UCL – DEPARTMENT OF SPACE AND CLIMATE PHYSICS
MULLARD SPACE SCIENCE LABORATORY
The Newsletter - Volume 9, Issue 3
19 April 2012
Covers events between 1 September 2011 and 29 February 2012
Contents
General .................................................................................................................................................. - 1 New Staff Members .............................................................................................................................. - 2 Prizes and Awards ............................................................................................................................... - 2 Appointments ....................................................................................................................................... - 2 Visitors .................................................................................................................................................. - 2 Teaching................................................................................................................................................ - 2 Grants and Contracts .......................................................................................................................... - 2 Proposals .............................................................................................................................................. - 2 Mission Status and Developments ..................................................................................................... - 2 Publications – Refereed ...................................................................................................................... - 4 Publications - Non-refereed ................................................................................................................ - 7 PhDs Awarded ...................................................................................................................................... - 7 Outreach................................................................................................................................................ - 9 Other News Items/Activities .............................................................................................................. - 10 Press Releases ................................................................................................................................... - 10 Media Broadcasts and Features ....................................................................................................... - 10 Next Issue ........................................................................................................................................... - 11 -
General
On 6 December, MSSL opened its first office
outside the UK at UCL's campus in Victoria
Square, Adelaide, Australia. MSSL's Director,
Professor Alan Smith was there to take part in the
opening and also to be present at UCL's first
degree ceremony abroad. The MSSL presence will
augment the existing UCL School of Energy and
Resources (who's students graduated) and the
UCL International Energy Policy Institute. MSSL in
Australia will focus on both providing engineering
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management training and education and also work
with Australian industry and academia in the
development of technology for both space and
terrestrial applications.
Appointments
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Andrew Coates has been appointed to the
STFC Astronomy Grants Panel.
Professor Smith said, “the development of space
technology requires many skills in science,
engineering and management. We plan to make
our expertise in these areas available to Australian
academic and industry sectors through education,
training and collaborative R&D programmes. I see
many interesting possibilities for MSSL in Australia
and have been encouraged by the level of interest
from researchers who are willing to collaborate.
There have also been positive discussions with a
variety of levels of government on the prospects for
extensions into a range of sectors."
Visitors
Jared Leisner from the University of Iowa visited
the Planetary Science group from 26-30 Sept.
Teaching
We have 21 students enrolled in our Master of
Science Programme in Space Science and
Engineering for the session 2011-12; they visited
MSSL on 11 November, together with a few
Physics and Astronomy undergraduates.
Grants and Contracts
This new venture represents the culmination of two
of Professor Smith’s earlier trips to Adelaide over
the last year and several visits to MSSL by
Australian researchers and group leaders. The
University (Provost and MAPS faculty) are funding
the first two years of activity. Professor Smith
attended the UCL Australia board (along with
Michael Worton and various denizens of industry)
and was very well received.
Cassini operations grant awarded (A. Coates PI,
UKSA/ESA).
Chris Arridge was awarded an RAS Undergraduate
bursary for Oxford University student, Tim Culwick,
to work on the measurement of Martian water
vapour using ExoMars/PanCam.
Proposals
New Staff Members
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Dave vande Putte (Research Associate) with
Mark Cropper (1 Oct);
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David Long (Research Associate) with Sarah
Matthews (1 Nov);
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Julia Gaudeli returned from Australia to join
Steve Baker’s group (13 Feb).
The MSSL SWA and EUI proposals for the build
phase (2012-17) were delivered to the UKSA (7
Nov.). Chris Brockley-Blatt, Andrew Fazakerley
and Barry Hancock presented the SWA case and
answered questions from the assessment panel at
a meeting of UKSA and the panel (21/22 Nov).
The review went well and we are currently awaiting
confirmation of the level of funding to be awarded.
Prizes and Awards
SAND (Space Applications of Nanotube Devices) –
EU FP7, Nov 2011.
Andrew Fazakerley has been awarded this year's
Royal Astronomical Society Chapman Medal,
which is awarded for investigations of outstanding
merit in solar-terrestrial physics. Andrew’s award
was in recognition of his work as the Principal
Investigator of the PEACE instruments on the
Cluster and Double Star missions.
PoleCATS, an MSSL/UKSEDS proposal for
a miniaturised electron spectrometer instrument
using a CCD detector, was selected as a potential
payload for the REXUS 13/14 sounding rocket
campaign to be launched from Esrange, Sweden in
March 2013. The team attended the student
training week and PDR in February at Esrange.
The project has the support of the Worshipful
Company of Scientific Instrument Makers and
EADS Astrium UK. www.rexuspolecats.com
MSSL’s annual prize giving was held on 17
November. Congratulations to the winners:
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Chris
Brockley-Blatt
–
The
Elizabeth
Puchnarewicz
Prize
for
Outstanding
Contribution to Public Outreach;
Phil Guttridge – The John Raymont award for
Outstanding
Commitment
to
MSSL's
Technology Programme;
Adam Masters - Robert Boyd award for
Outstanding Scientific Achievement;
Missagh Mehdipour – The Alan Johnstone
Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement
by a Research Student;
The “EXACT: A study of the Earth's aurora with a
Cubesat” proposal was re-submitted to the
European Research Council in February (by
Graziella Branduardi-Raymont, with support from
MSSL science and engineering groups).
Mission Status and Developments
Cassini – scientific output is still continuing apace
(see lists of papers, conferences, meetings). The
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instrument has been off since June due to issues
involving on-board grounding – under study at JPL
and SwRI. Andrew Coates attended PSG meeting,
gave a talk and interacted on the instrument off
issue. Barry Hancock had a meeting at SwRI to
help with investigations. We are hosting the next
CAPS team meeting at MSSL.
expected in February. MSSL hosted a meeting of
the UK Space Agency's ExoMars Oversight
committee on 26 Oct. Barry Hancock, Craig Leff
(presentation) and Andrew Coates represented
PanCam. Period of uncertainty following NASA
withdrawal due to budget difficulties was followed
by plans for Russian participation. Andrew Coates
and Craig Leff attended EXOC meeting at UKSA,
Swindon, 3 Feb.
Cluster – All four Cluster spacecraft and all four
PEACE instruments continue to operate well.
