Energetic Electrons Observed During BebiColombo Mercury Flybys
- 1Aberystwyth, Faculty of Business and Physical Sciences, Physics, United Kingdom of Great Britain – England, Scotland, Wales (lie6@aber.ac.uk)
- 2Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Finland
- 3Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku, Finland
- 4European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), European Space Agency, Noordwijk, Netherlands
- 5School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
- 6The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, USA
- 7Institut für Geophysik und extraterrestrische Physik, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
We report on BepiColombo SIXS observations of energetic electron populations in the Mercury Magnetosphere. Whilst on the first flyby we observed no such populations, on both the second and third flybys we observed strong energetic particle signatures. We will compare these with the measurements made by Messenger ( Lawrence et al., Lindsay et al.) The data was consistent with two separate populations, characterised by different pulsation frequencies, observed on the nightside, and cutting out sharply at the magnetopause exit. These are interpreted in the context of the Lawrence et al. observations.
How to cite: Edwards, L., Grande, M., Kilpua, E., Vainio, R., Pinto, M., Sanchez-Cano, B., Lindsay, S., Lawrence, D., Lehtolainen, A., Heyner, D., Benkhoff, J., and Aizawa, S.: Energetic Electrons Observed During BebiColombo Mercury Flybys, Europlanet Science Congress 2024, Berlin, Germany, 8–13 Sep 2024, EPSC2024-1012, https://doi.org/10.5194/epsc2024-1012, 2024.
