ERC Consolidator Grant · 2023
We develop a new type of a global plasma simulation model with adaptive charged particle kinetic physics for the Mercury-solar wind interaction. Mercury’s solar wind interaction, or space weather, is unique in the solar system due to spatially small and temporally fast magnetospheric scales, atmosphereless solid body with a large conducting core, a tenuous surface-originating exosphere and the closest distance to the Sun of the planets. These features mean that Mercury is an ideal "compact-sized magnetospheric solar wind interaction laboratory" for spacecraft and model studies compared to Earth's much larger magnetosphere. Since Mercury's plasma environment is populated by a unique…
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