Understanding Plasma Acceleration and Transport in Mercury's Magnetosphere using Global Particle in Cell Simulations
David Schriver1, Pavel M. Travnicek2, Giovanni Lapenta3, Nicole Echterling4, Jorge Amaya5, Robert L Richard6, Jean Berchem6, Mostafa El-Alaoui7 and Petr Hellinger8, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)KU Leuven, Mathematics, Leuven, Belgium, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Department of Mathematics, Leuven, Belgium, (6)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (7)UCLA, Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, United States, (8)Astronomical Institute, CAS, Ondrejov/Prague, Czech Republic