HR: 16:20h
AN: SH34A-01    [Abstracts]
TI: Early Solar Wind Observations from the Plasma and Suprathermal Ion Composition (PLASTIC) Experiments on STEREO
AU: * Galvin, A B
EM: toni.galvin@unh.edu
AF: Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire, EOS SSC Morse Hall, Durham, NH 03824, United States
AU: Kistler, L A
AF: Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire, EOS SSC Morse Hall, Durham, NH 03824, United States
AU: Popecki, M A
AF: Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire, EOS SSC Morse Hall, Durham, NH 03824, United States
AU: Farrugia, C
AF: Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire, EOS SSC Morse Hall, Durham, NH 03824, United States
AU: Moebius, E
AF: Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire, EOS SSC Morse Hall, Durham, NH 03824, United States
AU: Lee, M
AF: Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire, EOS SSC Morse Hall, Durham, NH 03824, United States
AU: Ellis, L
AF: Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire, EOS SSC Morse Hall, Durham, NH 03824, United States
AU: Simunac, K
AF: Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire, EOS SSC Morse Hall, Durham, NH 03824, United States
AU: Singer, K
AF: Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire, EOS SSC Morse Hall, Durham, NH 03824, United States
AU: Russell, C
AF: Institute of Geophysics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States
AU: Walker, C
AF: Physikalisches Institut, University of Bern, Berne, Switzerland
AU: Walker, C
AF: Mount Holyoke College, 3030 Blanchard Student Center, South Hadley, MA 01075, United States
AU: Blush, L
AF: Physikalisches Institut, University of Bern, Berne, Switzerland
AU: Klecker, B
AF: Max-Planck Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik, P.O. Box 1312, Garching, D 85741, Germany
AU: Wimmer-Schweingruber, R F
AF: Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics, University of Kiel, Kiel, D-24098, Germany
AU: Thompson, B
AF: NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, United States
AU: Bochsler, P
AF: Physikalisches Institut, University of Bern, Berne, Switzerland
AU: Wurz, P
AF: Physikalisches Institut, University of Bern, Berne, Switzerland
AU: Daoudi, H
AF: Physikalisches Institut, University of Bern, Berne, Switzerland
AU: Giammanco, C
AF: Physikalisches Institut, University of Bern, Berne, Switzerland
AU: Karrer, R
AF: Physikalisches Institut, University of Bern, Berne, Switzerland
AU: Opitz, A
AF: Physikalisches Institut, University of Bern, Berne, Switzerland
AU: Koeten, M
AF: Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics, University of Kiel, Kiel, D-24098, Germany
AU: Luhmann, J
AF: Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
AU: Howard, R
AF: Solar Physics Branch, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC , United States
AU: Wuelser, J P
AF: Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, 3251 Hanover St., Org. ADBS, Bldg. 252, Palo Alto, CA 94304, United States
AU: Acuna, M
AF: NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, United States
AB: Two identical Plasma and Suprathermal Ion Composition (PLASTIC) instruments are now flying on the STEREO A and B observatories, which launched in October 2006. The STEREO observatories are drifting away from the Earth and from each other, providing different longitudinal perspectives. PLASTIC together with the IMPACT suite provides the in-situ measurements for the STEREO mission, while SECCHI provides remote imaging of the solar corona. The PLASTIC solar wind sector measures solar wind proton bulk parameters and provides species identification and relative abundances for the more dominant solar wind minor (Z>2) ions. During this early part of the STEREO mission, as we approach solar minimum conditions, there have been a series of coronal- hole associated high speed streams and interstream sector boundaries. In this talk we will provide initial observations of the solar wind during selected time periods.
DE: 2102 Corotating streams
DE: 2111 Ejecta, driver gases, and magnetic clouds
DE: 2164 Solar wind plasma
DE: 2169 Solar wind sources
SC: SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics [SH]
MN: 2007 Joint Assembly