Tools for aiding in the handling of data and the creation of publication ready plots from spacecraft around Mercury.
Pre-publishing, this package can be installed manually from source.
git clone https://github.com/daraghhollman/hermpy
cd hermpy/
pip install .Examples can be found in the examples/ directory.
Average magnetosphere boundary model
Winslow, R. M., B. J. Anderson, C. L. Johnson, J. A. Slavin, H. Korth, M. E. Purucker, D. N. Baker, and S. C. Solomon (2013), Mercury’s magnetopause and bow shock from MESSENGER Magnetometer observations, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 118, 2213–2227, doi:10.1002/jgra.50237
Boundary Crossing Lists
Philpott, L. C., Johnson, C. L., Anderson, B. J., & Winslow, R. M. (2020). The shape of Mercury's magnetopause: The picture from MESSENGER magnetometer observations and future prospects for BepiColombo. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 125, e2019JA027544. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA027544
Sun, W. (2023). Lists of Magnetopause and Bow Shock Crossings of Mercury by MESSENGER Spacecraft (August 29th, 2023) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8298647
Trajectory Data
Annex et al., (2020). SpiceyPy: a Pythonic Wrapper for the SPICE Toolkit. Journal of Open Source Software, 5(46), 2050, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.02050
Acton, C.H.; "Ancillary Data Services of NASA's Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility;" Planetary and Space Science, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 65-70, 1996.