ILWS Activities

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ILWS Activities in Hungary
K. Kecskemety KFKI RMKI Budapest, Hungary
ILWS Steering Committee and Working Group Meeting
Prague, June 1012, 2008
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ILWS science in Hungary
coordinating agency
Hungarian Space Office

• KFKI Research Inst. Particle and Nuclear Physics,
  Budapest
• solar energetic particles
• interaction of solar wind with magnetic and
  non-magnetic bodies (comets, etc.)
• KFKI Atomic Energy Inst., Budapest
• cometary plasma and dust
• space dosimetry

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• Heliophysical Observatory, Debrecen
• photoheliograph program, Ha measurements,
• solar effects on the troposphere
• Konkoly Observatory, Budapest
• coronal mass ejections, solar magnetic fields
• Eötvös University, Budapest
• magnetohydrodynamics of solar interior
• solar activity - crop yield relation
• Geodetic and Geophysical Institute, Sopron
• solar wind, interplanetary plasma clouds
• geomagnetic activity
• Eötvös Lorand Geophysical Institute, Budapest
• geomagnetic activity, Intermagnet

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Participation in space missions

• Presently in orbit
• SOHO COSTEP/LION low energy charged particles
• Cluster RAPID, Data Center, magnetometer
• Cassini MAG, CAPS charged particle spectrometer
• ISS Pille dosimeter, LET spectrometer
• STEREO IMPACT, SEPT low energy charged particles
  
• Rosetta RPC plasma package, Philae Romap
• magnetometer and plasma monitor
• Venus Express ASPERA, plasma and energetic atoms

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Future ILWS missions

• ISS Obstanovka plasma wave experiment
• BepiColombo
• PICAM ion mass spectrometer (on Mercury
• Planetary Orbiter)
• Solar Orbiter
• magnetic field measurement
• Cosmic Vision 2015 2025 proposals
• Cross-Scale (energetic particle detector)
• Jupiter-Ganymede Orbiter

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IHY related activities

• Participating institutions
• Debrecen Heliophysical ObservatoryEötvös
  Loránd Geophysical Institute Tihany
  ObservatoryEötvös University, Astronomy
  Department Eötvös University, Space Research
  Group
• Geodetic and Geophysical Institute Sopron
• KFKI RMKIKFKI Atomic Energy Research
  Institute, BudapestKonkoly Observatory
• Coordinated Investigation Programmes
• CIP 39 ULF waves in the magnetosphere
  (ELGI)
• CIP 61 Solar and heliospheric sources of
  energetic particles (KFKI RMKI)
• IHY Hungary website
• http//www.rmki.kfki.hu/kffo/IHY/index.htm

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Future meeting in Hungary

• IAGA 11th Scientific Assembly
• Sopron 23-30 August 2009
• http//www.iaga2009sopron.hu/