Studying the dynamics of Mercury’s magnetotail with the MHD-EPIC model


Yuxi Chen1, Gabor Toth2, Xianzhe Jia3, James A Slavin4, Stefano Markidis5 and Tamas I Gombosi2, (1)Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, (2)University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (3)University of Michigan, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (4)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (5)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden