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SERENA: Particle Instrument Suite for Determining the Sun-Mercury Interaction from BepiColombo

Stefano Orsini ^{1, *} S. A. Livi ^{2, 3} H. Lichtenegger ⁴ S. Barabash ⁵ A. Milillo ¹ E. De Angelis ¹ M. Phillips ² G. Laky ⁴ M. Wieser ⁵ A. Olivieri ⁶ C. Plainaki ⁶ G. Ho ⁷ R. M. Killen ⁸ J. A. Slavin ³ P. Wurz ⁹ Jean-Jacques Berthelier ¹⁰ I. Dandouras ¹¹ E. Kallio ¹² S. Mckenna-Lawlor ¹³ S. Szalai ¹⁴ K. Torkar ⁴ O. Vaisberg ¹⁵ F. Allegrini ² I. A. Daglis ¹⁶ C. Dong ¹⁷ C. P. Escoubet ¹⁸ S. Fatemi ⁵ M. Fränz ¹⁹ S. Ivanovski ²⁰ N. Krupp ¹⁹ H. Lammer ⁴ François Leblanc ¹⁰ V. Mangano ¹ A. Mura ¹ H. Nilsson ⁵ J. M. Raines ³ R. Rispoli ¹ M. Sarantos ⁸ H. T. Smith ⁷ K. Szego ¹⁴ A. Aronica ¹ F. Camozzi A. M. Di Lellis G. Fremuth ²¹ F. Giner ²¹ R. Gurnee ²² J. Hayes ⁷ H. Jeszenszky ⁴ F. Tominetti B. Trantham ² J. Balaz ¹³ W. Baumjohann ⁴ D. Brienza ¹ U. Buhrke ¹⁹ M. D. Bush ⁹ M. Cantatore S. Cibella ²³ L. Colasanti ¹ Gabriele Cremonese ²⁴ L. Cremonesi M. D’alessandro ²⁵ Dominique Delcourt ²⁶ M. Delva ⁴ M. Desai ² M. Fama ²⁷ M. Ferris ² H. Fischer ¹⁹ A. Gaggero ²³ D. Gamborino ²⁸ P. Garnier ¹¹ W. C. Gibson ² R. Goldstein ² M. Grande ²⁹ V. Grishin ¹⁵ D. Haggerty ⁷ M. Holmström ⁵ I. Horvath ¹⁴ K.-C. Hsieh ³⁰ A. Jacques ⁸ R. E. Johnson ³¹ A. Kazakov ¹ K. Kecskemety ¹⁴ H. Krüger ¹⁹ C. Kürbisch ⁴ F. Lazzarotto ²⁴ Frederic Leblanc ³² M. Leichtfried ⁴ R. Leoni ²³ A. Loose ¹⁹ D. Maschietti S. Massetti ¹ F. Mattioli ²³ G. Miller ² D. Moissenko ¹⁵ A. Morbidini ¹ R. Noschese ¹ F. Nuccilli ¹ C. Nunez ² N. Paschalidis ⁸ S. Persyn ² D. Piazza ²⁸ M. Oja ⁵ J. Rynö ³³ W. Schmidt ³³ J. A. Scheer A. Shestakov ¹⁵ S. Shuvalov ¹⁵ K. Seki ³⁴ S. Selci ²³ K. Smith ² R. Sordini ¹ J. Svensson ³⁵ L. Szalai ¹⁴ D. Toublanc ¹¹ C. Urdiales ² A. Varsani ⁴ N. Vertolli ¹ R. Wallner ⁴ P. Wahlstroem ²⁸ P. Wilson ² S. Sampieri ¹

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1 IAPS - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali - INAF

2 SwRI - Southwest Research Institute [San Antonio]

3 CLaSP - Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

4 IWF - Space Research Institute of Austrian Academy of Sciences

5 IRF - Swedish Institute of Space Physics [Kiruna]

6 Italian Space Agency

7 APL - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory [Laurel, MD]

8 GSFC - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

9 Physics Institute [Bern]

10 HELIOS - LATMOS

LATMOS - Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales

11 IRAP - Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie

12 Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering [Espoo]

13 Space Technology Ireland Limited

14 Wigner Research Centre for Physics [Budapest]

15 IKI - Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

16 Department of Physics [Athens]

17 PPPL - Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

18 RSSD - Research and Scientific Support Department, ESTEC

19 MPS - Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung

20 OAT - INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste

21 IWF - Institut für Weltraumforschung = Space Research institute [Graz]

22 LASP - Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics [Boulder]

23 IFN - CNR Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies

24 OAPD - INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova

25 CNR-ISM - Istituto di Struttura della Materia

26 LPC2E - Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace

27 CNEA - Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica [ARGENTINA]

28 Physikalisches Institut [Bern]

29 Institute of Mathematical and Physical Sciences [Aberystwyth]

30 University of Arizona

31 MS - Department of Materials Science and Engineering [Charlottesville]

32 LPP - Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas

33 FMI - Finnish Meteorological Institute

34 Department of Earth and Planetary Science [Tokyo]

35 EISCAT Scientific Association [Sweden]

Abstract : The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury will provide simultaneous measurements from two spacecraft, offering an unprecedented opportunity to investigate magnetospheric and exospheric particle dynamics at Mercury as well as their interactions with solar wind, solar radiation, and interplanetary dust. The particle instrument suite SERENA (Search for Exospheric Refilling and Emitted Natural Abundances) is flying in space on-board the BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and is the only instrument for ion and neutral particle detection aboard the MPO. It comprises four independent sensors: ELENA for neutral particle flow detection, Strofio for neutral gas detection, PICAM for planetary ions observations, and MIPA, mostly for solar wind ion measurements. SERENA is managed by a System Control Unit located inside the ELENA box. In the present paper the scientific goals of this suite are described, and then the four units are detailed, as well as their major features and calibration results. Finally, the SERENA operational activities are shown during the orbital path around Mercury, with also some reference to the activities planned during the long cruise phase.

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Sciences of the Universe [physics]

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