Global MHD modeling of Mercury's magnetosphere with applications to the MESSENGER mission and dynamo theory

Icarus

Volumn 195, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-15

  Kabin, K ^a   Heimpel, M H ^a   Rankin, R ^a   Aurnou, J M ^b   Gomez Perez N ^a   Paral, J ^a   Gombosi, T I ^c   Zurbuchen, T H ^c   Koehn, P L ^d   DeZeeuw, D L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

interiors; Magnetospheres; Mercury

Indexed keywords

EID: 42149132340     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.11.028     Document Type: Article

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