Overview
- Presents of energetic particle data from near Earth to beyond the heliosphere into the interstellar medium
- Shows that the proton energy spectrum in the heliosphere is such that a significant dose would be experienced by astronauts going to Mars
- Provides evidence of at least three separate acceleration mechanisms for energetic particles and shows that significant acceleration is taking place around the termination shock to produce the anomalous cosmic rays
- Explains that measurement of the energy spectrum and anisotropy of energetic particles is crucial for understanding how the particles are accelerated and transported within the heliosphere
Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library (ASSL, volume 438)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About the author
George Simnett obtained his Ph D from Imperial College, London in 1966, having started there in 1961.
This was the dawn of the space age. In 1967 he moved to Goddard Space Flight Center where he worked on the energetic particle data from IMP-4 and IMP=5. In 1969 he went as Assistant Professor to the University of California, Riverside, where he was project manager on an instrument to detect energetic solar neutrons using the UCR balloon-borne detector. In 1975, now based at the University of Birmingham, UK, he collaborated with Professor de Jager (PI), Utrecht, to build the Hard X-ray Imaging Spectrometer for NASA's Solar Maximum Mission, which was launched in 1980. In 1977 he joined the team led by Dr Lanzerotti (PI) to propose a particle instrument for the International Solar Polar Mission (later renamed Ulysses, launched 1990) which was to be the first (and so far only) spacecraft to go virtually over the solar poles, via Jupiter.
In 1989 he collaborated with Dr Brueckner (PI) on the LASCO suite of coronagraphs which are on the SOHO spacecraft, launched in 1995 and still operating at the inner Lagrangian point. More recently he has led the University of Birmingham team in their involvement in the EUV Imaging Spectrometer on the Japanese Hinode spacecraft (formerly Solar-B launched in 2006; the Solar Mass Ejection Imager (SMEI) on the US Navy Coriolis spacecraft, which was operational in a polar orbit from 2003-2011; and the Sun-Earth Connection Coronal Heliospheric Investigation (SECCHI) on NASA's STEREO mission, launched 2006.
He has over 200 publications in refereed journals and he is currently Emeritus Professor, University of Birmingham.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Energetic Particles in the Heliosphere
Authors: George M. Simnett
Series Title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43495-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-43493-3Published: 15 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82839-8Published: 04 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-43495-7Published: 01 December 2016
Series ISSN: 0067-0057
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7985
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 241
Number of Illustrations: 107 b/w illustrations, 83 illustrations in colour
Topics: Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics), Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Particle and Nuclear Physics