The International Heliophysical Year in Hungary

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The International Heliophysical Year in Hungary
K. Kecskeméty KFKI Research Institute for
Particle and Nuclear Physics, Budapest, Hungary
Coordinated Investigation Programmes CIP 35 ULF
waves in the magnetosphere (ELGI Tihany
Observatory, G. Heilig) CIP Solar and
heliospheric sources of energetic particles
(submitted, KFKI RMKI, P. Király)
KFKI Research Institute for Particle and
Nuclear Physics, Budapest CIP on the solar and
heliospheric sources of suprathermal and
energetic particles near the solar activity
minimum in 2007 participation in the analysis of
energetic particle data of STEREO mission and
modeling solar energetic particle events Analysis
of Cassini magnetic field and charged particle
data measured in the plasma environment of Saturn
and Titan Venus Express Aspera, Rosetta RPC,
BepiColombo Serena
Past
IGY in Hungary
The Nagycenk Geophysical Observatory established
for the IGY in 1956-57
Investigation of ULF-VLF wave phenomena in
the upper terrestrial atmosphere using ground
based and satellite (DEMETER and Compass-2) data
Variation of derived medium characteristics in
the plasmasphere and in the mesosphere, their
statistical relation to temporal variation of the
solar activity using automatic event detection
procedures on narrow- and wide-band datasets
Eötvös University Space Research Group
IHY participating institutes
Participation in the plasma and dust impact
monitor measurements (ROMAP) for the Philae
lander of Rosetta to comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko,
due for Mars flyby on 25 February 2007.
KFKI Atomic Energy Research Inst., Budapest

• Debrecen Heliophysical Observatory
• Production and development of sunspot databases
  from observations made on the ground (Debrecen
  Photoheliographic Data) and by SOHO/MDI (SDD)
• H-alpha observations (solar flares)
• North-South asymmetries in the Sun and
  interplanetary space
• sunspot group evolution and penetration of the
  magnetic field into the solar corona
• study of the interaction of solar magnetic and
  velocity fields during the solar cycle

Eötvös Loránd Geophysical Inst., Tihany
Observatory study the dynamics of
plasmasphere in national and international
cooperation ELGI will create a Hungarian
website on Sun-Earth relations

• Public outreach
• Exhibitions
• Budapest Planetarium
• Urania observatory, Polaris observatory
• GEMMA Space Mission Simulator
• House of Future
• IGY Gold Program
• Open doors day

Sopron Geodetic and Geophysical
Institute ionospheric vertical sounding
whistler observations observation of Schumann
resonance frequencies recording atmospheric
electric potential gradient recording point
discharge currents recording 3 elements of
geomagnetic field
(INTERMAGNET)
Conferences, workshops Past seminar Ionosphere-Ma
gnetosphere Physics Seminar, Sopron, november
2006 Symposium 21 September, 2007,
Sopron Earth Electromagnetism Geophysical
Symposium on the occasion of fifty-year
anniversary of the Nagycenk Observatory.
Eötvös University Budapest, Astronomy
Dept. solar studies within the framework of
SOLAIRE (SOLar And Interplanetary REsearch), a
complex, multidisciplinary study of the magnetic
coupling of the solar atmosphere and its effects
on interplanetary space and Earth study of
turbulent effects on magnetic reconnection theoret
ical study of the subsurface dynamics of magnetic
flux tubes, with a view to provide lower boundary
conditions for atmospheric models
Konkoly Observatory Budapest upper atmosphere of
planets (Earth, Mars) correction of the
atmospheric models thermal metastabilities in
the solar core comets, asteroids observation and
modeling
WEBSITE http//www.rmki.kfki.hu/kffo/IHY
IHY Inauguration Ceremony February 19, 2007