Modeling of Mercury's pick-up ion dynamics and its response to changes in IMF conditions

Mehdi Benna, James A. Slavin, Menelaos Sarantos, William E. McClintock, Rosemary M. Killen, Matthew H, Burger, Daniel N. Baker, David Schriver, Pavel Travnicek, and Sean C. Solomon 7 1 Solar System Exploration Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA 2 Goddard Earth Science and Technology Center, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA 3 Heliophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA 4 Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, CO, USA 5 Inst. of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA 6 Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic 7 Dept. of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Inst. of Washington, Washington, DC, USA.