayoshi Shimizu
  • ,
  • Naoya Momoki
  • ,
  • Hiroaki Toh

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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
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2020.114112
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ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1016/j.icarus.2020.114112
  • ISSN : 0019-1035
  • eISSN : 1090-2643
  • SCOPUS ID : 85091210071

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