dc.contributor.author | Kong, D | |
dc.contributor.author | Zhang, K | |
dc.contributor.author | Schubert, G | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-06-06T08:44:44Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-03-23 | |
dc.description.abstract | Convective motion in the deep metallic hydrogen region of Jupiter is believed to generate its magnetic field, the strongest in the solar system. The amplitude, structure and depth of the convective motion are unknown. A promising way of probing the Jovian convective dynamo is to measure its effect on the external gravitational field, a task to be soon undertaken by the Juno spacecraft. We calculate the gravitational signature of non-axisymmetric convective motion in the Jovian metallic hydrogen region and show that with sufficiently accurate measurements it can reveal the nature of the deep convection. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | KZ is supported by Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant RPG-2015-096 and by Macau FDCT grant 039/2013/A2. The computation made use of the high performance computing resources in the Core Facility for Advanced Research Computing at Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 6, article 23497 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1038/srep23497 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/21845 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Nature Publishing Group | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27005472 | en_GB |
dc.rights | Open access. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dc.title | Using Jupiter's gravitational field to probe the Jovian convective dynamo | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2016-06-06T08:44:44Z | |
exeter.place-of-publication | England | |
dc.description | This is the final version of the article. Available from Nature Publishing Group via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Scientific Reports | en_GB |