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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Sylwester B (2008) X-ray studies of flaring plasma in Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy

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Sylwester B (2010) Soft X-ray coronal spectra at low activity levels observed by RESIK in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Sylwester B (2008) He-like Ar xvii triplet observed by RESIK in Advances in Space Research

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Sylwester B. (2008) X-ray studies of flaring plasma in JOURNAL OF ASTROPHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY

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Sylwester J (2010) A SOLAR SPECTROSCOPIC ABSOLUTE ABUNDANCE OF ARGON FROM RESIK in The Astrophysical Journal

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Sylwester J (2011) The Sun's X-ray Emission During the Recent Solar Minimum in Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union

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Sylwester J (2008) RESIK Observations of Helium-like Argon X-Ray Line Emission in Solar Flares in The Astrophysical Journal

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Sylwester J. (2008) Resik observations of helium-like argon X-ray line emission in solar flares in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS

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Symeonidis M (2010) The central energy source of 70 µm-selected galaxies: starburst or AGN? in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Symeonidis M (2008) The properties of 70 µm-selected high-redshift galaxies in the Extended Groth Strip in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Symeonidis M (2009) The link between SCUBA and Spitzer : cold galaxies at z ? 1 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Symeonidis, M. And Rosario, D. And Georgakakis, A. And Harker, J. And Laird, E. S. And Page, M. J. (2009) The central energy source of 70micron-selected galaxies: Starburst or AGN?

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Szego K (2009) O + ion flow below the magnetic barrier at Venus post terminator in Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

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Talboys D (2009) Signatures of field-aligned currents in Saturn's nightside magnetosphere in Geophysical Research Letters

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Testa V (2008) Adaptive optics, near-infrared observations of magnetars in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Tiengo A (2007) Long term spectral variability in the soft gamma-ray repeater SGR 1900+14 in Astrophysics and Space Science

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Tiengo A (2009) Quiet but still bright: XMM-Newton observations of the soft gamma-ray repeater SGR 0526-66 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters

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Toeroek T. (2007) Numerical simulations of fast and slow coronal mass ejections in ASTRONOMISCHE NACHRICHTEN

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Tokar R (2009) Cassini detection of Enceladus' cold water-group plume ionosphere in Geophysical Research Letters

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Török T (2010) The writhe of helical structures in the solar corona in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Vaccari M (2010) The HerMES SPIRE submillimeter local luminosity function in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Vaivads A (2007) Source of whistler emissions at the dayside magnetopause in Geophysical Research Letters

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Van Driel-Gesztelyi L (2008) Multi-scale reconnections in a complex CME in Advances in Space Research

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Van Driel-Gesztelyi L (2008) Why are CMEs large-scale coronal events: nature or nurture? in Annales Geophysicae

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Van Driel-Gesztelyi L. (2008) Why are CMEs large-scale coronal events: nature or nurture? in ANNALES GEOPHYSICAE

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Vande Putte D (2009) Detecting the effect of globular cluster impacts on the disc of the Milky Way in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Vande Putte D (2009) Could the Galactic disc heating be due to globular cluster impacts? in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Volwerk M (2008) Magnetotail dipolarization and associated current systems observed by Cluster and Double Star in Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

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Vuitton V (2009) Negative ion chemistry in Titan's upper atmosphere in Planetary and Space Science

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Wahlund J (2009) On the amount of heavy molecular ions in Titan's ionosphere in Planetary and Space Science