SMILE: a joint ESA/CAS mission to investigate the interaction between the solar wind and Earth's magnetosphere
SMILE: a joint ESA/CAS mission to investigate the interaction between the solar wind and Earth's magnetosphere
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SMILE：欧空局/中科院联合任务，研究太阳风与地球磁层之间的相互作用
DOI：
10.1117/12.2231984
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Jianhua Zheng
中科院分区：
文献类型：
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作者：
W. Raab;G. Branduardi‐Raymont;Chi Wang;L. Dai;E. Donovan;G. Enno;P. Escoubet;A. Holland;Li Jing;D. Kataria;Lei Li;A. Read;D. Rebuffat;J. Romstedt;C. Runciman;S. Sembay;E. Spanswick;J. Sykes;J. Thornhill;A. Wielders;A. Zhang;Jianhua Zheng
太阳风磁层电离层链路探测器（SMILE）是欧洲空间局和中国科学院的一项合作科学任务。SMILE是一项新的独立任务，通过太阳风-磁层相互作用带的x射线成像，全球极光分布的紫外成像以及同步的原位太阳风，磁鞘等离子体和磁场测量来观察太阳风和地球磁层的耦合。SMILE任务提案是由欧洲、中国和加拿大科学家组成的一个财团在欧洲航天局和中国科学院的联合呼吁下提交的。2015年11月，它被欧空局科学计划委员会（SPC）正式选定为欧空局科学计划的一个组成部分，目标是在2021年底发射。为了实现其科学目标，SMILE有效载荷将包括四种仪器：软x射线成像仪（SXI），它将对地球的磁层顶、磁鞘和磁层尖端进行光谱测绘；紫外成像仪（UVI），用于对极光区域进行成像；光离子分析仪（LIA）和磁力计（MAG），它们将与成像仪器同时确定太阳风的特性。我们报告了任务和有效载荷发展的现状，以及2015年10月/ 11月在欧空局和中科院并行设计设施（CDF）并行进行的设计研究的结果。
The Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) is a collaborative science mission between ESA and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). SMILE is a novel self-standing mission to observe the coupling of the solar wind and Earth's magnetosphere via X-Ray imaging of the solar wind -- magnetosphere interaction zones, UV imaging of global auroral distributions and simultaneous in-situ solar wind, magnetosheath plasma and magnetic field measurements. The SMILE mission proposal was submitted by a consortium of European, Chinese and Canadian scientists following a joint call for mission by ESA and CAS. It was formally selected by ESA's Science Programme Committee (SPC) as an element of the ESA Science Program in November 2015, with the goal of a launch at the end of 2021. In order to achieve its scientific objectives, the SMILE payload will comprise four instruments: the Soft X-ray Imager (SXI), which will spectrally map the Earth's magnetopause, magnetosheath and magnetospheric cusps; the UltraViolet Imager (UVI), dedicated to imaging the auroral regions; the Light Ion Analyser (LIA) and the MAGnetometer (MAG), which will establish the solar wind properties simultaneously with the imaging instruments. We report on the status of the mission and payload developments and the findings of a design study carried out in parallel at the concurrent design facilities (CDF) of ESA and CAS in October/November 2015.