South Pole X-ray Characteristics

南极X射线特征

• 批准号: 8718586
• 负责人: George Parks
• 金额: $ 11.69万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1988
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1988-05-01 至 1991-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8718586&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: South; Pole; ray; Characteristics

This project will fly auroral x-ray imagers on the same balloons as the University of California astrophysical x-ray and gamma ray spectrometers. The purpose is to make qualitative measurements of the flux of energetic electrons that cause the aurora, and to correlate these measurements with other geophysical measurements, such as magnetic pulsations and the behavior of the solar wind. The auroral measurements will also take advantage of the UCB spectrometers, since those will provide high resolution measurements in a very small, but known, portion of the imagers' field of view. The resulting images will also complement the images made by the new imaging riometer (IRIS) at South Pole. The investigators, and the University of Washington, are leaders in magnetospheric physics.

该项目将在同一个气球上飞行极光x射线成像仪 作为加州大学天体物理学的x射线和伽马射线 光谱仪 其目的是对以下内容进行定性测量： 产生极光的高能电子流， 将这些测量与其他地球物理测量相关联， 例如磁脉动和太阳风的行为。 极光测量也将利用UCB 光谱仪，因为这些将提供高分辨率 在成像器的一个非常小的，但已知的部分测量， 视野. 由此产生的图像也将补充 这是由南极新的成像riometer（IRIS）拍摄的图像。 调查人员和华盛顿大学是领导者 磁层物理学的最新进展