October 25-26, 2006: Launching of STEREO mission |
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October 25-26, 2006: Launching of STEREO mission
The STEREO project relies on the international collaboration between several laboratories (including the LESIA, from Paris Observatory). Its principal objective is to carry out observations and stereoscopic measurements of the Sun and its coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and its energetic particles as soon as they leave the sun. For that the two probes embark each one the same unit of different and complementary instruments.
To follow the launch, consult http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov
The LESIA participates to this project in two experiments:
- Experiment STEREO/WAVES: the scientific responsibility for this experiment is ensured by LESIA (PI: Jean-Louis Bougeret) as well as the manufacture of the whole of the radio operator receivers which will track the CMEs and the solar energetic particles, starting from the Sun and in interplanetary space, thanks to the radio emissions produced by these disturbances.
- The experiment SECCHI provides, through various instruments, the imagery of the corona and of the interplanetary medium. The LESIA (Monique Pick Co-I on SECCHI) will provide the Web page (radio monitoring on space and ground) which presents the daily images and radio spectrograms (collaboration with the Universities of Athens and Ioannina) http://secchirh.obspm.fr
Contact
Jean-Louis Bougeret (Observatoire de Paris, LESIA, et CNRS)
Monique Pick (Observatoire de Paris, LESIA, et CNRS)