From 400d1b421135045a2368684917e4e6ccf09527e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Renard Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 11:48:33 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Fix in Solar Orbiter RPW description --- Instrument/CDPP-AMDA/Solar_Orbiter/RPW.xml | 29 +++++++---------------------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) diff --git a/Instrument/CDPP-AMDA/Solar_Orbiter/RPW.xml b/Instrument/CDPP-AMDA/Solar_Orbiter/RPW.xml index d827517..b8243fb 100644 --- a/Instrument/CDPP-AMDA/Solar_Orbiter/RPW.xml +++ b/Instrument/CDPP-AMDA/Solar_Orbiter/RPW.xml @@ -14,29 +14,14 @@ which drive Solar Orbiter overall science objectives: * How do solar eruptions produce energetic particle radiation that fills the heliosphere? * How does the solar dynamo work and drive connections between the Sun and the heliosphere? + Here is the summary of the specific RPW Science Objectives: -* Solar and Interplanetary Radio Burst: -- What is the role of shocks and flares in accelerating particles near the Sun? -- How is the Sun connected magnetically to the interplanetary medium? -- What are the sources and the global dynamics of eruptive events? -- What is the role of ambient medium conditions on particle acceleration and propagation? -- How do variations and structure in the solar wind affect low frequency radio wave propagation? -* Electron density and temperature measurements with the Quasi-Thermal Noise spectroscopy: -- Precise measurement of both the electron density and temperature, with accuracies respectively of a few % and around 10 %, at perihelion. -- Study the non-thermal character of the electron distributions at perihelion. -* Radio emission processes from electron beams: Langmuir waves and electromagnetic mode conversion: -- Measurements for the first time in the Solar Wind of both the electric and magnetic field waveforms at high time resolution (up to 500 kSs). -- Study of the mode conversion from Langmuir to electromagnetic waves. -- Study of the energy balance between electron beams, Langmuir waves and e.m. radio waves at several radial distances -* Solar wind microphysics and turbulence: -- Measure of the waves associated with the plasma instabilities that are generated by temperature anisotropies in the solar wind. -- First DC/LF electric field measurements in the inner heliosphere and over a large radial distance in the solar. -* Shocks, Reconnection, Current Sheets, and Magnetic Holes: -- Identification and study of the reconnection process in current sheets with thickness down to the ion scales and smaller. -- Determination of the interplanetary shock structure down to the spatial and temporal scales comparable and smaller than the typical ion scales. -- Determination of different particle energisation mechanisms within shocks and reconnection regions. -- Distinguish different radio burst generation mechanisms. Interplanetary Dust -- Determination, in combination with the EPD instrument, the spatial distribution, mass and dynamics of dust particles in the near-Sun heliosphere, in and out of the ecliptic. +* Solar and Interplanetary Radio Burst: - What is the role of shocks and flares in accelerating particles near the Sun? - How is the Sun connected magnetically to the interplanetary medium? - What are the sources and the global dynamics of eruptive events? - What is the role of ambient medium conditions on particle acceleration and propagation? - How do variations and structure in the solar wind affect low frequency radio wave propagation? +* Electron density and temperature measurements with the Quasi-Thermal Noise spectroscopy: - Precise measurement of both the electron density and temperature, with accuracies respectively of a few % and around 10 %, at perihelion. - Study the non-thermal character of the electron distributions at perihelion. +* Radio emission processes from electron beams: Langmuir waves and electromagnetic mode conversion: - Measurements for the first time in the Solar Wind of both the electric and magnetic field waveforms at high time resolution (up to 500 kSs). - Study of the mode conversion from Langmuir to electromagnetic waves. - Study of the energy balance between electron beams, Langmuir waves and e.m. radio waves at several radial distances +* Solar wind microphysics and turbulence: - Measure of the waves associated with the plasma instabilities that are generated by temperature anisotropies in the solar wind. - First DC/LF electric field measurements in the inner heliosphere and over a large radial distance in the solar. +* Shocks, Reconnection, Current Sheets, and Magnetic Holes: - Identification and study of the reconnection process in current sheets with thickness down to the ion scales and smaller. - Determination of the interplanetary shock structure down to the spatial and temporal scales comparable and smaller than the typical ion scales. - Determination of different particle energisation mechanisms within shocks and reconnection regions. - Distinguish different radio burst generation mechanisms. Interplanetary Dust - Determination, in combination with the EPD instrument, the spatial distribution, mass and dynamics of dust particles in the near-Sun heliosphere, in and out of the ecliptic. + To cover its specific Science Objectives, RPW will measure magnetic and electric fields at high time resolution using a number of sensors, to determine the characteristics of electromagnetic and electrostatic -- libgit2 0.21.2