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
Attrill G
(2007)
Coronal "wave": A signature of the mechanism making CMEs largescale in the low corona?
in Astronomische Nachrichten
Harra L
(2007)
Coronal Dimming Observed with Hinode: Outflows Related to a Coronal Mass Ejection
in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
Zhang Y
(2007)
Coronal Magnetic Connectivity and EUV Dimmings
in Solar Physics
Harra L
(2009)
CORONAL NONTHERMAL VELOCITY FOLLOWING HELICITY INJECTION BEFORE AN X-CLASS FLARE
in The Astrophysical Journal
Hara Hirohisa
(2008)
Coronal plasma motions near footpoints of active region loops revealed from spectroscopic observations with
Hinode EIS
in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
Hara H
(2008)
Coronal Plasma Motions near Footpoints of Active Region Loops Revealed from Spectroscopic Observations with Hinode EIS
in The Astrophysical Journal
Pedersen A
(2008)
Correction to "Electron density estimations derived from spacecraft potential measurements on Cluster in tenuous plasma regions"
in Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
Vande Putte D
(2009)
Could the Galactic disc heating be due to globular cluster impacts?
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Schwartz S
(2008)
Cross-scale: multi-scale coupling in space plasmas
in Experimental Astronomy
Cai H. T.
(2009)
Cusp observations during a sequence of fast IMF
BZ reversals
in ANNALES GEOPHYSICAE