2007 ILWS Meeting, Uppsala, Sweden, 11-13 June 2007 Report on UK activities Chris Castelli Science Programme Office Sue Horne now has responsibility for the ESA Aurora Programme
Jan 15, 2016
2007 ILWS Meeting, Uppsala, Sweden, 11-13 June 2007
Report on UK activities
Chris Castelli
Science Programme Office
Sue Horne now has responsibility for the ESA Aurora Programme
2007 ILWS Meeting, Uppsala, Sweden, 11-13 June 2007
Talk Overview
Missions in operation & under development
• EIS (Hinode/Solar-B), Heliospheric Imager (NASA Stereo) and Solar Dynamics Observatory SDO
Missions under study and new opportunities
• Solar Orbiter (ESA/NASA)
• KuaFu (CNSA)
• ESA Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 – potential participation from UK
• ASPIICS on Proba-3 (ESA) – status following phase A
• NASA SMEX (AO Oct 2007) – potential UK involvement
2007 ILWS Meeting, Uppsala, Sweden, 11-13 June 2007
• Creation of STFC on 1st April 2007 through merger of PPARC and CCLRC
• Motivation:
Increase international competitiveness
Enable world class research
Deliver access to state-of-the-art facilities
Increase economic impact Enable greater 2-way knowledge exchange – industry, universities,
STFC’s labs
• Broad science base – Space science, particle physics, synchrotron radiation, nuclear physics, neutron sources etc.
• Comprehensive programmatic review started – looking at whole science and technology programme strategy and developing a robust future investment plan
• National Space Technology Programme
Research Council Up-date
2007 ILWS Meeting, Uppsala, Sweden, 11-13 June 2007
The Harwell / RAL Campus
2007 ILWS Meeting, Uppsala, Sweden, 11-13 June 2007
Management structure
Council
CEOCorporate Office
Director International Relations
Knowledge ExchangeScience
Programme Office Facility Operations Finance Director Administration
CommercialisationCampus DevelopmentProgrammesNetworksEconomic Impact
Science Strategy
Science Programme Management
Programme & ProjectPeer review
Education & Training
International Strategy
Representation & Subscriptions (CERN,ESO, ESA, ILL, ESRF,Gemini, DIAMOND)
Grants
Project Oversight
Science & Society
Facilities (ISIS, SRS,ING, JAC, CLF)
Technology (RAL, DL, ATC)
Science Programme Support
Project ManagementSupport
Finance
Agreements/Contracts
Legal
Shareholder
HR/Employee Relations
Information Systems
Information Management
Health, Safety & Security
Efficiency & ChangeManagement
Shared Services
Premises
Corporate Strategy
Council Business
Communications
2007 ILWS Meeting, Uppsala, Sweden, 11-13 June 2007
EIS on Hinode
• Hinode (Solar-B) launched 22 Sept 2006
• UK PI on the EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) with significant contribution from NRL on optics
• Principle aim of making spectroscopic observations over a wide range of temperatures for plasma velocity, motion and energy measurements
2007 ILWS Meeting, Uppsala, Sweden, 11-13 June 2007
EIS on Hinode
Hinode Science Meeting – Announcing First Results
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland 20-24th August 2007
http://msslxr.mssl.ucl.ac.uk:8080/SolarB/Announce.jsp
Data policy – science community have access to data after first 6 months of observations as soon as processed by ISAS
Full Hinode data available from 27 May 2007 (DARTS at Hinode Data Centre)
UK EIS data activities – analysis tools available as part SolarSoft
EIS search and data archive available online http://msslxr.mssl.ucl.ac.uk:8080/SolarB/SearchArchive.jsp
2007 ILWS Meeting, Uppsala, Sweden, 11-13 June 2007
Heliospheric Imagers for the Stereo
NASA Stereo launched in October 2007
UK provided the Heliospheric Imagers instrument - built by a consortium led by RAL and the University of Birmingham (UK), CSL (Belgium) + engineering input from Swales
HI is designed to observe the space between the Sun and the Earth (12 to 300 Rs) in order to watch for solar storms driven CMEs as they head our way.
