Mercury’s anomalous magnetic field caused by a symmetry-breaking self-regulating dynamo

Futoshi Takahashi; Hisayoshi Shimizu; Hideo Tsunakawa

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-08213-7

Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Mercury’s anomalous magnetic field caused by a symmetry-breaking self-regulating dynamo

Futoshi Takahashi,
Hisayoshi Shimizu,
Hideo Tsunakawa

Affiliations

Futoshi Takahashi: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University
Hisayoshi Shimizu: Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo
Hideo Tsunakawa: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08213-7
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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A new regime of planetary magnetic fields was revealed through the MESSENGER spacecraft mission to Mercury. Here, the authors present a numerical dynamo model that can re-produce both the axisymmetric and anomalously axially offset dipolar magnetic field of Mercury.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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