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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.

Publications

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Oates S (2007) The two-component afterglow of Swift GRB 050802 GRB 050802 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Lane K (2007) The colour selection of distant galaxies in the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey Early Data Release in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters

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Wei X (2007) Cluster observations of waves in the whistler frequency range associated with magnetic reconnection in the Earth's magnetotail in Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

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Soobiah Y (2007) Erratum to "Observations of magnetic anomaly signatures in Mars Express ASPERA-3 ELS data" [Icarus 182 (2006) 396-405] in Icarus

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Fear R (2007) Motion of flux transfer events: a test of the Cooling model in Annales Geophysicae

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Bogdanova Y (2007) Cluster Observations of the Magnetospheric Low-Latitude Boundary Layer and Cusp during Extreme Solar Wind and Interplanetary Magnetic Field Conditions: II. 7 November 2004 ICME and Statistical Survey in Solar Physics

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Kerber F (2007) Galactic planetary nebulae and their central stars II. Proper motions in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Delannée C (2007) A New Model for Propagating Parts of EIT Waves: A Current Shell in a CME in Solar Physics

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Harra L (2007) Coronal Dimming Observed with Hinode: Outflows Related to a Coronal Mass Ejection in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan

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Barcons X (2007) The XMM-Newton serendipitous survey IV. Optical identification of the XMM-Newton medium sensitivity survey (XMS) in Astronomy & Astrophysics