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Table 4 Gauss coefficients for the internal dipole, quadrupole and octupole field and for the external dipole field reconstructed from MESSENGER data. In the last colum the ranges of Gauss coefficients reconstructed from MESSENGER data by Anderson et al. (2012), Thébault et al. (2018) and Wardinski et al. (2019) are shown

From: The Mie representation for Mercury’s magnetic field

Gauss coefficient

Output capon in nT

Ranges of former works in nT

\(g_1^0\)

– 175.9

– 215.8 to – 190.0

\(g_1^1\)

– 1.7

– 2.9 – 0.9

\(h_1^1\)

4.5

0.8 – 2.7

\(g_2^0\)

– 82.0

– 83.2 to – 57.7

\(g_2^1\)

0.8

– 1.5 – 3.4

\(h_2^1\)

1.0

– 1.4 – 0.0

\(g_2^2\)

2.9

– 7.0 to – 1.4

\(h_2^2\)

1.7

– 3.3 – 0.4

\(g_3^0\)

– 19.1

– 36.7 to – 15.7

\(g_3^1\)

1.1

1.8 – 4.1

\(h_3^1\)

0.4

0.3 – 0.8

\(g_3^2\)

– 0.5

– 1.5 – 9.2

\(h_3^2\)

– 5.9

0.9 – 2.6

\(g_3^3\)

– 5.8

– 2.5 to– 1.4

\(h_3^3\)

– 3.3

0.1 – 0.3

\(q_1^0\)

– 36.6

– 39.7 to – 23.2

\(q_1^1\)

– 7.4

– 0.2 – 0.7

\(s_1^1\)

0.8

– 0.1 – 1.5