Physical Sciences

Calibration of the BepiColombo environmental radiation monitor (BERM) and cross-calibration with solar intensity X-ray and particle spectrometer (SIXS) during solar energetic particle events

The BepiColombo Environment Radiation Monitor (BERM) is a housekeeping instrument onboard the BepiColombo mission, capable of measuring electron, proton, and heavy-ion fluxes. Due to its quasi-continuous data acquisition throughout all mission …

BepiColombo cruise science: overview of the mission contribution to heliophysics

BepiColombo, the joint ESA/JAXA mission to Mercury, was launched in October 2018 and is scheduled to arrive at Mercury in November 2026 after an 8-year cruise. Like other planetary missions, its scientific objectives focus mostly on the nominal, …

The High-Energy Protons of the Ground Level Enhancement (GLE74) Event on 11 May 2024

High energy solar protons were observed by particle detectors aboard spacecraft in near-Earth orbit on May 11, 2024 and produced the 74th ground level enhancement (GLE74) event registered by ground-based neutron monitors. This study involves a …