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
Caccianiga A
(2007)
Elusive AGN in the XMM-Newton bright serendipitous survey
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Caccianiga A
(2007)
The XMM-Newton bright serendipitous survey Identification and optical spectral properties
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Cai H
(2010)
Cluster observations of high-altitude cusp during multiple fast-turning IMF
in Chinese Science Bulletin
Cai H. T.
(2009)
Cusp observations during a sequence of fast IMF
BZ reversals
in ANNALES GEOPHYSICAE
Cao X
(2008)
Multispacecraft and ground-based observations of substorm timing and activations: Two case studies
in Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
Carrera F
(2007)
The XMM-Newton serendipitous survey III. The AXIS X-ray source counts and angular clustering
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Cattaneo M. B. Bavassano
(2010)
Global reconnection topology as inferred from plasma observations inside Kelvin-Helmholtz vortices
in ANNALES GEOPHYSICAE
Chaston CC
(2007)
Mode conversion and anomalous transport in Kelvin-Helmholtz vortices and kinetic Alfvén waves at the Earth's magnetopause.
in Physical review letters
Chen L
(2007)
Observation of energetic electrons within magnetic islands
in Nature Physics
Chen L
(2008)
Evidence of an extended electron current sheet and its neighboring magnetic island during magnetotail reconnection
in Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics