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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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Bunce E (2007) Cassini observations of the variation of Saturn's ring current parameters with system size in Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

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Zhang Y (2007) The magnetic structure of an earthward-moving flux rope observed by Cluster in the near-tail in Annales Geophysicae

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Sakao T (2007) Continuous Plasma Outflows from the Edge of a Solar Active Region as a Possible Source of Solar Wind in Science

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Imada S (2007) Discovery of a Temperature-Dependent Upflow in the Plage Region during a Gradual Phase of the X-Class Flare in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan

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Barcons, X. And Carrera, F. J. And Ceballos, M. T. And Page, M. J. And Bussons-Gordo, J. And Corral, A. And Ebrero, J. And Mateos, S. And Tedds, J. A. And Watson, M. G. And Baskill, D. And Birkinshaw, M. And Boller, T. And Borisov, N. And Bremer, M. And Bromage, G. E. And Brunner, H. And Caccianiga, A. And Crawford, C. S. And Cropper, M. S. And Della Ceca, R. And Derry, P. And Fabian, A. C. And Guillout, P. And Hashimoto, Y. And Hasinger, G. And Hassall, B. J. M. And Lamer, G. And Loaring, N. S (2007) XMM-Newton serendipitous survey. IV (Barcons+, 2007) in VizieR Online Data Catalog

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Carrera F (2007) The XMM-Newton serendipitous survey III. The AXIS X-ray source counts and angular clustering in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Mignani R (2007) The optical polarisation of the Vela pulsar revisited in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Esposito P (2007) SGR 1806-20 about two years after the giant flare: Suzaku , XMM-Newton and INTEGRAL observations in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Matsuzaki K (2007) Data Archive of the Hinode Mission in Solar Physics

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Apatenkov S (2008) Conjugate observation of sharp dynamical boundary in the inner magnetosphere by Cluster and DMSP spacecraft and ground network in Annales Geophysicae