کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1766943 1020171 2006 11 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
A new model of Mercury's magnetospheric magnetic field
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه علوم زمین و سیارات علوم فضا و نجوم
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A new model of Mercury's magnetospheric magnetic field
چکیده انگلیسی
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.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Advances in Space Research - Volume 38, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 616-626
نویسندگان
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