An empirical model of the plasma environment around Mercury

Details An empirical model of the plasma environment around Mercury An empirical model of the plasma environment around Mercury

Jan 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004adspr..33.2166m&link_type=abstract

Advances in Space Research, Volume 33, Issue 12, p. 2166-2171.

Physics

Space Physics

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Mercury, Magnetosphere, Plasma Sheet

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Since the flyby observations by Mariner 10 in 1974 and 1975, Mercury has been one of the most interesting objects for space physics and planetary exploration. The MESSENGER and BepiColombo missions now plan to revisit this planet. In order to design plasma instruments for the BepiColombo mission, we have estimated electron and ion fluxes around Mercury with an empirical model, which has been developed for the Earth's magnetotail. The solar wind data needed as input parameters are derived from Helios observations. The result shows that our predicted electron fluxes at aphelion agree well with the Mariner-10 data. It is also noted that ion instruments must cover a very wide dynamic range of proton fluxes. However, the applicability of the Earth's magnetospheric model to Mercury is, in itself, an important issue for comparative magnetospheric studies.

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