KuaFu - Andrew Fazakerley, as a part of the ESA
KuaFu Science Study Team, met with the rest of
the team in ESTEC in January. The team are
currently preparing a “Yellow Book” and are
participating in regular telecons.
Andrew Fazakerley presented the PEACE status at
the Cluster SWT meeting at the ESLAB
2011/Cluster 21 Workshop in Brugges (21 Sept).
Andrew Fazakerley, Roger Duthie and Natasha
th
Doss attended the 14 Cluster Cross Calibration
meeting in York (5-7 Oct). All presented on
PEACE and general data from Cluster and Double
Star.
L-Depp - Chris Owen and Dhiren Kataria attended
a team meeting for the L-Depp study consortium in
Prague (12/13 Sept). Dhiren attended the
Instrument Readiness Review at ESTEC the
following week. Chris Owen presented the MSSL
L-DEPP project to the UKSA at an RAS discussion
meeting dedicated to the ESA lunar landing project
(28 Oct).
Andrew Fazakerley and Gill Watson participated in
the Cluster SOWG in ESTEC (8/9 November).
The purpose of this meeting was to define the
scientific priorities for Cluster in the coming years.
A detailed plan of operations for 2012 and a draft
plan for 2013 were made. This period will see
Cluster operating in an “observatory mode”, with
science proposed by Guest Investigators.
Solar Orbiter - confirmed by ESA (4 Oct) as the
mission which will go in the Cosmic Vision M1
launch slot in January 2017. This is a successful
conclusion to many years of work at MSSL to help
secure this opportunity. MSSL is represented with
major roles on the SWA (P-I) and EUI (co-PI)
investigations.
A Cluster Active Archive team visited the PEACE
team at MSSL (Jan 25/6) for an annual progress
meeting. Special operations to study solar wind
turbulence for Guest Investigator Emilia
Yordanova occurred during this period.
Several members of the MSSL SWA and EUI
teams attended an EMC working group meeting at
Astrium Stevenage (14/15 Sept).
ESA lunar lander - Andrew Griffiths presented a
talk on behalf of the lunar PanCam team (including
contributions from Andrew Coates, Craig Leff and
Barry Hancock) at the RAS lunar lander meeting
on 28 October.
Chris Brockely-Blatt represented SWA at the
NASA review of the US part of SWA, which was
passed successfully.
Members of the international SWA team met at
MSSL (13/14 Dec) in order to prepare the
documentation for the SWA PDR, which at the
time was scheduled for mid-January. Unfortunately
shortly after the meeting, ESA announced a delay
in the PDR until May 2012.
EJSM-Juice – (L mission candidate) – SST
activities essentially finished; Yellow Book (study
report) delivered on time. Downselect expected
2012. Instrument workshop in Darmstadt attended
by Andrew Coates and Dhiren Kataria. Science
Study Team (SST) activities continued prior to L
class downselect process due in April 2012, and
instrument studies continued. Andrew Coates and
Barry Hancock attended a JuMMP (JUICE)
meeting in SwRI, 1-2 Dec. Several planetary group
members UK JUICE meeting at RAS 21 Feb, AJC
gave a talk. Andrew Coates attended JUICE SST
meeting, ESTEC, 8 March.
Members of the MSSL SWA and EUI teams
attended at meeting with UKSA at Imperial College
on 6 Jan. The purpose of the meeting was to
identify possible areas in which MSSL staff could
support the Imperial Magnetometer team through
the build phase for Solar Orbiter. Several areas
were identified and UKSA have awarded funds to
MSSL to provide this support.
ExoMars – Andrew Coates and Craig Leff
attended the ExoMars Science Working Team
(ESWT) in ESTEC, 13-14 Oct. Design and testing
work are continuing but there is considerable
international activity (ESA, NASA, Russia) to
decide on the programmatic status, decision
Otherwise, SWA development work is proceeding
well at MSSL, with a large number of staff now
involved in the project. Prototype analyzer parts
have been designed, manufactured and are now
being assembled at MSSL. Development of key
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mechanical and electrical subsystems is well
underway, as are preparations for the SWA PDR
scheduled for Feb. 2012. Team telecons continue
to occur regularly with ESA and Astrium.
Fortney, M. Galand, J. Gustin, M. Hedman, R.
Helled, P. Henri, S. Hess, R. Holme, O.
Karatekin, N. Krupp, J. Leisner, J. MartinTorres, A. MASTERS, H. Melin, S. Miller, I.
Müller-Wodarg, B. Noyelles, C. Paranicas, I. de
Pater, M. Pätzold, R. Prangé, E. Quémerais, E.
Roussos, A.M. Rymer, A. Sánchez-Lavega, J.
Saur, K.M. Sayanagi, P. Schenk, G. Schubert,
N. Sergis, F. Sohl, E.C. Sittler Jr., N.A. Teanby,
S. Tellmann, E. Turtle, S. Vinatier, J.-E.
Wahlund, P. Zarka, Uranus Pathfinder:
Exploring the Origins and Evolution of Ice Giant
Planets, Exp. Astron., doi:10.1007/s10686-0119251-4, published online 10 September 2011.
Arridge, C.S., N. André, C.L. Bertucci, P. Garnier,
C.M. Jackman, Z. Németh, A.M. Rymer, N.
Sergis, K. Szego, A.J. COATES, F.J. Crary,
Upstream of Saturn and Titan, Space Sci. Rev.,
162(1-4), 25-83, doi:10.1007/s11214-011-9849x, published online 19 November 2011.
Arridge, C.S., N. André, C.L. Bertucci, P. Garnier,
C.M. Jackman, Z. Németh, A.M. Rymer, N.
Sergis, K. Szego, A.J. Coates and F.J. Crary,
Upstream of Saturn and Titan, Space Science
Reviews, 162, 25-83, DOI 10.1007/s11214-0119849-x, Dec 2011.
Arridge, C.S., N. André, C.L. Bertucci, P. Garnier,
C.M. Jackman, Z. Németh, A.M. Rymer, N.
Sergis, K. Szego, A.J. Coates and F.J. Crary,
Upstream of Saturn and Titan, Space Science
Reviews, DOI 10.1007/s11214-011-9849-x,
(Online First), Nov 2011.
Arridge, C.S., N. André, H.J. McAndrews, E.J.
Bunce, M.H. Burger, K.C. Hansen, H.-W. Hsu,
R.E. Johnson, G.H. Jones, S. Kempf, K.K.
Khurana, N. Krupp, W.S. Kurth, J.S. Leisner, C.
Paranicas, E. Roussos, C.T. Russell, P.
Schippers, E.C. Sittler, H.T. Smith, M.F.
Thomsen, M.K. Dougherty, Mapping
Magnetospheric Equatorial Regions at Saturn
from Cassini Prime Mission Observations,
Space Sci. Rev., 164(1-4), pp. 1-83,
doi:10.1007/s11214-011-9850-4, 2012.
Arridge, C.S., N. André, K.K. Khurana, C.T.
Russell, S.W.H. Cowley, G. Provan, D.J.
Andrews, C.M. Jackman, A.J. COATES, E.C.
Sittler, M.K. Dougherty, D.T. Young, Periodic
motion of Saturn’s nightside plasma sheet, J.
Geophys. Res., 116, A11205,
doi:10.1029/2011JA016827, accepted 12
August 2011, published 5 November 2011.
Arridge, C.S., N. André, K.K. Khurana, C.T.
Russell, S.W.H. Cowley, G. Provan, D.J.
Andrews, C.M. Jackman, A.J. Coates, E.C.
Sittler, M.K. Dougherty, D.T. Young, Periodic
motion of Saturn’s nightside plasma sheet, J.
Geophys. Res., 116, A11205, Nov 2011.
Chris Owen and Barry Hancock represented the
SWA team at the SWT, SOWG and associated
working groups which was held in ESTEC (21-23
Feb). As well as regular business, status reports,
etc., the SOWG ran a preliminary science
operations planning exercise and there were
meetings of the in-situ and boom working groups.
Venus Express and Mars Express – papers and
presentations continuing; MEx observations
temporarily suspended on 16 Oct. MEx operations
resumed on 23 Jan. following some issues
involving onboard memory. VEx operations
ongoing during this period.
Publications – Refereed
Published
Arridge, C.S., C.B. Agnor, N. André, K.H. Baines,
L.N. Fletcher, D. Gautier, M.D. Hofstadter, G.H.
Jones, L. Lamy, Y. Langevin, O. Mousis, N.
Nettelmann, C.T. Russell, T. Stallard, M.
Tiscareno, G. Tobie, A. Bacon, C. Chaloner, M.
Guest, S. Kemble, L. Peacocke, N. Achilleos, T.
Andert, D. Banfield, S. Barabash, M.
Barthelemy, C. Bertucci, B. Cecconi, S.
Chakrabarti, A. Cheng, U. Christensen, A.
Christou, A. Coates, G. Collinson, J. Cooper, R.
Courtin, M.K. Dougherty, R.W. Ebert, M.
Entradas, J. Fortney, M. Hedman, R. Helled, P.
Henri, S. Hess, R. Holme, O. Karatekin, N.
Krupp, J. Leisner, J. Martin-Torres, A. Masters,
H.Melin, S. Miller, I. Müller-Wodarg, B.
Noyelles, C. Paranicas, I. de Pater, M. Pätzold,
E. Quémerais, E. Roussos, A.M. Rymer, A.
Sanchez, J. Saur, K. Sayanagi, P. Schenk, G.
Schubert, N. Sergis, F. Sohl, E.C. Sittler, N.A.
Teanby, S. Tellmann, E. Turtle, S. Vinatier, J.E. Wahlund, P. Zarka, Uranus Pathfinder:
Exploring the Origins and Evolution of Ice Giant
Planets, Experimental Astronomy, doi:
10.1007/s10686-011-9251-4, Sep 2011.
Arridge, C.S., C.B. Agnor, N. André, K.H. Baines,
L.N. Fletcher, D. Gautier, M.D. Hofstadter, G.H.
JONES, L. Lamy, Y. Langevin, O. Moussis, N.
Nettelmann, C.T. Russell, T. Stallard, M.S.
Tiscareno, G. Tobie, A. Bacon, C. Chaloner, M.
Guest, S. Kemble, L. Peacocke, N. Achilleos, T.
Andert, D. Banfield, S. Barabash, M.
Barthelemy, C. Bertucci, P. Brandt, B. Cecconi,
S. Chakrabarti, A. Cheng, U. Christensen, A.
Christou, A. COATES, G. Collinson, J.F.
Cooper, R. Courtin, M.K. Dougherty, R.W.
Ebert, M. Entradas, A.N. FAZAKERLEY, J.J.
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Badman, S. V., N. Achilleos, C. S. Arridge, K. H.
Baines, R. H. Brown, E. J. Bunce, A. J. Coates,
S. W. H. Cowley, M. K. Dougherty, M. Fujimoto,
G. B. Hospodarsky, S. Kasahara, T. Kimura, H.
Melin, D. G. Mitchell, T. Stallard, C. Tao,
Correction to "Cassini observations of ion and
electron beams at Saturn and their relationship
to infrared auroral arcs", J. Geophys. Res.,
doi:10.1029/2012JA017617, accepted February
2012.
Badman, S.V., N. Achilleos, C.S. Arridge, K.H.
Baines, R.H. Brown, E.J. Bunce, A.J. Coates,
S.W.H. Cowley, M.K. Dougherty, M. Fujimoto,
G.B. Hospodarsky, S. Kasahara, T. Kimura, H.
Melin, D.G. Mitchell, T. Stallard, C. Tao, Cassini
observations of ion and electron beams at
Saturn and their relationship to infrared auroral
arcs, J. Geophys. Res., 117, A01211,
doi:10.1029/2011JA017222, 2012.
Bedington, R., D. Kataria & D. Walton “Using a
CCD for the direct detection of electrons in a
low energy space plasma spectrometer”,
Journal of Instrumentation, 7, C01079, 2012
Beyene, S., Owen, C. J., Walsh, A. P., Forsyth, C.,
Fazakerley, A. N., Kiehas, S., Dandouras, I.,
and Lucek, E.: Cluster observations of a
transient signature in the magnetotail:
implications for the mode of reconnection, Ann.
Geophys., 29, 2131-2146, 2011.
Gurgiolo, C., M. L. Goldstein, A. F. Viñas,
W. H. Matthaeus, and A. N. Fazakerley:
Observations of electron vorticity in the inner
plasma sheet, Ann. Geophys., 29, 15171527, 2011
Coates, A.J., Enceladus, in McGraw-Hill Yearbook
of Science & Technology 2012, ISBN 978-007177403-1, pp72-76, McGraw-Hill, New York,
2012.
