MSSL PPARC Rolling Grant Proposal
Lead Research Organisation:
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
Department Name: Mullard Space Science Laboratory
Abstract
MSSL's PPARC rolling grant supports world-class research in astrophysics and solar system science. Investigators at MSSL are leading programmes to investigate the Earth's magnetosphere, explore the planets, understand the Sun and probe the furthest reaches of the universe. Our academic staffs are involved with the development, design, build, operations and data analysis aspects of space missions. We have hands-on involvement during the lifetime of missions that spans conception to operations. These include an impressive array of missions that are currently operational: Cassini, Cluster, Double Star, Mars Express, Coronas-F, SOHO, Swift, Venus Express and XMM-Newton. In the next grant period Solar-B and Herschel will be launched. We have had hardware involvement in all these missions, and are PI on 5. The drive for this involvement is the cutting edge science that can be achieved from these missions. We are also immersed in the development of future missions including ExoMars, Gaia, KuaFu, Xeus, LISA, and Solar Orbiter. New technologies such as cryogenic coolers for future X-ray missions, instrument miniaturisation for solar system exploration and micropenetrators to explore planets such as Mars and Venus are being developed.
Organisations
Publications
Parks GK
(2007)
Solitary electromagnetic pulses detected with super-Alfvénic flows in Earth's geomagnetic tail.
in Physical review letters
Copperwheat C
(2007)
Irradiation models for ULXs and fits to optical data
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Cropper M
(2007)
XMM-Newton observations of the isolated neutron star 1RXS J214303.7+065419/RBS1774
in Astrophysics and Space Science
Rea N
(2007)
Our distorted view of magnetars: application of the resonant cyclotron scattering model
in Astrophysics and Space Science
Blustin A
(2007)
The mass-energy budget of the ionised outflow in NGC 7469
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Mignani R
(2007)
VLT observations of the central compact object in the Vela Jr. supernova remnant
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Lui A
(2007)
Breakdown of the frozen-in condition in the Earth's magnetotail
in Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
Tiengo A
(2007)
Long term spectral variability in the soft gamma-ray repeater SGR 1900+14
in Astrophysics and Space Science
Moss D
(2007)
A deep Giant Metre-wave Radio Telescope 610-MHz survey of the 1HXMM-Newton/Chandra survey field
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society