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
Caccianiga A
(2007)
The XMM-Newton bright serendipitous survey Identification and optical spectral properties
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Menezes D
(2007)
The QCD phase diagram and the gamma-ray bursts
in Nuclear Physics A
Len C
(2007)
Hinode EUV Study of Jets in the Sun's South Polar Corona
in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
Rea N
(2007)
Spectral Modeling of the High-Energy Emission of the Magnetar 4U 0142+614
in The Astrophysical Journal
Green L
(2007)
Transient Coronal Sigmoids and Rotating Erupting Flux Ropes
in Solar Physics
Pellegrini S
(2007)
A Deep Chandra Look at the Low- L B Elliptical NGC 821: X-Ray Binaries, a Galactic Wind, and Emission at the Nucleus
in The Astrophysical Journal
De Luca A
(2007)
Hubble Space Telescope Multiepoch Imaging of the PSR B0540-69 System Unveils a Highly Dynamic Synchrotron Nebula
in The Astrophysical Journal
Troja E
(2007)
Swift Observations of GRB 070110: An Extraordinary X-Ray Afterglow Powered by the Central Engine
in The Astrophysical Journal
Toeroek T.
(2007)
Numerical simulations of fast and slow coronal mass ejections
in ASTRONOMISCHE NACHRICHTEN
Vaivads A
(2007)
Source of whistler emissions at the dayside magnetopause
in Geophysical Research Letters