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
Watanabe T
(2010)
PRODUCTION OF HIGH-TEMPERATURE PLASMAS DURING THE EARLY PHASES OF A C9.7 FLARE
in The Astrophysical Journal
Schady P
(2010)
Dust and metal column densities in gamma-ray burst host galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Kondratiev V
(2010)
ERRATUM: "NEW LIMITS ON RADIO EMISSION FROM X-RAY DIM ISOLATED NEUTRON STARS" (2009, ApJ, 702, 692)
in The Astrophysical Journal
Hohle M
(2010)
Updated phase coherent timing solution of the isolated neutron star RX J0720.4-3125 using recent XMM-Newton and Chandra observations
in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Achilleos N
(2010)
Influence of hot plasma pressure on the global structure of Saturn's magnetodisk
in Geophysical Research Letters
Sylwester J
(2010)
A SOLAR SPECTROSCOPIC ABSOLUTE ABUNDANCE OF ARGON FROM RESIK
in The Astrophysical Journal
Enoto T
(2010)
WIDE-BAND SUZAKU ANALYSIS OF THE PERSISTENT EMISSION FROM SGR 0501+4516 DURING THE 2008 OUTBURST
in The Astrophysical Journal
Cooray A
(2010)
HerMES: Halo occupation number and bias properties of dusty galaxies from angular clustering measurements
in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Masters A
(2010)
Cassini observations of a Kelvin-Helmholtz vortex in Saturn's outer magnetosphere
in Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
Sylwester J
(2010)
HIGHLY IONIZED POTASSIUM LINES IN SOLAR X-RAY SPECTRA AND THE ABUNDANCE OF POTASSIUM
in The Astrophysical Journal