Data for ''Determining the Influence of the IMF and Planetary Magnetic Field Models on Mercury's Magnetosphere along Spacecraft Trajectories of MESSENGER, BepiColombo and MPO'

These are the files needed to produce the figures in the paper:"Determining the Influence of the IMF and Planetary Magnetic Field Models on Mercury's Magnetosphere along Spacecraft Trajectories of MESSENGER, BepiColombo and MPO" by Exner et al. (2024). In this paper, we employ different planetary magnetic field models (PMFM) for Mercury and model the magnetospheric response to the upstream solar wind's interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) direction. The PMFMs are representatives for the multitude of available models of Mercury's planetary magnetic field.The representative models differ in their multipole moment strengths of dipole, quadrupole and octupole.The used PMFM classes stand for: D - largest dipolar value : g10=-216. , g20=-57. , g30=-37. Q - largest quadrupolar value : g10=-190. , g20=-75. , g30=-22. O - largest octupolar value : g10=-212.8 , g20=-45.2 , g30=-44.3 The used IMF directions represent commonly encountered IMF directions at Mercury (He et al. (2017) doi: 10.1002/2016JA023687, James et al. (2019) doi: 10.1002/2017JA024435).The used IMF cases are: pnp pnp npn npp and indicate the polarity of the IMF Bx, By, and Bz component in the MASO coordinate system.E.g. pnp stands for IMF Bx = + 14 nT, p, IMF By = - 8 nT, n, IMF Bz = + 6 nT, p. The MASO coordinate system (Mercury Anti-Solar Orbital) is a planet-centered system. The X- component is aligned with the upstream solar wind direction. The Z- component is antiparallel to the planetary rotation axis (Also antiparallel to magnetic moment of Mercury) and points northwards. The Y- component completes the right-handed system and points roughly into Mercury's orbital motion. Under the assumption that aberration angles can be omitted, the MASO system is easily converted into the more usual system MSO (Mercury Solar Orbital) by switching the polarity of the X- and Y- components while leaving the Z- component unchanged. The trajectories considered in this study are named as follows: M1 : MESSENGER's first flyby, M2 : MESSENGER's second flyby, MSB1 : BepiColombo's first swingby, MSB2 : BepiColombo's second swingby, MSB3 : BepiColombo's third swingby, MSB4 : BepiColombo's fourth swingby, (MSB5 : BepiColombo's fifth swingby, omitted due to its closest approach being too far away from the planet to be considered in this study), MSB6 : BepiColombo's sixth swingby, MPO+descendingApoherm The descending apoherm for each MPO or