HR: 15:25h
AN: SH23A-08    [Abstracts]
TI: HERSCHEL Suborbital Program: 3-D Applications for the STEREO Mission
AU: * Moses, J D
EM: dan.moses@nrl.navy.mil
AF: Naval Research Laboratory, 4555 Overlook Dr., Washington, DC 20375 United States
AU: Newmark, J
EM: newmark@nrl.navy.mil
AF: Naval Research Laboratory, 4555 Overlook Dr., Washington, DC 20375 United States
AU: McMullin, D
EM: mcmullind@pxi.com
AF: Naval Research Laboratory, 4555 Overlook Dr., Washington, DC 20375 United States
AU: McMullin, D
EM: mcmullind@pxi.com
AF: Praxis Inc., 2550 Huntington Ave., Alxeandria, VA 22303 United States
AU: Antonucci, E
AF: Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, INAF, Str. Osservatorio 20, Pino Torinese, I, 10025 Italy
AU: Fineschi, S
AF: Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, INAF, Str. Osservatorio 20, Pino Torinese, I, 10025 Italy
AU: Gardiol, D
AF: Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, INAF, Str. Osservatorio 20, Pino Torinese, I, 10025 Italy
AU: Zangrilli, L
AF: Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, INAF, Str. Osservatorio 20, Pino Torinese, I, 10025 Italy
AU: Romoli, M
AF: Dip. di Astronomia e Scienza dello Spazio - Univ di Firenze, Largo Enrico Fermi 5, Firenze, 50125 Italy
AU: Pace, E
AF: Dip. di Astronomia e Scienza dello Spazio - Univ di Firenze, Largo Enrico Fermi 5, Firenze, 50125 Italy
AU: Gori, l
AF: Dip. di Astronomia e Scienza dello Spazio - Univ di Firenze, Largo Enrico Fermi 5, Firenze, 50125 Italy
AU: Landini, F
AF: Dip. di Astronomia e Scienza dello Spazio - Univ di Firenze, Largo Enrico Fermi 5, Firenze, 50125 Italy
AU: Gherardi, A
AF: Dip. di Astronomia e Scienza dello Spazio - Univ di Firenze, Largo Enrico Fermi 5, Firenze, 50125 Italy
AU: da Deppo, V
AF: Dip. di Elettronica e Informatica - Univ. di Padova, Via Gradenigo 6/B, Padova, 35131 Italy
AU: Naletto, G
AF: Dip. di Elettronica e Informatica - Univ. di Padova, Via Gradenigo 6/B, Padova, 35131 Italy
AU: Nicolosi, P
AF: Dip. di Elettronica e Informatica - Univ. di Padova, Via Gradenigo 6/B, Padova, 35131 Italy
AU: Pelizzo, M
AF: Dip. di Elettronica e Informatica - Univ. di Padova, Via Gradenigo 6/B, Padova, 35131 Italy
AU: Malvezzi, M
AF: Dip. di Elettronica - Univ. di Pavia INFM, Via Ferrata 1, PAVIA, I, 27100 Italy
AU: Auchere, F
AF: Institut d'Astrophysque Spatiale, Univ. Paris XI, Batt. 121, Orsay, 91405 France
AU: Delaboudiniere, J
AF: Institut d'Astrophysque Spatiale, Univ. Paris XI, Batt. 121, Orsay, 91405 France
AU: Howard, R
AF: Naval Research Laboratory, 4555 Overlook Dr., Washington, DC 20375 United States
AB: The HERSCHEL (HElium Resonance Scatter in the Corona and HELiosphere) Suborbital Program is an international collaborative program between a consortium of Italian Universities & Observatories led by Dr. E. Antonucci (and funded by the Italian Space Agency, ASI), the French IAS (funded in part by CNES) and the Solar Physics Branch of NRL (by NASA SEC and the Office of Naval Research). HERSCHEL will: investigate the slow and fast solar wind, determine the helium distribution and abundance in the corona, and test solar wind acceleration models; by obtaining simultaneous observations of the electron, proton and helium solar coronae. HERSCHEL will also establish proof-of-principle for the Ultra-Violet Coronagraph, which is in the ESA Solar Orbiter Mission baseline. The HERSCHEL launch date has been linked to the STEREO launch date to allow coordinated science between the two missions. One aspect of this scientific coordination is establishing the 3-D structure of the inner corona. HERSCHEL provides a third viewpoint for the inner corona covered by the A&B STEREO SECCHI COR-1. HERSCHEL is the only scheduled, space-based asset that could provide this third viewpoint for the critical inner corona viewed by STEREO COR-1 (although lower resolution, ground-based cononagraphs will make a contribution). A third viewpoint dramatically increases one's ability to establish the 3-D structure of an optically thin object (e.g. the metric in Fig. 7 of Davila 1994, ApJ 423, 871). HERSCHEL will provide at least a snapshot of that viewpoint, plus a wide range of additional information on the H and He composition of the inner corona.
DE: 7509 Corona
DE: 7594 Instruments and techniques
DE: 2169 Sources of the solar wind
SC: SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics [SH]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting