BepiColombo ESA/JAXA: Hermean Environment Working Group meeting

21 Oct 2024, 08:00 → 22 Oct 2024, 18:10 Europe/Paris

107 (Sorbonne Université - Paris Jussieu)

Hermean Environment Working Group meeting

 

The BepiColombo HEWG meeting will take place on October 21 and 22, 2024. The meeting will be hosted by Sorbonne Université, 4 place Jussieu, 75005 Paris.

 

The goal of the HEWG meeting to discuss Mercury science using spacecraft data, numerical modeling and laboratory experiments.
 

The venue (Sorbonne Université, faculty of science & engineering) is in Paris City Centre, easily accessible from the airport, and with a huge number of local hotels.
  

The organizing committee:
Sae Aizwa (LPP, France), Lina Hadid (LPP, France), Anna Milillo (INAF, Italy)

 

With financial support of:

 

Monday 21 October

08:30 Breakfast

1 Welcome

Chairs: L. Hadid, S. Aizawa and A. Milillo

Overview: Mission and instrument teams

Convener: Joe Zender

2 Status of BepiColombo mission

Speakers: Geraint Jones, Go Murakami, Johannes Benkhoff

3 MSB4: MPO-MAG Data Overview

Speaker: Daniel Heyner

4 (ONLINE) Extreme SW before MSB4

Speaker: Beatriz Sanchez-Cano

10:30 Coffee break

Overview: Instrument teams

Convener: Jim Raines

5 MSB4: SERENA overview

Speaker: Anna Milillo

6 Strofio: A Status Update

Speaker: Jared Schroeder

7 MSB4: MPPE overview

Speaker: Yoshifumi Saito

12:20 Lunch break

CME and Boundaries

Convener: George Ho

8 (ONLINE) Multispacecraft observations of CME interactions in the inner heliosphere

Speaker: Benoit Lavraud

9 MESSENGER Observations of Possible Alfvén Wing during ICME Event at Mercury

Speaker: Charles Bower

10 Investigation of MESSENGERs Bow Shock crossings

Speaker: Kristin Pump

11 Impact of solar wind turbulence on a planetary bow shock: A global 3D simulation

Speaker: Luis Preisser

15:20 Coffee break

Boundaries and wave dynamics

Convener: Daniel Schmid

12 Mercury's Mirror Modes?

Speaker: Martin Volwerk

13 A study of Mercury's magnetospheric boundaries with MESSENGER data

Speaker: Daragh Hollman

14 Investigation of the Low Latitude Boundary Layer (LLBL) in Mercury’s Magnetosphere Using MESSENGER data

Speaker: Xue Wang

15 First observations of whistler waves in the Hermean environment and impact on electrons

Speaker: Fouad Sahraoui

17:10 Need to leave the room at 18:00

18:30 Dinner Cocktail (in Tower Zamansky 24th floor)

Tuesday 22 October

08:30 Breakfast

Planetary ions from the surface to exosphere, magnetosphere

Convener: Kazushi Asamura

16 MIPA results from the four Mercury flybys

Speaker: Dr Hayley Williamson

17 Solar wind precipitation onto the Mercury surface: MMO/ENA measurements

Speaker: Dr Yoshifumi Futaata

18 Hybrid Modelling: H+ and Na+ Energy Spectrum Catalogue

Speaker: Mr Daniel ​​Teubenbacher

10:10 coffee break

Planetary ions from the surface to exosphere, magnetosphere

Convener: Ali Varsani

19 Modeling Helium in the Hermean magnetosphere

Speaker: Mr Fabio Prencipe

20 Mercury Helium update

Speaker: Dr Markus Fraenz

21 Hybrid simulation of solar wind proton precipitation

Speaker: Dominique Fontaine

22 PHEBUS update

Speaker: Dr Rozenn Robidel

12:00 Social Lunch at le train bleu

Interaction and connection with Surface

Convener: Johannes Benkhoff

23 (Online) SIXS observation during MSB4

Speaker: SIXS team

24 Molecular Dynamics Models to Better Understand the Interaction of Adsorbed Sodium Atoms onto Silicate Surfaces

Speaker: Ms Amanda Ricketts

25 Atomic Approaches to Better Understand the Surface Exosphere Connection on Airless Bodies

Speaker: Liam Morrissay

26 A summary of Hermean Environment discussions at the recent Mercury Lab meeting

Speaker: Dr Simon Lindsay

miscellaneous

Convener: Dr Johannes Benkhoff

27 HEWG panel for extended mission strategy report

Speaker: Dr Stefano Orsini

Closing remarks

Convener: Sae, Lina, Anna