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 → 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 → 09:20 Welcome

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

09:20 → 10:30 Overview: Mission and instrument teams

Convener: Joe Zender

09:20 Status of BepiColombo mission

Speakers: Geraint Jones, Go Murakami, Johannes Benkhoff

09:50 MSB4: MPO-MAG Data Overview

Speaker: Daniel Heyner

10:10 (ONLINE) Extreme SW before MSB4

Speaker: Beatriz Sanchez-Cano

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:20 Overview: Instrument teams

Convener: Jim Raines

11:00 MSB4: SERENA overview

Speaker: Anna Milillo

11:30 Strofio: A Status Update

Speaker: Jared Schroeder

11:50 MSB4: MPPE overview

Speaker: Yoshifumi Saito

12:20 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:20 CME and Boundaries

Convener: George Ho

14:00 (ONLINE) Multispacecraft observations of CME interactions in the inner heliosphere

Speaker: Benoit Lavraud

14:20 MESSENGER Observations of Possible Alfvén Wing during ICME Event at Mercury

Speaker: Charles Bower

14:40 Investigation of MESSENGERs Bow Shock crossings

Speaker: Kristin Pump

15:00 Impact of solar wind turbulence on a planetary bow shock: A global 3D simulation

Speaker: Luis Preisser

15:20 → 15:50 Coffee break

15:50 → 17:10 Boundaries and wave dynamics

Convener: Daniel Schmid

15:50 Mercury's Mirror Modes?

Speaker: Martin Volwerk

16:10 A study of Mercury's magnetospheric boundaries with MESSENGER data

Speaker: Daragh Hollman

16:30 Investigation of the Low Latitude Boundary Layer (LLBL) in Mercury’s Magnetosphere Using MESSENGER data

Speaker: Xue Wang

16:50 First observations of whistler waves in the Hermean environment and impact on electrons

Speaker: Fouad Sahraoui

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

18:30 → 21:00 Dinner Cocktail (in Tower Zamansky 24th floor)

Tuesday, 22 October

08:30 → 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 → 10:10 Planetary ions from the surface to exosphere, magnetosphere

Convener: Kazushi Asamura

09:00 MIPA results from the four Mercury flybys

Speaker: Dr Hayley Williamson

09:20 Solar wind precipitation onto the Mercury surface: MMO/ENA measurements

Speaker: Dr Yoshifumi Futaata

09:40 Hybrid Modelling: H+ and Na+ Energy Spectrum Catalogue

Speaker: Mr Daniel ​​Teubenbacher

10:10 → 10:40 coffee break

10:40 → 12:00 Planetary ions from the surface to exosphere, magnetosphere

Convener: Ali Varsani

10:40 Modeling Helium in the Hermean magnetosphere

Speaker: Mr Fabio Prencipe

11:00 Mercury Helium update

Speaker: Dr Markus Fraenz

11:20 Hybrid simulation of solar wind proton precipitation

Speaker: Dominique Fontaine

11:40 PHEBUS update

Speaker: Dr Rozenn Robidel

12:00 → 15:30 Social Lunch at le train bleu

15:30 → 16:50 Interaction and connection with Surface

Convener: Johannes Benkhoff

15:30 (Online) SIXS observation during MSB4

Speaker: SIXS team

15:50 Molecular Dynamics Models to Better Understand the Interaction of Adsorbed Sodium Atoms onto Silicate Surfaces

Speaker: Ms Amanda Ricketts

16:10 Atomic Approaches to Better Understand the Surface Exosphere Connection on Airless Bodies

Speaker: Liam Morrissay

16:30 A summary of Hermean Environment discussions at the recent Mercury Lab meeting

Speaker: Dr Simon Lindsay

16:50 → 17:10 miscellaneous

Convener: Dr Johannes Benkhoff

16:50 HEWG panel for extended mission strategy report

Speaker: Dr Stefano Orsini

17:10 → 17:20 Closing remarks

Convener: Sae, Lina, Anna