Coates, A.J., J.-E. Wahlund, K. Ågren, N. Edberg,
J. Cui, A. Wellbrock and K. Szego, Recent
results from Titan’s ionosphere, Space Science
Reviews, 162, 85-111, DOI 10.1007/s11214011-9826-4, Dec 2011.
Coates, A.J., J.-E. Wahlund, K. Ågren, N. Edberg,
J. Cui, A. Wellbrock and K. Szego, Recent
results from Titan’s ionosphere, Space Science
Reviews, in press, DOI 10.1007/s11214-0119826-4, (Online First) Oct 2011.
Collinson, G.A., D.G. Sibeck, A. Masters, N.
Shane, J.A. Slavin, A.J. Coates, T.L. Zhang, M.
Sarantos, S. Boardsen, T.E. Moore, S.
Barabash, Hot flow anomalies at Venus, J.
Geophys. Res., in press February 2012.
Collinson, G.A., D.G. Sibeck, A. Masters, N.
Shane, J.A. Slavin, A.J. Coates, T.L. Zhang, M.
Sarantos, S. Boardsen, T.E. Moore, and S.
Barabash, Hot Flow Anomalies at Venus, J.
Geophys. Res., in press, Feb 2012.
Cousins, C., M Gunn, B Prosser, D Barnes, I
Crawford, A Griffiths, L Davis, A Coates,
Selecting the geology filter wavelengths for the
ExoMars Panoramic Camera instrument,
Planetary and Spac Science, in press, Jan
2012.
Cousins, C., M. Gunn, B. Prosser, D. Barnes, I.
Crawford, A. Griffiths, L. Davis, A. Coates,
Selecting the geology filter wavelengths for the
ExoMars Panoramic Camera instrument,
Planet. Space Sci., in press January 2012.
Dunlop, M.W. Q. -H. Zhang, Y. V. Bogdanova, K.H. Trattner, Z. Pu, H., Hasegawa, J. Berchem,
J. Wang, M. G. G. T. Taylor, M. Volverk, B.,
Lavraud, C. Shen, J.-K. Shi, D. Constantinescu,
A. N. Fazakerley, H.
Frey, D. Sibeck, P. Escoubet, J. Eastwood, J
Wild, . Extended Reconnection structure across
wide local time, Annales Geophysicae, 29,
1683-1697, 2011.
Fletcher, L., Dennis, B. R., Hudson, H. S., Krucker,
S., Phillips, K. J. H., Veronig, A., Battaglia, M..,
Bone, L., Caspi, A., Chen, Q., Gallagher, P.,
Grigis, P. T., "An observational overview of
solar flares." Space Science Reviews, 159, 19106 (2011), http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.5932
Fletcher, L., Dennis, B. R., Hudson, H. S., Krucker,
S., Phillips, K. J. H., Veronig, A., Battaglia, M..,
Bone, L., Caspi, A., Chen, Q., Gallagher, P.,
Grigis, P. T., "An observational overview of
solar flares." Space Science Reviews, 159, 19106 (2011).
Grand, R., Kawata, D. and Cropper, M.S., The
dynamics of stars around spiral arms, Mon Not.
R. astr. Soc., 421, Issue 2, 1529-1538,
Grigorenko, E.E., L.M. Zelenyi, M.S. Dolgonosov,
A.V. Artemiev, C.J. Owen, J.-A. Sauvaud, M.
Hoshino & M. Hirai “Non-adiabatic Ion
Acceleration in the Earth Magnetotail and Its
Various Manifestations in the Plasma Sheet
Boundary Layer”, Space Sci. Rev., 2011,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.20411.x
Krupp, N., E. Roussos, P. Kollmann, C. Paranicas,
D.G. Mitchell, S.M. Krimigis, A. Rymer, G.H.
Jones, C.S. Arridge, T.P. Armstrong, K.K.
Khurana, The Cassini Enceladus encounters
2005-2010 in the view of energetic electron
measurements, Icarus, 218,
doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2011.12.018, 2012.
Kurth, W. S., D. A. Gurnett, J. D. Menietti, R. L.
Mutel, M. G. Kivelson, E. J. Bunce, S. W. H.
Cowley, D. L. Talboys, M. K. Dougherty, C.
Arridge, A. Coates, S. Grimald, L. Lamy, P.
Zarka, B. Cecconi, P. Schippers, N. André, P.
Louarn, D. Mitchell, J. S. Leisner, M. W.
Morooka, A close encounter with a Saturn
kilometric radiation source region, submitted to
Planetary Radio Emissions VII proceedings,
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OAW/IWF, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Press, 75-85, Vienna, 2011
Ma, Y.J., C.T. Russell, A. F. Nagy, G. Toth, M. K.
Dougherty, A. Wellbrock, A. J. Coates, P.
Garnier, J-E. Wahlund, T. E. Cravens, M. S.
Richard, F. J. Crary, The Importance of Thermal
Electron Heating in Titan's Ionosphere Comparison with Cassini T34 Flyby, J.
Geophys. Res., 116, A10213, Oct 2011.
Marklund, G. T.; Sadeghi, S.; Cumnock, J. A.;
Karlsson, T.; Lindqvist, P. A.; Nilsson, H.;
Masson, A.; Fazakerley, A.; Lucek, E.; Pickett,
J. & Zhang, Y., Evolution in space and time of
the quasi-static acceleration potential of
inverted-V aurora and its interaction with
Alfvénic boundary processes : J. Geophys.
Res., 116, A00K13, 2011.
Marklund, G. T.; Sadeghi, S.; Cumnock, J. A.;
Karlsson, T.; Lindqvist, P. A.; Nilsson, H.;
Masson, A.; Fazakerley, A.; Lucek, E.; Pickett,
J. & Zhang, Y., Evolution in space and time of
the quasi-static acceleration potential of
inverted-V aurora and its interaction with
Alfvénic boundary processes : J. Geophys.
Res., 116, A00K13, 2011
Masters, A., N. Achilleos, J. C. Cutler, A. J.
Coatesa, M. K. Dougherty and G. H. Jones,
Surface waves on Saturn’s magnetopause,
Planet Space Sci., in press, DOI
10.1016/j.pss.2012.02.007, Feb 2012.
