Post on 17-Jan-2016
ILWS Activities AUSTRIA
Rumi Nakamura and Helmut O. Rucker
Space Research InstituteAustrian Academy of Sciences
(IWF/OeAW)
June 2008
ILWS Activities AUSTRIA
Rumi Nakamura and Helmut O. Rucker
Space Research InstituteAustrian Academy of Sciences
(IWF/OeAW)
June 2008
ILWS relevant Austrian institutions
IWF/OEAW
Space Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Space mission, theory-modeling, ground-based observation
IGAM/KFU
Institute for Geophysics, Astrophysics and Meteorology, Institute of Physics, Karl Franzens University Graz
Ground-based observation, theory, observational diagnostics
TUG
Graz University of Technology
Rocket experiment, modeling
ILWS Mission Participation (IWF)
In orbit:
Cluster: ASPOC/FGM/EDI, Data Center, Data Analysis
Double Star: ASPOC/FGM, Data Center, Data Analysis
THEMIS: FGM, Data Analysis
Venus Express: VEXMAG/ASPERA, Data Analysis
Stereo: WAVES
Under Development:
Bepi Colombo: MGF on MMO, PICAM/MERMAG on MPO
MMS: EDI/ASPOC/FGM
Solar Orbiter: IWF (Magnetometer, Radio and Plasma Waves) IGAM/KFU (STIX)
Resonance: High Frequency Electric Field experiment
Planning:
Cross Scale: Assessment study (Instrument and Mission)
ILWS relevant ground-based obs.
Kanzelhöhe Observatory IGAM/KFU
Solar observations
Central European Solar ARchives (CESAR)
Ground-based magnetometer IWF
Study of field line resonances / Space Weather
together with Italy, Hungary, and Greece
Science in the context of IHYsee (http://ihy-austria.oeaw.ac.at)
International Heliophysical Year 2007
IWF/ OeAW
Inst. of Physics, Univ. Graz
Inst. for Astronomy, Univ. Vienna
Inst. for Astro-and Particle Physics, Univ. Innsbruck
EU FP6 Project
Science festivals and space weather exhibition
ARC (Austrian Research Centers GmbH)
IWF/OeAW
Space Weather and Europe -
an Educational Tool with the Sun
Space Weather
Participation in COST 724 action (EU) “Developing the Scientific Basis for Monitoring, Modelling and Predicting Space Weather”
Participation in the ESA-Space Situational Awareness Inititative (ESA/SSA) including the issue Space Weather
Space Weather relevant research projects IWF, IGAM/KFUon magnetic clouds, CME, and solar corona supported by Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and Austrian Academic Exchange Service (ÖAD)
SOlar-TERrestrial Investigations and Archives IGAM/KFU
EU-FP7 project
Status summary
Continue participation in ILWS relevant mission and ground-based observation activities.
Exhibition on IHY is planned for 2009 in Graz and at 2 other sites.
Enhanced interest in Space Weather relevant activity