Space Weather Euro News
Vol. 13, Issue 9 (5 November 2009)
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1. SSA Space Weather Industry day - 13 Nov 2009 - ESOC
2. Call for Abstracts to "Waves and Turbulence in Solar-Terrestrial Plasmas"
3. New book: "The Earth s Plasmasphere: A Cluster and Image Perspective"
4. 150 years since the Carrington Event
5. Some ESA Tender Actions from ESA-EMITS
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1. SSA Space Weather Industry day - 13 Nov 2009 - ESOC
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From: Juha-Pekka Luntama <Juha-Pekka.Luntama at esa.int>
Day: 13.11.2009
Time: 10.00 hrs 15.00 hrs
Place: H-I, ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany.
Subject SSA Space Weather Industry day
Deadline Registration not later than 07.11.2009, COB
The Agency intends to prepare the activities SN-I and SN-II of the Space Situational Awareness
Programme by holding an industry day. This industry day is intended to allow industry to
collect up-front information about the intended activities for preparation of their
participation in SN-I and SN-II.
SN-I: Space Weather Services (IITT ref. 09.118.08)
Subject of SN-I will be the definition and service consolidation of the SSA Space Weather (SWE).
The SWE is foreseen to include service domains for:
spacecraft designers
spacecraft operators
launchers
human space flights
transionospheric radio link users
space survey and tracking
non space system operators (power system, airline, etc
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general data:
-- data
-- global space weather modelling
The SN-I activity will be performed in two phases. The first phase will focus on the review
of the existing assets (sensors, services, operational models, potential platforms for future
sensors) in the area of Space Weather, on the identification of the constraints and conditions
for their use in the context of the SSA programme, and on the definition of the deployment
plan of the SWE Segment precursor services. The second phase of the SN-I will focus on the
deployment and operation of the initial SWE Segment precursor services, assessment of the
service concepts and user feedback, and specification of the service enhancements.
To support the assessment of the service concepts and to gather user feedback from all
service domains, provisions of simulated user services are foreseen for some domains. The
simulated services will be based on mock-ups based on actual components available in Europe
(sensors, data streams, running software) or on virtual user interactions (e.g.,
representative services, CDF, interviews).
SN-II: Weather Instruments (IITT ref. 09.118.09)
Subject of SN-II will be to consider the requirements for space weather information and to
investigate:
the instruments needed to satisfy these requirements,
the required location(s) of the measurements,
the characteristics of the instruments and of spacecraft already planned to be flown in
suitable orbits,
spacecraft that could be adapted for a dedicated mission should a piggy-back mission be
found inappropriate.
The space weather measurement infrastructure will rely on ground based and space based sensors
of the geomagnetic field, the plasma and charged energetic particles and radiations. New
instrument developments with low TRL are foreseen to be performed within ESA technology
research programmes and especially GSTP 5 in the 2010-2012 time frame. Several space weather
monitoring instruments are foreseen to be flown on planned ESA and European partner spacecraft.
The scope of the SN-II activity includes implementation design studies for the instruments,
negotiating initial agreements about the instrument inclusions and cost estimations for the
missions.
Location and registration
The industry day is planned to take place at ESOC (Robert-Bosch-Str.5, D-64293 Darmstadt,
Germany) on Friday 13 November 2009 and shall be split in two sessions. The first session
(10.00 - 12.00 hrs) will focus on SN-I. After a lunch break the second session (13.00 hrs
15.00 hrs)will focus on SN-II. Both sessions will encompass a presentation by a technical
representative of the Agency and an extended opportunity for questions and answers.
Please register for your participation not later than 07.11.2009, COB by e-mail to
Ms Michele Fischer, e-mail: Michele.Fischer at esa.int. Please name the company
and max. 3 participants.
If you want to attend only one of the above announced presentations, please indicate which
oneyou want to attend. If no indication for one particular presentation is given, we assume
that you will attend both presentations.