Masters, A., N. Achilleos, J.C. Cutler, A.J. Coates,
M.K. Dougherty, G.H. Jones, Surface waves on
Saturn's magnetopause, Planet. Space Sci.,
doi:10.1016/j.pss.2012.02.007, available online
February 2012.
Masters, A., S.J. Schwartz, E.M. Henley, M.F.
Thomsen, B. Zieger, A.J. Coates, N. Achilleos,
J. Mitchell, K.C. Hansen and M.K. Dougherty,
Electron heating at Saturn’s bow shock, J.
Geophys. Res., 116, A10107, Oct 2011.
Menietti, J.D., P. Schippers, O. Santolík, D. A.
Gurnett, F. Crary and A. J. Coates, Ion
Cyclotron Harmonics in the Saturn Downward
Current Auroral Region, J. Geophys. Res., 116,
A12234, Dec 2011.
Nemeth, Z., K. Szego, Z. Bebesi , G. Erdos , L.
Foldy , A.M. Rymer , E. Sittler, Jr. , A.J. Coates
, A. Wellbrock, Ion distributions of different
Kronian plasma regions, J. Geophys. Res.,
Volume 116, Issue A9, CiteID A09212,
doi:10.1029/2011JA016585, Sep 2011.
Paranicas, C., E. Roussos, N. Krupp, P. Kollmann,
A.R. Hendrix, T. Cassidy, R.E. Johnson, P.
Schenk, G. Jones, D.G. Mitchell, J. Carbary, K.
Dialynas, Energetic charged particle weathering
of Saturn's inner satellites, Planet. Space Sci.,
61(1), pp. 60-65,
doi:10.1016/j.pss.2011.02.012, accepted
February 2012.
Pérez-de-Tejada, H., R. Lundin, S. Barabash, J.-A.
Sauvaud, A.J. Coates, T. L. Zhang, D.
Winningham, M. Reyes-Ruiz, H. DurandManterola, Plasma transition at the flanks of the
Venus ionosheath: evidence from the Venus
Express data, J. Geophys. Res., 116, A01103,
doi:10.1029/2009JA015216, Jan 2011.
Phillips, K. J. H. "The Solar Photospheric-tocoronal Fe Abundance from X-ray Fluorescence
Lines." Monthly Notices RAS vol. 421, 1757P
(2012). http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.5552
Phillips, K. J. H., Dennis, B. R. "The Solar Flare
Iron Abundance." Astrophysical Journal, vol.
748, 52P (2012). http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2875
Provan, G., D. J. Andrews, C. S. Arridge, A. J.
Coates, S. W. H. Cowley, G. Cox, M. K.
Dougherty, and C. M. Jackman, Dual
periodicities in planetary period magnetic field
oscillations in Saturn’s tail, J. Geophys. Res.,
117, A01209, Jan 2012.
Provan, G., D.J. Andrews, C.S. Arridge, A.J.
Coates, S.W.H. Cowley, G. Cox, M.K.
Dougherty, C.M. Jackman, Dual periodicities in
planetary period magnetic field oscillations in
Saturn’s tail, J. Geophys. Res., 117, A01209,
doi:10.1029/2011JA017104, 2012.
Radziszewski, K., Rudawy, P., Phillips, K. J. H.
"High time resolution observations of solar Hα
flares. II. Search for signatures of electron
beam heating". Astronomy & Astrophysics vol.
535, pp. A123-A130 (2011).
http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.4750
Radziszewski, K., Rudawy, P., Phillips, K. J. H.
"High time resolution observations of solar Hα
flares. II. Search for signatures of electron
beam heating". Astronomy & Astrophysics vol.
535, pp. A123-A130 (2011).
Richard, M.S., T.E. Cravens, I. P. Robertson, J.H.
Waite, J.-E. Wahlund, F.J. Crary and A.J.
Coates, Energetics of Titan’s Ionosphere:
Model Comparisons with Cassini Data, J.
Geophys. Res., 116, Issue A9, CiteID A09310,
doi:10.1029/2011JA016603, 2011.
Shen, C., M. Dunlop, Y. Ma, Z. Chen, G. Yan, Z.
Liu, Y. Bogdanova, D. G. Sibeck, C. Carr, Q.-H.
Zhang, and E. Lucek, The magnetic
configuration of the high-latitude cusp and
dayside magnetopause under strong magnetic
shears, J. Geophys. Res., v. 116, 2011.
Smith, A., I A Crawford, R.A. Gowen, R Ambrosi,
M Anand, B Banerdt, N Bannister, N Bowles, C
Braithwaite, P Brown, J Chela-Flores, T
Cholinser, P Church, A J Coates, T Colaprete,
G Collins, G Collinson, T Cook, R Elphic, G
Fraser, Y Gao, E Gibson, T Glotch, M Grande,
A Griffiths, J Grygorczuk, M Gudipati, A
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In press
Coates, A.J., Enceladus, McGraw-Hill Yearbook of
Science & Technology, in press, May 2011.
Coates, A.J., Ion Pickup and Acceleration:
Measurements from Planetary Missions, AIP
proceedings volume ‘Physics of the
heliosphere: a 10-year retrospective’, 10th
Annual Astrophysics Conference, in press, Sep
2011.
Menietti, J.D., P. Schippers, O. Santolík, D. A.
Gurnett, F. Crary and A. J. Coates, Ion
Cyclotron Harmonics in the Saturn Downward
Current Auroral Region, J. Geophys. Res., in
press, Dec 2011.
Provan, G., D. J. Andrews, C. S. Arridge, A. J.
Coates, S. W. H. Cowley, G. Cox, M. K.
Dougherty, and C. M. Jackman, Dual
periodicities in planetary period magnetic field
oscillations in Saturn’s tail, J. Geophys. Res., in
press, Nov 2011.
Sylwester, J., Sylwester, B., Phillips, K. J. H.,
Kuznetsov, V. D. "The Solar Flare Sulphur
Abundance from RESIK Observations."
Astrophysical Journal (in press).
http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.5888
Wellbrock, A., A.J. Coates, I. Sillanpää, G.H.
Jones, C.S. Arridge, G.R. Lewis, D.T. Young,
F.J. Crary, A.D. Aylward, Cassini observations
of ionospheric photoelectrons at large distances
from Titan: Implications for Titan’s exospheric
environment and magnetic tail, J. Geophys.
