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Investigating Mercury's Environment with the Two-Spacecraft BepiColombo Mission
A. Milillo, M. Fujimoto, G. Murakami +76
The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission will provide simultaneous measurements from two spacecraft, offering an unprecedented opportunity to investigate magnetospheric and exospheric dyna…
Particle-particle Particle-tree Code for Planetary System Formation with Individual Cut-off Method: GPLUM
Yota Ishigaki, Junko Kominami, Junichiro Makino +2
In a standard theory of the formation of the planets in our Solar System, terrestrial planets and cores of gas giants are formed through accretion of kilometer-sized objects (plane…
Characteristic time scales of UV and IR auroral emissions at Jupiter and Saturn and their possible observable effects
Chihiro Tao, Sarah V. Badman, Masaki Fujimoto
Different ultraviolet (UV) and infrared (IR) auroral features have been observed at Jupiter and Saturn. Using models related to UV and IR auroral emissions, we estimate the charact…
The Sands of Phobos: The Martian moon's eccentric orbit refreshes its surface
Ronald-Louis Ballouz, Nicola Baresi, Sarah T. Crites +2
The surface of the Martian moon Phobos exhibits two distinct geologic units, known as the red and blue units. The provenance of these regions is uncertain yet crucial to understand…
Suprathermal electrons at Saturn's bow shock
A. Masters, A. H. Sulaiman, N. Sergis +4
The leading explanation for the origin of galactic cosmic rays is particle acceleration at the shocks surrounding young supernova remnants (SNRs), although crucial aspects of the a…
Dust and gas density evolution at a radial pressure bump in protoplanetary disks
Tetsuo Taki, Masaki Fujimoto, Shigeru Ida
We investigate the simultaneous evolution of dust and gas density profiles at a radial pressure bump located in a protoplanetary disk. If dust particles are treated as test particl…
Quasiperpendicular high Mach number Shocks
A. H. Sulaiman, A. Masters, M. K. Dougherty +3
Shock waves exist throughout the universe and are fundamental to understanding the nature of collisionless plasmas. Reformation is a process, driven by microphysics, which typicall…
Electron acceleration to relativistic energies at a strong quasi-parallel shock wave
A. Masters, L. Stawarz, M. Fujimoto +9
Electrons can be accelerated to ultrarelativistic energies at strong (high-Mach number) collisionless shock waves that form when stellar debris rapidly expands after a supernova. C…
Dust Concentration at the Boundary Between Steady Super/Sub-Keplerian Flow Created by Inhomogeneous Growth of MRI
Mariko T. Kato, Masaki Fujimoto, Shigeru Ida
How to create planetesimals from tiny dust particles in a proto-planetary disk before the dust particles spiral to the central star is one of the most challenging problems in the t…
Cross-Scale: Multi-Scale Coupling in Space Plasma, Assessment Study Report
Steve Schwartz, Stuart D. Bale, Masaki Fujimoto +12
Driven by the support and interest of the international space plasma community to examine simultaneous physical plasma scales and their interactions, the Cross-Scale Mission concep…
Modification of Angular Velocity by Inhomogeneous MRI Growth in Protoplanetary Disks
M. T. Kato, K. Nakamura, R. Tandokoro +2
We have investigated evolution of magneto-rotational instability (MRI) in protoplanetary disks that have radially non-uniform magnetic field such that stable and unstable regions c…