The Solar Orbiter Mission: an Energetic Particle Perspective
| Autor: | Raúl Gómez-Herrero, Rodríguez-Pacheco, J., Wimmer-Schweingruber, R. F., Mason, G. M., Sánchez-Prieto, S., Martín, C., Prieto, M., Ho, G. C., Espinosa Lara, F., Cernuda, I., Blanco, J. J., Russu, A., Rodríguez Polo, O., Kulkarni, S. R., Terasa, C., Panitzsch, L., Böttcher, S. I., Boden, S., Heber, B., Steinhagen, J., Tammen, J., Köhler, J., Drews, C., Elftmann, R., Ravanbakhsh, A., Seimetz, L., Schuster, B., Yedla, M., Valtonen, E., Vainio, R. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Physics - Space Physics Physics::Space Physics FOS: Physical sciences Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR) Space Physics (physics.space-ph) |
| Zdroj: | NASA Astrophysics Data System |
| Popis: | Solar Orbiter is a joint ESA-NASA mission planed for launch in October 2018. The science payload includes remote-sensing and in-situ instrumentation designed with the primary goal of understanding how the Sun creates and controls the heliosphere. The spacecraft will follow an elliptical orbit around the Sun, with perihelion as close as 0.28 AU. During the late orbit phase the orbital plane will reach inclinations above 30 degrees, allowing direct observations of the solar polar regions. The Energetic Particle Detector (EPD) is an instrument suite consisting of several sensors measuring electrons, protons and ions over a broad energy interval (2 keV to 15 MeV for electrons, 3 keV to 100 MeV for protons and few tens of keV/nuc to 450 MeV/nuc for ions), providing composition, spectra, timing and anisotropy information. We present an overview of Solar Orbiter from the energetic particle perspective, summarizing the capabilities of EPD and the opportunities that these new observations will provide for understanding how energetic particles are accelerated during solar eruptions and how they propagate through the Heliosphere. XXV ECRS 2016 Proceedings - eConf C16-09-04.3 |
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