SHOTS: Comparison of numerical approaches for the solar wind interaction with Mercury’s magnetosphere within the BepiColombo simulation group


Sae Aizawa1,2, Willi Exner3, Léa Sophie Griton4, Shahab Fatemi5, Manabu Yagi6, Jorge Amaya7, Lucas Liuzzo8, Hideyuki Usui9, Go Murakami10, Daniel Heyner11 and Satoki Oki9, (1)LPP, Ecole Polytechnique, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Jussieu, Paris, France, (2)Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, (3)Technical University of Braunschweig, Institute for Geophysics and extraterrestrial Physics, Braunschweig, Germany, (4)LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Univ. Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 5 place Jules Janssen, Meudon, France, (5)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Kiruna, Kiruna, Sweden, (6)RIKEN, R-CCS, Kobe, Japan, (7)Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Department of Mathematics, Leuven, Belgium, (8)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States, (9)Kobe University, Kobe, Japan, (10)ISAS-JAXA, Sagamihara, Japan, (11)TU Braunschweig, Institute of Geophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics, Braunschweig, Germany