Res., 117, A03216,
doi:10.1029/2011JA017113, in press February
2012.
Hagermann, J Heldmann, L L Hood, A P Jones,
K Joy, O B Khavroshkin, G Klingelhoefer, M
Knapmeyer, G Kramer, D Lawrence, W
Marczewski, S McKenna-Lawlor, K Miljkovic, S
Narendranath, E Palomba, A Phipps, W T Pike,
D Pullan, J Rask, D T Richard, K Seweryn, S
Sheridan, M Sims, M Sweeting, T Swindle, D
Talboys, Lunar Net - A proposal in response to
an ESA M3 call in 2010 for a medium sized
mission, Experimental Astronomy, doi:
10.1007/s10686-011-9250-5, Sep 2011.
Teh, W.-L., R. Nakamura, B. U. Ö. Sonnerup, J. P.
Eastwood, M. Volwerk, A. N. Fazakerley, and
W. Baumjohann, Evidence of the origin of the
Hall magnetic field for reconnection: Hall MHD
reconstruction results from Cluster
observations, J. Geophys. Res., 116, A11218,
2011
Thompson, W. T., Kliem, B., Toeroek, T., 3D
reconstruction of a rotating erupting
prominence, Solar Phys., 276, 241. DOI:
10.1007/s11207-011-9868-5
Tokar, R.L., R.E.Johnson, M.F.Thomsen, E.C.
Sittler, A.J. Coates, R.J. Wilson, F.J. Crary, D.T.
Young, G.H. Jones, Detection of Exospheric
O2+ at Saturn’s Moon Dione, Geophys. Res.
Lett., 39, L03105, 2012,
doi:10.1029/2011GL050452, Feb 2012.
Volwerk, M., J. Berchem, Y.V. Bogdanova, O.D.
Constantinescu, M.W. Dunlop, J.P. Eastwood,
P. Escoubet, A.N. Fazakerley, H. Frey, H.
Hasegawa, B. Lavraud, E.V. Panov, C. Shen,
J.K. Shi, M.G.G.T. Taylor, J. Wang, J.A. Wild,
Q.H. Zhang, O. Amm, and J.M. Weygand,
Interplanetary magnetic field rotations followed
from L1 to the ground: the response of the
Earth's magnetosphere as seen by multispacecraft and ground-based observations,
Annales Geophysicae, v.29, p.1549-1569,
2011.
Wellbrock, A., A.J. Coates, I. Sillanpää, G. H.
Jones, C. S. Arridge, G.R. Lewis, D. T. Young,
F.J. Crary, A. D. Aylward, Cassini observations
of ionospheric photoelectrons at large distances
from Titan: Implications for Titan’s exospheric
environment and magnetic tail, J. Geophys.
Res., 117, A03216,
doi:10.1029/2011JA017113, Mar 2012.
Zhang, Q.-H.; Dunlop, M. W.; Liu, R.-Y.; Yang, H.G.; Hu, H.-Q.; Zhang, B.-C.; Lester, M.;
Bogdanova, Y. V.; McCrea, I. W.; Hu, Z.-J.;
Crothers, S. R.; La Hoz, C.; Nielsen, C. P.,
Coordinated Cluster/Double Star and groundbased observations of dayside reconnection
signatures on 11 February 2004, Annales
Geophysicae, v.29, p.1827-1847, 2011.
Publications - Non-refereed
Published
Phillips, K. J. H. "Signature of solar axions". 6th
Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs, and
WISPs". 5-6 July 2010, Zurich. P. 81 of
Proceedings (2011) which are on http://wwwlibrary.desy.de/confprocs.html
PhDs Awarded
Alison Hartshorn (nee Wallace) successfully
defended her thesis on 16 Dec. with only minor
correction required.
Invited Talks and Conferences
Geraint Jones, Adam Masters, Yudish
Ramanjooloo and Andrew Walsh attended the
AGU Fall meeting in San Fransisco, 5-9 Dec.
Geraint presented an invited review talk on surface
changing and dust at the moons of the outer
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planets and Adam co-organised a successful
session on Saturn’s magnetosphere. The
Planetary Science Group was represented on
more than 8 presentations:
instruments on Cluster. Adam gave an invited talk
on Saturn’s magnetopause and boundary layers.
Andrew Walsh gave a seminar at Imperial College
(18 Oct) on his work examining the statistics of ion
and electron pitch angle distributions in Earth’s
magnetotail.
Masters, A., J.P. Eastwood, M.M. Swisdak, C.T.
Russell, M.F. Thomsen, N. Sergis, F.J. Crary,
M.K. Dougherty, A.J. Coates, S.M. Krimigis,
Why dayside reconnection is rare at Saturn;
Jones, G.H., A.J. Coates, A. Wellbrock, Negative
ion flow at Titan;
Ramanjooloo, Y., G.H. Jones, A.J. Coates, The
structure of the inner heliosphere as revealed
by amateur astronomers’ images of comets;
Arridge, C.S., G.R. Lewis, A. Masters, M.F.
Thomsen, A.J. Coates; M.K. Dougherty,
Distribution of Broadened Upper-Hybrid
Emissions in Saturn’s Middle Magnetosphere;
Leisner, J.S., G.B. Hospodarsky, A.M. Persoon, P.
Schippers, D.A. Gurnett, A.J. Coates, Survey of
Anisotropic Electron Moments in Saturn’s
Magnetosphere;
Schippers, P., N. André, D.A. Gurnett, G.R. Lewis,
A.J. Coates, A.M. Persoon, Longitudinal
Modulation of Electron Populations in the
Saturnian Inner Magnetosphere;
Provan, G., D.J. Andrews, C.S. Arridge, A.J.
Coates, S.W. Cowley, G. Cox, M.K. Dougherty,
C.M. Jackman, Dual periodicities in planetary
period magnetic field oscillations in Saturn’s tail;
Collinson, G.A., D.G. Sibeck, A. Masters, N.
Shane, J.A. Slavin, A.J. Coates, T. Zhang, S.A.
Boardsen, T.E. Moore, S. Barabash, Hot Flow
Anomalies at Venus.
Colin Forsyth gave seminars at the University of
Leicester (15 Nov) and Imperial College (22 Nov)
on his work examining auroral acceleration using
Cluster.
