Overview of low-energy electron observations from the Mercury Electron Analyzers onboard Mio/BepiColombo during cruise phase and planetary flybys |
Auteur | andre nicolas |
Institution | IRAP |
Theme | Theme5 |
| Auteur(s) supplémentaire(s) | Yoshifumi Saito, Jean-André Sauvaud, Sae Aizawa, Moa Persson, Mathias Rojo, Andréi Fedorov, Shoichiro Yokota, Alain Barthe, Emmanuel Penou, Go Murakami, Iannis Dandouras, Vincent Génot, Léa Griton, Christian Jacquey, Benoit Lavraud, Philippe Louarn, Christian Mazelle, Zdenek Nemecek, Jana Safrankova, Maria Federica Marcucci, Roberto Bruno, and Giuseppe Consolini |
| Institution(s) supplémentaire(s) | IRAP, CNRS, UPS, CNES, Toulouse, France, ISAS/JAXA, Sagamihara, Japan, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, INAF, Frascati, Italy |
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Abstract | BepiColombo was launched in October 2018 and is currently en route to Mercury. We will present an overview of the observations obtained by the two Mercury Electron Analyzer onboard the Mio spacecraft during the cruise phase, the Earth flyby in April 2020, and the two Venus flybys in October 2020 and August 2021, as well as during the first Mercury flyby in October 2021 . We will focus on the properties of the electron populations observed in the various environments encountered by the spacecraft. We will focus on the method implemented in order to derive electron fluid parameters despite the limited field of view of the instruments during cruise. |
