Analysis of X-Ray and Related Data from the South Pole Balloon Campaign

这笔赠款将支持继续分析数据 从一系列的极光x射线探测器上获得， of balloons气球that were flown飞from the South南Pole极点Station站， 1985年至1986年夏天的南极洲。 实验 是与休斯顿大学合作完成的。 探测到的x射线是由高能电子产生的 从大气层的上层 磁层 数据将结合以下内容进行分析： 在相同的气球上测量的电场数据 休斯顿大学的研究小组以及一些 地面仪器，如马里兰州大学 贝尔实验室和新罕布什尔州大学 位于拉布拉多鹅湾的磁力计和共轭雷达， 格陵兰岛的松德斯特伦 此外，还将对数据进行比较 利用现有的航天器数据来确定 在此条件下，会发生高能极光电子沉淀。 马里兰州大学和提议者都有充分的准备， 开展这项研究。

This grant will support the continuation of the analysis of data obtained from auroral x-ray detectors that were flown on a series of balloons that were flown from the South Pole Station, Antarctica during the austral summer of 1985-86. The experiment was done in conjunction with the University of Houston. The x-rays that were detected were produced by energetic electrons that were precipitated into the upper atmosphere from the magnetosphere. The data will be analyzed in conjunction with electric field data measured on the same balloons by the University of Houston group as well as with data from a number of ground based instruments such as the University of Maryland riometers, the Bell Labs and University of New Hampshire magnetometers and the conjugate radars at Goose Bay, Labrador and Sondrestrom, Greenland. In addition the data will be compared with the available spacecraft data to determine the conditions under which energetic auroral electron precipitation occurs. The University of Maryland and the proposers are well equipped to carry out this research.