Andrew Walsh, Roger Duthie, Yudish
Ramanjooloo, Adam Masters and Colin Forsyth
gave presentations at the Autumn MIST meeting,
held at the Royal Astronomical Society (25 Nov).
Andrew talked on observations of the solar wind
electron population out to Saturn; Roger talked on
the link between fast plasma flows in Earth's
magnetotail and dipolarisations in the inner
magnetosphere; Yudish talked about determining
solar wind properties from observations on comet
tails and Adam talked about reconnection at
Saturn. Colin presented a poster on Cluster
observations of the auroral acceleration region.
The meeting was organised by Colin as part of his
duties on MIST council.
Andrew Coates presented 7 hours of invited
lectures (The ionosphere of Mars, The Mars-solar
wind interaction, Atmospheric escape and
nd
Comparative plasma interactions) at the 2 ESAChinaMars Advanced School, Weihai, Shandong,
China, 21/22 Sept.
Graziella Branduardi-Raymont, Andrew Coates
and Adam Masters attended the joint meeting of
the European Planetary Science Congress and the
American Astronomical Society Division for
Planetary Sciences in Nantes (3-7 Oct) and gave
presentations and posters:
Members of the Planetary Group attended a
workshop on ESA’s JUICE mission at the Royal
Astronomical Society on 21 Feb in which Andrew
Coates gave a talk on astrobiological studies with
JUICE.
Ken Phillips and Lucie Green gave invited reviews
at the International Moscow Workshop, "The Sun:
from Quiet to Active", Aug/Sept 2011. Ken’s review
was entitled "New light on the FIP effect: coronal
abundances from RESIK and RHESSI".
Graziella Branduardi-Raymont, “Comparative X-ray
planetary aurorae: physical processes and
diagnostic potential” (invited) and posters on
“AXIOM: Advanced X-ray Imaging of the
Magnetosphere” and “Searching for Saturn's Xray aurorae: a novel strategy”.
A. Masters, N. Achilleos, J. C. Cutler, A. J. Coates,
and M. K. Dougherty, Surface waves on
Saturn's magnetopause;
J. S. Leisner, G. Cinar, G. B. Hospodarsky, C. S.
Arridge, D. A. Gurnett, and A. J. Coates,
Evidence of time-variable electrons at Saturn:
Quasi-periodic whistler mode emissions in the
inner magnetosphere;
A.M. Rymer, B.H. Mauk, T.W. Hill, D.G. Mitchell,
and A.J. Coates, Plasma heating via injection
and circulation at Saturn;
Chris Owen and Louise Harra lectured to the
STFC Introductory Summer School in St Andrews
(5-9 Sept).
Colin Forsyth, Andrew Walsh, Andrew Fazakerley,
Adam Masters and Roger Duthie attended the
ESLAB 2011/Cluster 21 Workshop in Bruges,
Belgium (19-23 Sept). Colin gave an invited talk on
Cluster observations of auroral acceleration;
Andrew Walsh gave a contributed talk on electron
and ion pitch angle distribution in Earth’s
magnetotail. Roger presented a poster on the
cross calibration of the PEACE, CIS and EFW
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A.J. Coates, A.D. Griffiths, C.E. Leff, C.R. Cousins,
R. Jaumann, N. Schmitz, J.-L. Josset, G. Paar,
D.P. Barnes, and the PanCam Team, The
PanCam instrument for the ExoMars 2018
rover: science objectives and instrument
characteristics;
D. Barnes, M. Wilding, M. Gunn, L. Tyler, S. Pugh,
A. Coates, A. Griffiths, C. Cousins, N. Schmitz,
and G. Paar, The PanCam Calibration Target
(PCT) and multispectral image processing for
the ExoMars 2018 mission;
A.M. Rymer, D.G. Mitchell, T.W. Hill, D.T. Young,
J. Saur, G.H. Jones, S. Jacobsen, S.W.H.
Cowley, B.H. Mauk, A.J. Coates, and W.R.
Pryor, Energy and distribution of field aligned
ions and electrons near Enceladus;
M. K. Dougherty, O. Grasset, E. Bunce, A.
Coustenis, D. V. Titov, Ch. Erd, M. Blanc, A. J.
Coates, A. Coradini, P. Drossart, L. Fletcher, H.
Hussmann, R. Jaumann, N. Krupp, O. PrietoBallesteros, P. Tortora, F. Tosi, T. Van Hoolst,
and J.-P. Lebreton, JUICE (JUpiter ICy moon
Explorer): a European-led mission to the Jupiter
system;
G. H. Jones, E. Roussos, A. J. Coates, and F.
Crary, Surface Charging of Saturn's moon
Rhea.
institutions, and which featured in the Royal
Society Exhibition in summer 2011, was selected
to be part of the British Science Festival in
Aberdeen This will take place from 4-9 September
2012 and is hosted by the University of Aberdeen.
Chris Arridge:
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Talked on planetary science to year 6 students
at Auriol Junior School, Epsom;
performed at Science Showoff in London in
February;
gave a popular UCL Junior Masterclass on
“Flowing Fluids: From Rivers to Stars and
Planets”.
Rob Bedington and Arrow Lee:
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organised and ran six "fun physics with fluids"
sessions for Cranleigh Scout Troops.
Andrew Coates talked on:
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Andrew Coates attended the Cassini PSG in JPL,
Pasadena, 25-27 Oct and presented a talk Coates, A.J., G.H.Jones, R.L.Tokar and F.J.Crary,
CAPS ELS data at Dione, presented at Satellitemagnetosphere interactions workshop IV.
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Adam Masters visited the Institute for Space and
Astronautical (Japanese Aerospace and
Exploration Agency), Tokyo, Japan, 8-22 Oct,
giving 2 seminars – “Saturn’s near-space
environment as revealed by the Cassini
spacecraft,” and “The interaction between the solar
wind and Saturn’s magnetosphere”.
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Mat Page, Myrto Symeonidis and Jason Rawlings
attended the ESAC workshop “The Starburst-AGN
Connection under the Multiwavelength Limelight,”
in Madrid (13-16 Sept). They all gave talks on their
current research.
“Latest results from Cassini-Huygens”, at
Herschel Astronomical Society, Eton, 9 Sept;
Exploring our solar system at Sark (world’s first
dark skies island) SASTROs Starfest, 21 Oct;
Mars exploration at East Sussex Astronomical
Society, 3 Nov;
Recent results from Cassini at Cambridge
University Astronomical Society, 15 Nov;
Oceans on Other Worlds at Croydon
Astronomical Society, 18 Nov;
JUICE – Jupiter Icy moons Explorer
Europe’s mission to Ganymede and Europa,
and ExoMars, a talk for home-educated
children, MSSL 6 Dec;
“Recent results from Cassini” at Ewell
astronomical society, 13 Jan;
“Recent results from Cassini”, at Letchworth
Astronomical Society 25 Jan;
“Oceans on Other Worlds” at Cody
Astronomical Society, 6 March.
Colin Forsyth:
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was invited to speak at the Radio Society of
Great Britain’s Annual Convention at Horwood
House near Milton Keynes (8/9 Oct). Colin gave
two talks entitled “It’s full of plasma – how
space weather and radio waves are linked”;
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attended
the
National
Space
Centre
CareersFest (14 Nov) event to talk to A-level
students about life as a research scientist.
Rob Bedington presented, "Using a CCD for the
direct detection of electrons in a low energy space
plasma spectrometer" at the Ninth International
Conference on Position Sensitive Detectors in
Aberystwyth in September.
Outreach
Sheila Kanani:
The outreach exhibit “Cluster : Auroral Explorer”,
put together by members of the Space Plasma
Group at MSSL as well as other groups from other
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Spacetacular at Manchester Science Festival
with Helen Keen, 27 Oct;
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Andrew Fazakerley was also a part.
Bright Club Stars at the Bloomsbury Theatre on
with various comedians, 11 Nov;
Skeptics in the Planetarium at the Intech Centre
with Robin Ince on 8 Dec;
talk on Planetary Science for the British
Interplanetary Society, 14 Dec.
We are pleased to welcome two new PhD students
who started at MSSL in January. Ali Varsani has
joined the Space Plasma Physics group to study
the dayside magnetopause using Cluster and
Double Star. Emma Gale has joined the Climate
Extremes group and is undertaking a project on
the development of US and Southeast Asian
extreme weather climatologies
George Seabroke:
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gave a public outreach talk on possible
astronomy and space projects that a group of
"Gifted and Talented" children from years 3-6
(7-11 year olds) at Barrow Hill Primary School
could do (11 Jan) On 29 Feb George visited
them to see their project presentations.
Press Releases
Andrew Coates and Geraint Jones were quoted in
a UCL press release, which also resulted in a news
story on BBC News online, on the discovery of an
oxygen atmosphere around Saturn’s moon Dione.
Other News Items/Activities
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/newsarticles/March2012/02032012-oxygen-at-saturnsmoon-dione
Congratulations to Climates Extremes (Mark
Saunders, Adam Lea and Alan Muir) for winning
the 2011 MSSL Croquet Tournament, beating the
Technology Management Group (Michael Emes,
Ady James, Phil Williams and Matt Wyndham) 144 in the final. This is Climate Extremes’ third
consecutive title, and their 4th in total!
Media Broadcasts and Features
Chris Arridge was interviewed for an article in
Astrobiology magazine
(http://astrobio.net/exclusive/4266/mission-tomysterious-uranus).
Chris and Lyanne Owen would like to thank the
many MSSL staff who conveyed their good wishes
and/or contributed to the present from MSSL
following the birth of their son Toby on Nov. 16.
Andrew Coates:
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George and Suzie Seabroke’s first baby daughter
Annabelle was born on 15 January. They would
like to thank everyone for their kind messages.
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Chuan Li left MSSL for a permanent post in his
homeland China (1 Sept). We wish him well.
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Ken Phillips visited the Space Research Centre,
Wroclaw, Poland, in September and March to
continue an on-going research project about solar
flare abundances from the RESIK instrument that
flew on Coronas-F in 2001-2003.
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Andrew Coates was featured in an interview with
Thomson Reuters ScienceWatch in November as
part of a special on Planetary Exploration, where
based on papers in the last 10 years he came out
number 2 in number of papers and number 6 in
citations internationally. See
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/mssl/planetaryscience/news/planetary-news/ajc-sciencewatch
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In December, Andrew Fazakerely was appointed
to the ESA SSEWG committee and attended an
SSEWG meeting at ESA HQ, Paris (16/17 Jan),
and a Science Programme Advisory Committee
(SPAC) meeting with the UK Space Agency on 8
February.
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Dr. Colin Forsyth attended an ISSI auroral science
meeting in the week of 13 February, of which Prof.
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Interviews about Chinese satellite launch and
space programme, BBC World ‘Impact’
programme, 29 Sept, and on CNN, 30 Sept;
Interview on Galileo and GPS, for Sky News
web page, 20 Oct (used 21 Oct);
Interviews on BBC News channel during MSL
launch, and for Channel 4 and ITV Channel 3
news, on MSL launch and prospects for
ExoMars, 26 Nov;
Interview for BBC TV news on Kepler
confirmation of Earth-like planet around a Sunlike star, 5 Dec, (used BBC News website, BBC
News Channel; also BBC radio news re giant
black hole);
BBC science/environment news on first Earthsize extrasolar planet, 20 Dec;
Interview for BBCR4 News on detection of
planets around more than half of stars in milky
way, 11 Jan (used 12/1 midnight news);
Interview for BBC World Service, Marketplace
Morning Reports (for NPR, USA), on space
weather effects, 24 Jan;
Interview on BBC R4 Today programme, on
space exploration and prospects for a US moon
base, 26 Jan; also on BBC World Service,
Newshour, 27 Jan;
Interview on BBC News Channel on meteorite
from Mars and Mars space missions, also for
BBC news 8 Feb.
Roger Duthie appeared on The One Show (aired:
9 Sept) and Newsround (29 Sept) to talk about the
work being done at the lab to contact the only
British-launched satellite, “Prospero”.
Colin Forsyth and Lucie Green were interviewed
by Will Gater for an article on the aurora in the
November issue of Sky At Night Magazine.
There was significant press, TV and radio
coverage surrounding the 4 October selection of
Solar Orbiter and Euclid as the Cosmic Vision M1
and M2 missions.
Next Issue
The next issue of The Newsletter (Volume 10,
Issue 1) will be published in June 2012. This will
cover activities from 1 March to 31 May 2012.
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