HI data is available via Stereo website and mirrored in UKSSDC (RAL)
Stereo at APL, Johns Hopkins University
2007 ILWS Meeting, Uppsala, Sweden, 11-13 June 2007
NASA Stereo
Zoomed in movie showing the same comet later showing wiggles as it interacts with the solar wind
Movie sequence taken on April 20 shows a CME hitting Comet Encke - the comet tail is whipped off and flies back away from the Sun. A new tails forms
2007 ILWS Meeting, Uppsala, Sweden, 11-13 June 2007
CMEs along with Venus and Mercury observed by HI
Venus/Mercury movies
2007 ILWS Meeting, Uppsala, Sweden, 11-13 June 2007
Solar Dynamics Observatory
• RAL responsible for the CCD camera design & build
• 8 flight units delivered for AIA and HMI instruments to Lockheed Martin and Stanford
• New 4kx4k pixel CCD development with e2v (UK)
• 2 Mpixels/s Quad readout
• Requirements for high dynamic range, low noise, and low power
2007 ILWS Meeting, Uppsala, Sweden, 11-13 June 2007
KuaFu
• UK sees collaboration with China as strategically important – MoU between CNSA & BNSC on framework of space science & technology cooperation
• Excellent science & fills a role not currently covered by ESA’s programme, exploring the energy flow from the solar wind (at L1) to the magnetosphere and ionosphere
• International coordination meeting, China (Jan 2007) - Mission not yet selected within the programme being developed by CNSA
• Early funding for studies during pre-Phase A Novel x-ray focussing optics for the auroal imager instrument
• Part of comprehensive review to clarify science objectives and payloads and decision end 2007
• UK involvement:Auroral imager (Leicester Uni), medium and low energy plasma Instruments (MSSL, RAL), magnetometer (Imperial) and a MOSES type spectrographic imager (MSSL)
2007 ILWS Meeting, Uppsala, Sweden, 11-13 June 2007
Solar Orbiter
• UK involvement in Solar Orbiter is high priority for community – STFC roadmap
• Schedule leading to 2015 launch requires early release of instrument AO – depending on resolution of merger issues with NASA Sentinels
• Reviewed potential UK involvement as part of an integrated package of instruments proposed to Solar Orbiter
• UK funding design studies for an Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI), Magnetometer, Electron Analyser System (Solar Wind Plasma Analyser) and Spectrometer (EUS)?
• Early system trade studies, accommodation, interfaces, TRL assessment etc.
• UK groups responded in the LoI submitted to ESA in September 2006
• SPRT – full agency support for nationally provided payloads
2007 ILWS Meeting, Uppsala, Sweden, 11-13 June 2007
• Electron Analyser System (in-situ instruments)
Part of the Solar Wind Plasma Analyser
Prototype EAS system under test at MSSL thermal vacuum facility based on extensive heritage (e.g. Cluster, Cassini, Venus Express)
Solar Orbiter
• Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI)
European consortium led by Royal Obs Belgium
4 EUV band telescopes sharing a common structure and electronics box (MSSL)
• Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer (EUS)
High resolution imaging spectrometer international consortium led by RAL
Significant advance on Soho CDS, Solar-B EIS
2007 ILWS Meeting, Uppsala, Sweden, 11-13 June 2007
Proba-3 ASPIICS
• ESA technology demonstration missions• 4 counties involved – Sweden, Belgium, UK, Spain with launch ~ 2010/11• The PROBA-3 concept selected by ESA is a giant coronagraph – ASPIICS (led by P. Lamy (LAM, France)• 1 of 4 concepts originally studied at pre-phase A by CNES looking at scientific missions utilising a formation flying demonstration – define mission requirements• With a formation flyer, a two-spacecraft coronagraph is possible – access to high resolution imaging• 100 m spacecraft separation translates into <3 arcsec resolution down to ~ 1.1 Rs • A considerable advance (LASCO C2 resolution is ~70” at 2.2 Rs)• UK industry (Astrium) completed Phase A study Jan 07
2007 ILWS Meeting, Uppsala, Sweden, 11-13 June 2007
ASPIICS aims at achieving conditions close to total eclipses
Ground based image obtained during a total eclipse SOHO/LASCO-C2 coronagraph
Proba-3 ASPIICS
2007 ILWS Meeting, Uppsala, Sweden, 11-13 June 2007
ESA Cosmic Vision 2015-25
COMPASS (Fineschi INAF, Italy) – Coronal Magnetism, Plasma Activity Studies from Space – UK groups RAL
formation flying solar mission with a 100m s/c separation with off-limb and on disk instrument capability
POLARIS (Appourchaux, F) – Polar Investigation of the Sun – UK groups RAL & MSSL
Builds on Solar Orbiter mission concept
Collaboration with NASA (science & technology roadmap identified in ILWS)
Cross-scale (UK leading proposal) - 10 s/c utilising a common design in near-Earth space
In collaboration with JAXA SCOPE mission providing 2 s/c
WARP (Pulkkinen) – Waves and Relativistic Particles (UK groups RAL, UoW, BAS)
Plasma physics of Earth’s inner magnetosphere using constellation of 4 spacecraft
Participation is subject to review by STFC advisory structure
2007 ILWS Meeting, Uppsala, Sweden, 11-13 June 2007
CV2015 timeline
2007 ILWS Meeting, Uppsala, Sweden, 11-13 June 2007
Conclusion
• ILWS clearly very important to UK ground and space based ‘Heliophysics’ community
• Envisage strong participation in future missions e.g. KuaFu, SO, bi-lateral opportunities (SMEX)
• Planning participation in ESA CV1525 taking into account recommendations from SPRT
• Programmatic review will shape UK science strategy for STFC