Slide1: SOLAR, TERRESTRIAL & SPACE PHYSICS IN AUSTRALIA
. Contact: Above people & Iver Cairns, (02) 9351 3961, email: i.cairns@physics.usyd.edu.au U. of Sydney: Theory & Heliosphere
Plasma, solar & space physics
Theory, simulations, & data-theory tests
Sun – solar wind – Earth – interstellar medium
Complexity, waves, radiation & acceleration
STEREO swaves instrument
Contact: i.cairns@physics.usyd.edu.au
RESEARCH & INSTRUMENTS
Solar activity: flares, CMEs, X-ray & radio
Space weather: Sun-Earth connections
Magnetosphere: substorms, currents, aurora
Ionosphere: radio reception, ionization changes
Neutral atmosphere: winds, coupling
Complex systems: connections, predictability
Space assets: FedSat, NASA & ESA spacecraft .. (STEREO spacecraft?)
Australia/NZ: IPS radio, TIGER and MF/VHF radars, magnetometers (Mileura Widefield Array?)
Antarctica: magnetometers, cosmic rays, auroral
imagers, digisondes
Strong connections to Plasma Physics & Astrophysics
U. Newcastle: Magnetosphere
Magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere coupling & TIGER radar
FedSat & ground magnetometer networks
ULF waves & radiation belt dynamics
Contact: brian.fraser@newcastle.edu.au Australian Antarctic Division
Magnetosphere-ionosphere - aurora
Digisondes, cosmic rays, magnetometers,
VLF receivers, auroral imagers
Infrastructure for external agencies
Contact: marc.duldig@aad.gov.au Ionospheric Prediction Service (IPS): Space Weather
Gather Australian & international datasets
& advise Govt & industry clients
Learmonth & Culgoora radio
Contact: David Cole / david@ips.gov.au U. Adelaide: Neutral Atmosphere
& Ionosphere
Neutral winds
Coupling to ionosphere & space
VHF & MF radar, airglow, photometers
Contact: robert.vincent@adelaide.edu.au LaTrobe U.: Ionosphere &
Magnetosphere Coupling
Activity, changes in plasma structures,
magnetic connectivity
TIGER radar, GPS, optical spectrometers
Contact: p.dyson@latrobe.edu.au FedSat – Australia’s
first science spacecraft Digisonde at Davis,
Antartica