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Inner southern magnetosphere observation of Mercury via SERENA ion sensors in BepiColombo mission

Stefano Orsini (1) , A. Milillo (1) , H. Lichtenegger (2) , A. Varsani (2) , S. Barabash (3) , S. Livi (4, 5) , E. de Angelis (1) , T. Alberti (1) , G. Laky (2) , H. Nilsson (3) , M. Phillips (4) , A. Aronica (1) , E. Kallio (6) , P. Wurz (7) , A. Olivieri (8) , C. Plainaki (8) , J. A. Slavin (5) , I Dandouras (9) , J. M. Raines (5) , J. Benkhoff (10) , J. Zender (10) , Jean-Jacques Berthelier (11) , M. Dosa (12) , G. C. Ho (13) , R. M. Killen (14) , S. Mckenna-Lawlor (15) , K. Torkar (2) , O. Vaisberg (16) , F. Allegrini (4, 17) , I. A. Daglis (18, 19) , C. Dong (20, 21) , C. P. Escoubet (10) , S. Fatemi (22) , M. Fränz (23) , S. Ivanovski (24) , N. Krupp (23) , H. Lammer (2) , François Leblanc (11) , V. Mangano (1) , A. Mura (1) , R. Rispoli (1) , M. Sarantos (14) , H. T. Smith (13) , M Wieser (3) , F. Camozzi (25) , A. M. Di Lellis (26) , G. Fremuth (2) , F. Giner (2) , R. Gurnee (27) , J. Hayes (13) , H. Jeszenszky (2) , B. Trantham (2) , J. Balaz (28) , W. Baumjohann (2) , M. Cantatore (25) , Dominique C. Delcourt (29) , M. Delva (2) , M. Desai (4) , H. Fischer (23) , A. Galli (7) , M. Grande (30) , M. Holmström (3) , I. Horvath (12) , K. C. Hsieh (31) , R. Jarvinen (6, 32) , R. E. Johnson (33) , A. Kazakov (1) , K. Kecskemety (12) , H. Krüger (23) , C. Kürbisch (2) , Frédéric Leblanc (34) , M. Leichtfried (2) , E. Mangraviti (24) , S. Massetti (1) , D. Moissenko (16) , M. Moroni (1) , R. Noschese (1) , F. Nuccilli (1) , N. Paschalidis (14) , J. Ryno (32) , K. Seki (35) , A. Shestakov (16) , S. Shuvalov (16) , R. Sordini (1) , F. Stenbeck (3) , J. Svensson (3) , S. Szalai (12) , K. Szego (12) , Dominique Toublanc (9) , N. Vertolli (1) , R. Wallner (2) , A. Vorburger (7)
1 IAPS - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali - INAF
2 IWF - Space Research Institute of Austrian Academy of Sciences
3 IRF - Swedish Institute of Space Physics [Kiruna]
4 SwRI - Southwest Research Institute [San Antonio]
5 CLaSP - Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering
6 Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering [Espoo]
7 Physics Institute [Bern]
8 Italian Space Agency
9 IRAP - Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie
10 ESTEC - European Space Research and Technology Centre
11 HELIOS - LATMOS
12 Wigner Research Centre for Physics [Budapest]
13 APL - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory [Laurel, MD]
14 GSFC - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
15 Space Technology Ireland Limited
16 IKI - Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
17 UTSA Department of Physics and Astronomy [San Antonio]
18 NKUA - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
19 HSC - Hellenic Space Center
20 PPPL - Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
21 Department of Astrophysical Sciences [Princeton]
22 Department of Physics [Umeå]
23 MPS - Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung = Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
24 OAT - INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste
25 OHB-Italia SpA
26 AMDL srl
27 LASP - Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics [Boulder]
28 Institute of Experimental Physics SAS
29 LPC2E - Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace
30 Aberystwyth University
31 University of Arizona
32 FMI - Finnish Meteorological Institute
33 University of Virginia
34 LPP - Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas
35 Department of Earth and Planetary Science [Tokyo]
P. Wurz
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A. Olivieri
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C. Plainaki
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Jean-Jacques Berthelier
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François Leblanc
F. Camozzi
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A. M. Di Lellis
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M. Cantatore
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M. Grande
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Frédéric Leblanc

Résumé

In this study we present the observation of Mercury's inner southern magnetosphere and surrounding regions, never previously explored, as detected by the two ion sensors of the instrument package: 'Search for Exospheric Refilling and Emitted Natural Abundances' (SERENA), named 'Planetary Ion CAMera' (PICAM) and 'Miniaturized Ion Precipitation Analyzer' (MIPA), on board BepiColombo mission during the first Mercury flyby, on 1 st October 2021. Here we show the analysis of the data acquired during this flyby, a glimpse of what we will get from the nominal mission: in particular we observe and describe specific ion features nearby and inside the Hermean environment, like: intermittent high energy signal due to an interplanetary magnetic flux rope; magnetospheric ions with different energy drifting at low altitudes above the planet and determining specific plasma regimes; ion signals detected outside the magnetosphere at low energy.
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hal-03851795 , version 1 (14-11-2022)
hal-03851795 , version 2 (20-12-2022)

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Stefano Orsini, A. Milillo, H. Lichtenegger, A. Varsani, S. Barabash, et al.. Inner southern magnetosphere observation of Mercury via SERENA ion sensors in BepiColombo mission. Nature Communications, 2022, 13, pp.7390. ⟨10.1038/s41467-022-34988-x⟩. ⟨hal-03851795v2⟩
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