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
Grocott A
(2007)
Multi-scale observations of magnetotail flux transport during IMF-northward non-substorm intervals
in Annales Geophysicae
Culhane J
(2007)
The EUV Imaging Spectrometer for Hinode
in Solar Physics
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
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
RetinĂ² A
(2007)
In situ evidence of magnetic reconnection in turbulent plasma
in Nature Physics
Balan N
(2007)
Response of the magnetosheath-cusp region to a coronal mass ejection
in Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
Len C
(2007)
Hinode EUV Study of Jets in the Sun's South Polar Corona
in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
Ramsay G
(2007)
A search for electron cyclotron maser emission from compact binaries
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Lefebvre B
(2007)
Electron dynamics and cross-shock potential at the quasi-perpendicular Earth's bow shock
in Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
Teste A
(2007)
CLUSTER observations of electron outflowing beams carrying downward currents above the polar cap by northward IMF
in Annales Geophysicae