Participation in the SWAVES/STEREO project

参与SWAVES/STEREO项目

• 批准号: 21909579
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Gottfried Mann
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2005-12-31 至 2010-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/21909579?language=en
• 关键词: Participation; SWAVES; STEREO; project

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) represent the most energetic kind of solar activity. They can influence our Earth s environment in different ways. On the one hand, they are able to drive a shock wave ahead of themselves. This shock wave is capable of accelerating particles to high energies. These particles can penetrate into our Earth s atmosphere leading to well-known auroral lights and disturbances of electronic equipment. On the other hand, CMEs are accompanied by a frozenin magnetic field. If a CME impinges the Earth s magnetosphere, it can cause magnetic storms perturbating e.g. the navigation of ships and aircrafts as well as wireless communications. These examples impressively demonstrate the importance of understanding CMEs and related phenomena.The basic aim of NASA s STEREO mission is to study the initiation of CMEs in the corona and their propagation through interplanetary space as well as their ability to accelerate particles. SWAVES is a package of basically two instruments, which allows to measure remotely the radio radiation between 16 MHz and 40 kHz and to detect in-situ plasma waves in the frequency range 10-40 kHz. Since the radio waves are regarded as being emitted near the local plasma frequency, remote radio observations allow for tracking the CME-driven shock from the Sun to 1 AU.The aim of this research project is to develop a software tool allowing a combined analysis of SWAVES data and data provided by other instruments onboard STEREO, as well as ground-based observations from the AIP s Observatory for Solar Radioastronomy at Tremsdorf, and data from other radio and optical observatories.The combined data analysis will provide a better understanding of the initiation and propagation of CMEs and related phenomena, like the production of solar energetic particles and the details of their acceleration mechanism.

日冕物质抛射（CME）是太阳活动中能量最大的一种。它们可以以不同的方式影响我们的地球环境。一方面，他们能够在自己前面推动冲击波。这种冲击波能够将粒子加速到高能量。这些粒子可以渗透到我们的地球大气层，导致众所周知的极光和电子设备的干扰。另一方面，日冕物质抛射伴随着冻结的磁场。如果CME撞击地球的磁层，它可能会导致磁暴，例如船舶和飞机的导航以及无线通信。这些例子令人印象深刻地证明了理解日冕物质抛射及其相关现象的重要性。美国宇航局的立体声使命的基本目标是研究日冕物质抛射在日冕中的起始和它们在行星际空间中的传播以及它们加速粒子的能力。SWAVES是一个基本上由两个仪器组成的套件，可以远程测量16 MHz至40 kHz之间的无线电辐射，并探测10-40 kHz频率范围内的现场等离子体波。由于无线电波被认为是在本地等离子体频率附近发射的，远程无线电观测允许跟踪从太阳到1 Au的日冕物质抛射驱动的冲击。本研究项目的目的是开发一个软件工具，允许综合分析SWAVES数据和STEREO上其他仪器提供的数据，以及来自Tremsdorf的AIP太阳射电天文学观测台的地面观测，综合数据分析将有助于更好地了解日冕物质抛射的发生和传播以及相关现象，如太阳高能粒子的产生及其加速机制的细节。