Please note that every participant has to present an ID, passport or equivalent document to
getpermission on-side. Only the persons announced to participate will be granted access.
If you already have specific questions related to the SN-1 and SN-II activities, please send
them by email to Mr. Juha-Pekka Luntama, email: Juha-Pekka.Luntama at esa.int
by Tuesday 10 November 2009.
These questions will then be addressed during the presentations. There will be no minutes or
other forms of records taken for official purpose. No questions and answers will be published
thereafter on EMITS (http://emits.esa.int).
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2. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS TO "Waves and Turbulence in Solar-Terrestrial Plasmas"
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From: Claire Foullon <Claire.Foullon at warwick.ac.uk>
Claire Foullon
Centre for Fusion, Space & Astrophysics
University of Warwick, UK
Claire.Foullon at warwick.ac.uk
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS TO
"Waves and Turbulence in Solar-Terrestrial Plasmas"
Royal Astronomical Society Specialist Discussion Meeting
RAS Lecture Theatre, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London
Friday 12 March 2010
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Wave and turbulent phenomena are fundamental physical processes that have been shown
through remote and in-situ observations to occur ubiquitously in all types of solar-terrestrial
plasmas, ranging from the Sun, solar wind, magnetosphere to the ionosphere. They are
intricately connected with coronal dynamics and heating, solar wind acceleration and
interaction with the Earth's magnetosphere and upper atmosphere. The aim of this meeting is
to bring together researchers from the different disciplines to compare theoretical and
observational results on waves and turbulence, including shocks. The meeting will provide a
forum to share seismological or spectral analysis techniques, and to address interdisciplinary
questions such as the solar origin of turbulence in the solar wind and the solar wind drivers
of magnetospheric pulsations and ionospheric turbulence. Presentations on applications from
planetary and astrophysical research areas are also welcome.
Confirmed invited speakers:
Steven Cranmer (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Boston,
USA)
Roberto Bruno (Institute of Physics of Interplanetary Space, Rome, Italy)
Tim Yeoman (University of Leicester, UK)
Contributions for oral and poster presentations are now solicited.
Abstract submission deadlines: February 8, 2010 (oral) or February 22, 2010 (poster)
Conveners:
Erwin Verwichte (erwin.verwichte@warwick.ac.uk)
Claire Foullon (claire.foullon@warwick.ac.uk)
Bogdan Hnat (b.hnat@warwick.ac.uk)
University of Warwick, UK
For abstract submission, registration, and more information, see the meeting website:
http://go.warwick.ac.uk/ras2010
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3. New book: The Earth s Plasmasphere: A Cluster and Image Perspective
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From: Johan De Keyser <Johan.DeKeyser at aeronomie.be>
Following a workshop "The Earth's plasmasphere: A CLUSTER, IMAGE, and modeling
perspective", organized in September 2007 by the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, a
group of scientists prepared a review of NASA's IMAGE and ESA's CLUSTER
accomplishments in the field of plasmaspheric science. Six review papers have been
published in Space Science Reviews (Volume 145, Issues 1-2, 2009). This collection has
now been published as a book:
The Earth's Plasmasphere: A Cluster and Image Perspective
F. Darrouzet, J. De Keyser, and V. Pierrard (eds.),
Springer, 296 pages, 100 illustr., 60 in color., 2009
ISBN 978-1-4419-1322-7, Hardcover
http://www.springer.com/astronomy/extraterrestrial+physics/book/978-1-4419-1322-7
Contents:
Chapter
- Preface (James L. Burch and C. Philippe Escoubet)
- Foreword (Fabien Darrouzet, Johan De Keyser and Viviane Pierrard)
- CLUSTER and IMAGE: New Ways to Study the Earths Plasmasphere (Johan De Keyser,
Donald L. Carpenter, Fabien Darrouzet, Dennis L. Gallagher and Jiannan Tu)
- Plasmaspheric Density Structures and Dynamics: Properties Observed by the CLUSTER
and IMAGE Missions (Fabien Darrouzet, Dennis L. Gallagher, Nicolas André, Donald L.
Carpenter, Iannis Dandouras, Pierrette M. E. Décréau, Johan De Keyser, Richard E. Denton,
John C. Foster, Jerry Goldstein, Mark B. Moldwin, Bodo W. Reinisch, Bill R. Sandel and
Jiannan Tu)
- Electric Fields and Magnetic Fields in the Plasmasphere: A Perspective from CLUSTER
and IMAGE (Hiroshi Matsui, John C. Foster, Donald L. Carpenter, Iannis Dandouras, Fabien
Darrouzet, Johan De Keyser, Dennis L. Gallagher, Jerry Goldstein, Pamela A. Puhl-Quinn
and Claire Vallat)
- Advances in Plasmaspheric Wave Research with CLUSTER and IMAGE Observations
(Arnaud Masson, Ondrej Santolík, Donald L. Carpenter, Fabien Darrouzet, Pierrette M. E.
Décréau, Farida El-Lemdani Mazouz, James L. Green, Sandrine Grimald, Mark B. Moldwin,
Frantiek N?mec and Vikas S. Sonwalkar)
- Recent Progress in Physics-Based Models of the Plasmasphere (Viviane Pierrard, Jerry
Goldstein, Nicolas André, Vania K. Jordanova, Galina A. Kotova, Joseph F. Lemaire, Mike
W. Liemohn and Hiroshi Matsui)
- Augmented Empirical Models of Plasmaspheric Density and Electric Field Using IMAGE
and CLUSTER Data (Bodo W. Reinisch, Mark B. Moldwin, Richard E. Denton, Dennis L.
Gallagher, Hiroshi Matsui, Viviane Pierrard and Jiannan Tu)
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4. 150 years since the Carrington Event
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From: Jens Rodmann <Jens.Rodmann at esa.int>
150 years ago, on September 1st 1859, Richard C. Carrington made the first observation of a
solar flare. The following day, a huge geomagnetic storm hit, brilliant aurorae were visible
all across the Earth, and telegraph operators could sent messages with disconnected batteries
using "atmospheric current" alone. The Sun-Earth connection was made -- the rest is history.
To commemorate this first 'space weather' event, we thought we share with you Carrington's
original paper.
Title: Description of a Singular Appearance seen in the Sun on September 1, 1859
Authors: Carrington, R. C.
Journal: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 20, p.13-15
Bibliographic Code: 1859MNRAS..20...13C
Link: http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1859MNRAS..20...13C.
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5. Some ESA Tender Actions from ESA-EMITS
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AO6125 DEVELOPMENT OF THE SWARM LEVEL 2 ALGORITHMS AND
ASSOCIATED LEVEL 2 PROCESSING FACILITY
(From 19/10/2009 to 11/12/2009, Act.Ref.: 09.156.03)
AO6254 RADIATION HARD MEMORY
(From 14/10/2009 to 24/11/2009, Act.Ref.: 09.1QC.01)
AO6218 SIMPLIFIED STANDARD MEO/GEO TOOLS FOR SPACECRAFT
CHARGING
(From 07/10/2009 to 25/11/2009, Act.Ref.: 08.1EE.16)
AO6263 RAD-HARD ELECTRON MONITOR
(From 06/10/2009 to 01/12/2009, Act.Ref.: 09.1EE.04)
AO6077 RADIO TRACKING OF A LANDED SPACECRAFT: DETERMINATION
OF THE SPACECRAFT POSITION AND THE PLANET'S EPHEMERIS AND
ORIENTATION IN SPACE
(From 23/09/2009 to 04/11/2009, Act.Ref.: 09.112.11)
AO6242 CALIBRATION LOADS FOR RADIOMETERS
(From 21/09/2009 to 01/12/2009, Act.Ref.: 08.1ET.04)
For a complete list of ESA Tender Actions, see: http://emits.esa.int
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Maurizio Candidi CNR
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Francois Lefeuvre CNRS
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