Volker Bothmer University of Göttingen Institute for Astrophysics Germany 24 th October 2011 IV EU-Russian Open Days Russian Institute for Science and Culture, Vienna, Brahmsplatz 8 Topic: Solar-Terrestrial Research and Research Infrastructures FROM RESEARCH TO OPERATIONS EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL SPACE WEATHER PROJECTS
The Sun 360 Space Observations of the Sun-Earth System have developed into a mature state
Multi-point Space Observations Solar EM Radiation, Solar Wind and Coronal Mass Ejections, Energetic Particles SDO, Proba2 SDO, Proba2
Solar Activity on August 01, 2010 SDO
SDO/AIA Observations
STEREO/SECCHI Observations
STEREO/SECCHI Observations
Tracking the CME Towards Earth SECCHI Movie ACE
The Sun on your cell phone STEREO, SDO
The Sun on your cell phone in real-time iphone/ipad Apps: The 3D Sun; The Sun Viewer; ACE-Daten
Space Weather Journals and Books
The Importance of Space Weather Space missions have led to fundamentally new understandings of physical processes in the Sun-Earth system and Heliosphere (e.g., solar EUV/coronal imaging, tracking of solar storms in space, solar wind impact on planets) Modern societies infrastructures are vulnerable to space weather effects (e.g., telecommunication/navigation systems, power grids) Strengthens interdisciplenary science and addresses fundamental physics questions (e.g., solar and magnetospheric physics heliopsheric physics, origin of solar wind and CMEs, knowledge on technology impacts of debris, and energetic charged particles, research on atmospheric processes and climate) Need for Future Space Exploration (robotic and human)
Why going from Research to Operations (R2O)? Multi-point space missions and complementary ground-based networks (solar optical and radio telescopes) are providing the relevant measurements needed to quantify space weather processes (e.g., solar corona, solar wind and CME modelling, atmospheric impact of specific solar EUV spectral lines) Supports and focusses on-going research (e.g., determining solar conditions leading to extreme space weather events in measurable physics units, such as CME speeds, photospheric B-flux, etc.) Help mitigating space weather effects on societal infrastructures Helps facilitating reliable mission operations and safe robotic and human space exploration
Importance of Space Weather for the FP8 programme Hearing December 2010 Will support on-going and planned activities of Europe s space research community in general (exploitation of data from ESA, NASA, national missions, etc.) Will help facilitate space weather baseline research needed to set path for establishing operational space weather forecast systems for dedicated purposes (communication system, solar system exploration missions) Will enable development of space weather products out of dedicated research results (e.g., cell phone forecasts, real-time solar monitoring) Will complement EU/ESA Space Situational Awareness Programme
Space Situational Awareness (SSA) ESA/EU Programm (now to 2018/20) SSA-Components: - Observation and Tracking of Objects - Earth Observations - Space Weather Ongoing ESA SWE Studies as PP
ESA SN-II Project: Implentation Design Study of Space Weather Instruments (2010 2011) 278 SSA SWE CRD (Customer Requirement Specifications) Service Products Analysed 8 Top Level SWE Instrument Groups Identified 25 SWE Instrument Types Identified and Parametrised
ESA SSA Operational System Layout
Sample EU FP7 Project AFFECTS Advanced Forecast For Ensuring Communications Through Space
AFFECTS Project Goals State of the art analysis and modeling of the Sun-Earth chain of effects on the Earth's ionosphere and their subsequent impacts on communication systems Quantitative and timely (advanced) forecast Provision of Europe s first advanced early warning and space weather forecast system Timeline: 1 st March 2011 until 28 th February 2014
AFFECTS Beneficiary List and Collaborators Beneficiaries Organisation name Country 1 (Lead) University of Göttingen (UGOE) Germany 2 Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB) Belgium 3 4 5 Space Research Institute of National Academy of Sciences Ukraine and National Space Agency of Ukraine (SRI NASU-NSAU) Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques IPM (FHG) Tromsø Geophysical Observatory, University of Tromsø (UoT) Ukraine Germany Norway 6 German Aerospace Center, Neustrelitz (DLR) Germany 7 Astrium Satellites GmbH Friedrichshafen (Astrium ST) Germany External Collaborator NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (NOAA-SWPC) USA Space Weather Education and Public Putreach Center Planetarium Hamburg (PH) Germany
EU FP7 Space Weather Projects, UN ISWI AFFECTS ATMOP COMESEP PLASMON SIDER SPACECAST SWIFF - Space Data Exploitation (ECLAT, HESPE, POPDAT, SEPServer, SOTERI - Projects under negotiation: e.g., eheroes
EU Cell Phone Application Let s Embrace Space
Conclusion and Perspective The field of Space Weather Research and Applications provides unique opportunities for European and International Collaborations Involvement of EU-Russian collaborations is highly important