The Magnetic Field of Mercury

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Mercury’s Weather-Beaten Surface: Understanding Mercury in the Context of Lunar and Asteroidal Space Weathering Studies (2014, background): “Knowledge of Mercury’s magnetic field, discovered during the Mariner 10 flybys in 1974– 1975, has been greatly extended by the three MESSENGER flybys in 2008–2009 (Anderson et al. 2008, 2010; Slavin et al. 2008, 2009, 2010a, 2010b) and by Mercury orbital observations (Anderson et al. 2011).”
MESSENGER observations of magnetopause structure and dynamics at Mercury (2013, background): “We now know that Mercury’s magnetic moment is 195 10 nT-R3M (where RM is Mercury’s radius, or 2440 km) [Anderson et al., 2008, 2010; Alexeev et al., 2010].”
MESSENGER Observations of Mercury's Magnetic Field Structure (2012, methodology): “Although the nightside magnetopause crossings are better fit with a value for g greater than 1, values of g greater than 1.1 yield models that provide a poor overall fit to the crossings on the dayside (see, e.g., the curve for g = 1.3; Figure 5).”
Low‐degree structure in Mercury's planetary magnetic field (2012, background): “…high plasma pressures and corresponding magnetization currents are prevalent below 0.5 RM altitude and within 45 latitude of the equator and cause depressions in the magnetic field strength from tens of percent to over 90% [Anderson et al., 2010; Korth et al., 2011, 2012; Winslow et al., 2012].”