HR: 13:40h
AN: SH13B-01 INVITED [Abstracts]
TI: Prospects of the Solar System Environment Observation via ENA Measurements: towards Mercury and the Sun with BepiColombo and Solar Orbiter
AU: * ORSINI, S
EM: stefano.orsini@ifsi-roma.inaf.it
AF: INAF/IFSI, via del Fosso del Cavaliere, 100, ROMA, 00133, Italy
AU: MILILLO, A \
EM: anna.milillo@ifsi-roma.inaf.it
AF: INAF/IFSI, via del Fosso del Cavaliere, 100, ROMA, 00133, Italy
AU: DI LELLIS, A M
EM: amdlspace@gmail.com
AF: AMDL, viale Somalia 133, ROMA, 00199, Italy
AU: MURA, A
EM: alessandro.mura@ifsi-roma.inaf.it
AF: INAF/IFSI, via del Fosso del Cavaliere, 100, ROMA, 00133, Italy
AU: MASSETTI, S
EM: stefano.massetti@ifsi-roma.inaf.it
AF: INAF/IFSI, via del Fosso del Cavaliere, 100, ROMA, 00133, Italy
AU: DE ANGELIS, E
EM: elisabetta.deangelis@ifsi-roma.inaf.it
AF: INAF/IFSI, via del Fosso del Cavaliere, 100, ROMA, 00133, Italy
AB:
Nowadays, more and more interest is growing about the capabilities of investigating crucial aspects of the
particle regimes present in the solar system by means of detection of escaping neutral particle fluxes. Such
studies range form the properties of the expanding corona, to the escape of matter from the planetary surfaces;
from the plasma distributions in the magnetospheres to the interaction between solar and interstellar matter;
from the characteristics of escaping fractions of the planetary atmospheres, to the transfer of energy to the
internal atmospheric regions. Generally speaking, escaping neutral fluxes carry significant information that allow
to study these phenomena in terms of their dynamics. Such an increase of interest in ENA signal detection is
pushing the technological community to produce more and more sophisticated devices, able to accomplish the
scientific goals over a wide spectrum of energies and mass species. This presentation will resume the present
situation and will try to figure the way such aspects will develop in the near future, in view of the next missions
BepiColombo and Solar Orbiter, to explore Mercury and the Sun.
DE: 2151 Neutral particles (7837)
DE: 2164 Solar wind plasma
DE: 5421 Interactions with particles and fields
DE: 6025 Interactions with solar wind plasma and fields
DE: 7837 Neutral particles (2151)
SC: SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics [SH]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting