| Space Weather Euro News Vol.5 Issue 16 (30-11-2001)
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1. Space Weather Studies Final Presentations,
ESA/ESTEC 6-7 December
2. Magneto-Optical Filter (MOF)
3. URSI GENERAL ASSEMBLY
4. Innovative Telescopes and Instrumentation for Solar
Astrophysics
5. Some ESA Tender Actions from ESA EMITS
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1. Space Weather Studies Final Presentations, ESA/ESTEC 6-7 December
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From: A. Hilgers
Announcement of Space Weather Studies Final Presentations, Newton room,
6-7 December
The final presentations of the ESA space weather studies by the ALCATEL
and RAL
consortia will take place on 6 and 7 December 2001 at ESTEC, Noordwijk,
the
Netherlands. The consortia's presentations will be followed by a series
of presentations
of ESA related activities.
For the last 18 months, ALCATEL and RAL have been performing parallel
studies of a
possible future ESA space weather programme. These studies were funded
by the
Agency's General Studies Programme. The studies have analysed user
requirements
and prepared analyses of space segment options and the ground-based "service
segment".
This work has also been supported by an external Space Weather Working
Team and
by a study with the ESA Concurrent Design Facility (CDF).
Please note that the main purpose of these final presentations is to
perform a thorough
review of the contractors' work while more synthesized presentations
of the work and
more extended discussion of the future plans will take place during the
Space Weather
Workshop of 17 to 19 December 2001 which you are also welcome to attend.
Please also inform interested colleagues in your area.
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Should Hotel reservations be required for visitors
attending your meeting,
Please contact the: ESTEC HOTEL RESERVATION SERVICE
(open daily from 8h30 to 17h15, except Fridays to 16h00)
Tel: INT + 31 71 5655858
Fax: INT + 31 71 5655859
Special rates for a wide range of hotels in Noordwijk areaand
surroundings ONLY via this Service.
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Please announce your participation to CONFERENCE BUREAU:
confburo@estec.esa.nl
A registration form should be available at:
http://www.estec.esa.nl/conferences/FPD/
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AGENDA:
Thursday 6 December
Place: Newton conference room, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.
Start: 8:45
Welcome (A. Hilgers, 5 mins)
Session 1- Overview - Rationale - Benefits - User requirements -
System requirements
( Chair: A. Hilgers)
R1. Overview (RAL, 20 mins)
R2. Detailed Rationale (FMI, 20 mins)
R3. Benefits (QQ, 20 mins)
R4. Market analysis (Astrium, 15 mins)
R5. System requirements (QQ, 20 mins)
Coffee break (10 mins)
A1. Study Flow and Main Achievement (ALC 10 mins)
A2. Users' Community Assessment : bottom-up approach (35 mins)
* Users' Needs (BAS 20 mins)
* Market Assessment (ESYS 15 mins)
A3. Space Weather System Characterization top-down approach (20 mins)
* Parameters & Models overview (LPG,
20 mins)
A4. Space Weather Measurements (30 mins)
* Ground vs Space Instruments (LPSH &
LPG, 10 mins)
* Space Instrumentation and System Requirements
(MSSL, 20 mins)
Open Discussion on Session 1 (20 mins)
12:30 Lunch break
Resume: 13:30
Session 2- Space infrastructure - Ground Infrastructure-
Service - Prototype
- Programmatic - Cost
(Chair: A. Glover)
A5. Space Weather Space Segment Definition (25 mins)
* System Trade-offs & Satellites Sizing
(ALC, 25 mins)
A6. Space Weather Services & Prototyping (40 mins)
* Prototype IC ( IC, 15 mins)
* Prototype IRF (IRF, 15 mins)
* Services (IRF, 10 mins)
A7. Space Weather System Proposal (45 mins)
* Ground measurements (LPSH & LPG, 10
mins)
* System Scenarios & Pilot Projects (ALC,
15 mins)
* New Structures, programmatics & Cost
(ALC&LPCE, 20 mins)
A8. Conclusions & Issues (ALC, 10 mins)
Coffee Break
R6. Space segment definition including instrument definition (Astrium,
40 mins)
R7. Ground segment (RAL, 30 mins)
R8. Prototype (BIRA, 20 mins)
R9. Programmatics - costs, risks, collaboration, etc. (RAL/Astrium,
30 mins)
Open Discussion on Session 2
Cocktail 18:00.
Friday 7 December 2001 (morning only)
Place: Newton conference room, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.
Start 9:00
Session 3: ESA Current Space Weather Assets and Future Plans
(Chair: E. Daly)
- Space Weather Models (E. Daly, 20 mins)
- EGNOS (B. Arbesser-Rastburg, 20 mins)
- Environment Induced Satellite Anomalies (A. Hilgers, 20 mins)
10:00 Coffee Break (10 mins)
- Hitchhikers (P. Nieminen, 20 mins)
- Spacecraft mission (A. Glover, 20 mins)
- Data Infrastructure (H. Evans, 20 mins)
Presentation of ESA CDF activity (A. Santovincenzo, 60 min)
Pilot Project (A. Hilgers, 10 mins)
Roadmap (E. Daly, 10 mins)
Open discussion (30 mins)
Conclusion
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2. Magneto-Optical Filter (MOF)
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From: Alessandro
Cacciani
Magneto-Optical Filters (MOF) are in use at several institute around
the world. One
particular advantage of this technology for Space Weather applications
is that it can
allow measurement of solar magnetic fields (and/or Doppler fields)
with a very compact
and inexpensive instrument, so that it could be cloned and installed
at several locations,
even where there are not well-equipped observatories. To have a feeling
of what a MOF
can do, please give a look at "www.solobskh.ac.at". A MOF can work
at high cadence
(half a minute) and its dimensions are shown in the schematic drawing
included on the
web site (http://astro1.phys.uniroma1.it/groups.html).
The simultaneous measurement of full disk Doppler field and a possible
set up of a
redundant network of identical instruments could be useful to monitor
rapid magnetic
and Doppler evolution of relevant Active Regions. I am interested to
investigate the
possibility to accomplish such a network in a collaborative effort
among European institutes.
Contact person:
Alessandro Cacciani
Physics Department,
University of Rome "LA SAPIENZA"
http://astro1.phys.uniroma1.it/groups.html
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3. URSI GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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From: Paul Cannon
URSI GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Maastricht, The Netherlands, 17 to 24 August 2002.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Local Organising Committee, through their Website http://www.URSI-GA2002.nl
and other outlets, are advertising the forthcoming General Assembly.
Phil Wilkinson (Commission G Chair) has also extracted some of this
information to produce
further a site http://www.ips.gov.au/ncrs/commg/index.html
emphasising
the Commission
G sessions and the Space Weather orientation of the meeting.
The deadline for receipt of on-line abstracts is January 15, 2002 and
the deadline for the full
paper for the Conference Proceedings is 15 April, 2002.
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4. Innovative Telescopes and Instrumentation for Solar Astrophysics
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From: Sergey Avakyan
There will be a two day SPIE (The International Society for Optical
Engineering) conference
on "Innovative Telescopes and Instrumentation for Solar Astrophysics"
as part of SPIE's
International Symposium on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation
to be held
22-28 August 2002 in Waikoloa, Hawaii. The solar conference is scheduled
for the 22nd
and 23rd. This conference will provide a forum for discussing planned
solar telescopes and
instruments and innovative ideas for the future for both space and
ground. The conference
includes in particular the following topics of Space Weather Program:
space observatories
and experiments (for example, resent results from solar telescopes
in space - e.g., TRACE,
SOHO),imaging coronal mass ejections, imaging spectrometers, high resolution
radio
spectrometers, high resolution (spatial and spectral) coronal studies,
EUV/UV imaging,
spectroscopy and detectors, cleanliness requirement for solar space
missions. For further
information or to submit an abstract visit the SPIE web site at
http://spie.org/Conferences/calls/02/as/
for information about the symposium in general and
http://spie.org/Conferences/calls/02/as/confs/AS20.html
for information about the solar conference.
Abstracts for the conference can be submitted on line and the deadline
for submission is
28 January 2002.
If you have questions about the conference please contact Steve Keil
(National Solar Observatory, USA) at 505 434-7039 and Sergey
Avakyan
(Vavilov State Optical Institute, Russia)
S.Avakyan Head of the Aerospace Physical Optics Lab.
of the S.I.Vavilov
State Optical Institute,
Tuchov lane,
1, St.Petersburg, 199034, Russia
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5. Some ESA Tender Actions from ESA EMITS
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For the complete list of ESA Tender Actions see:
http://emits.esa.int/emits/owa/anonymous.main_menu
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Richard Marsden, ESA science programme
Maurizio Candidi, CNR
Paul Cannon, URSI-Commission G
Mike Hapgood, EGS
Hannu Koskinen, SCOSTEP working group on Space weather
Pierre Lantos, ISES
Henrik Lundstedt, Lund space weather center
Goetz Paschmann, ISSI
Jean-Yves Prado, CNES Programme Directorate
Michael Rycroft, ISU
Volker Bothmer, EGS-Solar Physics Secretary
Wolfgang Baumjohann, IWF Graz, Austria
Jinbin Cao, Chinese Space Weather Activity Representative
Barbara Poppe, NOAA Space Environment Centre
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