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