Fully Kinetic 3D Simulations of the Interaction of the Solar Wind with Mercury

Jorge Amaya, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Jan Deca, University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, Bertrand Lembege, LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France and Giovanni Lapenta, KU Leuven, Mathematics, Leuven, Belgium