Interball in the ISTP Program: Studies of the Solar Wind-Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Interaction (NATO Science Series C:)
Contributors: David Gary Sibeck (Editor); Karel Kudela (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: August 31, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780792358640
Subjects: Astrophysics; Electricity, magnetism & electromagnetism; Solar-terrestrial phenomena; Science; Science/Mathematics; Astrophysics & Space Science; Science / Astrophysics & Space Science; Astronomy - General
First sentence: A group of experimenters had gathered around the Equator-S planning team already in early 1991.
Description: An up-to-date progress report on the current status of solar-terrestrial relation studies with an emphasis on observations by the Russian Interball spacecraft and the Czech Magion subsatellites. Papers in the volume describe the various spacecraft in the International Solar-Terrestrial Program and the research questions that they are being used to address. The emphasis is on correlative studies employing multiple instruments and multiple spacecraft. The book begins with a description of each spacecraft active in 1998 and describes the roles they can play in correlative studies. This is followed by an up-to-date status report concerning ongoing studies of the solar wind, foreshock, bow shock, magnetopause, magnetotail, and ionosphere, with an emphasis on the observations made by the four Interball spacecraft. Readership: Researchers and graduate students of space physics and astrophysics.