Alfvén : Magnetosphere -Ionosphere Connection Explorers

Alfvén: magnetosphere--ionosphere connection explorers

Matthieu Berthomier (1) , A. Fazakerlay, N. (2) , C. Forsyth (2) , Raymond Pottelette (1) , Olga Alexandrova (3) , A. Anastasiadis , A. Aruliah (4) , Pierre-Louis Blelly (5) , Carine Briand (3) , R. Bruno , Patrick Canu (1) , Baptiste Cecconi (3) , Thomas Chust (1) , I. Daglis , J. Davie , M. Dunlop , Dominique Fontaine (1) , Vincent Génot (5) , B. Gustavsson , G. Haerendel , M. Hamrin , M. Hapgood , S. Hess (3) , D. Kataria , K. Kauristie (6) , S. Kemble , Y. Khotyaintsev (7) , H. Koskinen , Laurent Lamy (3) , B. Lanchester , P. Louarn (5) , E. Lucek , R. Lundin , M. Maksimovic (3) , J. Manninen , Aurélie Marchaudon (5) , O. Marghitu (8) , G. Marklund , S. Milan (9) , J. Moen , Fabrice Mottez (10) , Hans Nilsson , Michel Parrot (11) , N. Ostgaard , C. J. Owen (2) , A. Pedersen , C. Perry (12) , Jean-Louis Pinçon (11) , Frederic Pitout (5) , T. Pulkkinen , I. J. Rae , Laurence Rezeau (1) , A. Roux (13) , I. Sandahl , I. Sandberg , E. Turunen , J. Vogt , A. Walsh , C. E. J. Watt , J. A. Wild , M. Yamauchi , Philippe Zarka (3) , I. Zouganelis (1)

1 LPP - Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas
2 MSSL - Mullard Space Science Laboratory
3 LESIA - Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique
4 Atmospheric Physics Laboratory [UCL London]
5 IRAP - Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie
6 FMI - Finnish Meteorological Institute
7 IRF - Swedish Institute of Space Physics [Kiruna]
8 MPE - Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik
9 Department of Physics and Astronomy [Leicester]
10 LUTH (UMR_8102) - Laboratoire Univers et Théories
11 LPCE - Laboratoire de physique et chimie de l'environnement
12 RAL - STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
13 LPP - Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas

The Alfvén concept is designed specifically to take the next step in studying the aurora, by making the crucial high-time resolution, multi-scale measurements in the AAR, needed to address the key science questions of auroral plasma physics. The new knowledge that the mission will produce will find application in studies of the Sun, the processes that accelerate the solar wind and that produce aurora on other planets.

Domaines: Physique des plasmas [physics.plasm-ph]; Physique [physics]; Astrophysique [astro-ph]

Matthieu Berthomier, A. Fazakerlay, N., C. Forsyth, Raymond Pottelette, Olga Alexandrova, et al.. Alfvén : Magnetosphere -Ionosphere Connection Explorers. Experimental Astronomy, 2011, pp.1. ⟨10.1007/s10686-011-9273-y⟩. ⟨hal-00656218⟩