Second ISSI Meeting on
Coordinated
Observations
of the Gravitational Focusing Cone of the Local Interstellar Medium at 1 AU
Circular
Eberhard
Möbius
Space Science Center and Department of Physics, University of New Hampshire
John Raymond, SOHO UVCS
George Gloeckler, ACE and Ulysses SWICS
Daniel Rucinski, (Maciej Bzowski), Modeling
(Darrell Judge), Don McMullin, SOHO CELIAS SEM
Rosine Lallement, (Jean-Loup Bertaux) EUV Absorption, SOHO SWAN, Modeling
(William Thompson), SOHO CDS
Manfred Witte, Ulysses GAS
Hans Fahr, Modeling
Sergei Chalov, Modeling
Reinald Kallenbach, Ruedi von Steiger, ISSI
Eberhard Möbius, Chair
Toshio Terasawa, M. Oka, University of Tokyo, Japan, GEOTAIL, NOSOMI
Hirotomo Noda (U. Graz)
______: Either confirmation
to me about attendance or with ISSI about accommodations
Additional participants
and/or consultants:
Vladimir Izmodenov, Modeling of interstellar flow (currently at ISSI)
Anuschka Pauluhn, SUMER calibration (currently at ISSI)
Lukas Saul, Pickup ions, modeling, (graduate student at UNH)
Stephen Fuselier, IMAGE LENA observations of interstellar gas
In the following I will present a tentative structure of our meeting and related plans. Because we are a small group the meeting is very flexible. Please feel free to send me any comments, criticisms additions etc. that you might have. We will start with short presentations to get everybody on the same page. Therefore the presentations should be updates that are important for everyone in the group. I am only providing some suggestions with my take on the titles. Of course, they may be completely biased by my narrow view. I expect that the program and sequence will develop as we go. Please let me know if you have any specific presentation in mind that is important for our work, but which I didn’t include yet. However, please bear in mind that this should be a working meeting with detailed on-site work and not a meeting just filled with presentations. We need to understand each other’s data and models though in order to get going. I would like to suggest that the presentations be made brief, mostly updates. Long discussions will be o.k. though!
For our detailed work we now have the main data sets and modeling programs available on site. Modeling programs will also be on several people’s laptops. For data that are available on the www, we have links from our ISSI web site. I have received several data sets that I shifted to the ISSI site. The files are all in a Directory called “ConeWorkshop_2001” with a brief description in the file “DataCompilation_2000.doc”. Here is the current status:
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He Density Models: Both Daniel and Rosine promised to have their
models on site. Meanwhile they have been compared and check out within a few %.
(an action item from last year’s meeting!)
I received an output from Daniel’s model for nion = 7.5 . 10-8 s-1 and nion = 1.5 . 10-7 s-1. The outputs are
on the ftp site as .doc and .txt files.
Please ignore the files: He_DR_results.doc/.txt. I can’t delete them. They were
the old ones with a bug. The other files: He_DR_results_Ion7.5e-8.doc/.txt and
_Ion1.5e-7.doc/.txt are correct.
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Pickup Ions: I have 31-day averages of
the ACE SWICS pickup ion distribution function, incremented by 1 day.
They are on the ftp site as ascii file.
George, we talked about having the
information as a function of V/Vsw, too. Then we could directly run
some comparison with Sergei Chalov’s model.
Toshio: Is it possible to get an
equivalent data set for the Nozomi data?
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Pickup Ion Models: Lukas received Sergei’s
code. We are trying to work this together with Daniel’s neutral gas model and
our integration over various instrument functions. We hope to have this
available at the workshop.
Sergei, we will have your code ready
to go on an ISSI machine. Lukas, this
is a task for you to move it over.
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EUV Lines (UVCS and EUVE): I do have a
set of calibrated absolute intensities with the viewing directions in GSE
coordinates and heliospheric (ecliptic) coordinates from SOHO UVCS.
The results for all observations along with viewing direction and location are
on the ftp site.
John V., do we get your values from
EUVE, too?
Toshio: He backscatter observations
with Nozomi will be covered during a presentation.
- Neutral Densities: We have a link to the Ulysses GAS sky maps. Manfred is working hard on the analysis of the Dec 2000 data.
- Solar EUV Monitor Data: Integral fluxes and fluxes in the 304 Å band as a function of time are available on the USC www site linked through the ISSI server. Don has also compiled fluxes of the Mg II proxy, which is available over an extended time.
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CDS Full Sun Scans: I have the latest
CDS data set.
A file with line widths, peak intensities and integral intensities integrated
over the solar disk is on the ftp site.
Don, have you tried a direct
comparison with the SEM data? I seem to remember you told me that you were in
contact will Bill Thompson.
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SUMER He I 584 line profiles: I received
plots (as ps files) and descriptions of the SUMER line profiles from Klaus
Wilhelm for Dec 4, 2000, and Jun 10, 1996.
They are on the ftp site.
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Ancillary Data: I will add links to the
ACE Level II data and the SOHO MTOF data for solar wind proton, alpha fluxes,
proton densities and speeds as a function of time.
We have received SW electron densities and temperatures from ACE SWEPAM from Ruth Skoug for Nov 98 – Jan 99.
This data set is on the ftp site as ascii file.
We are expecting also newer data and data from WIND through Charlie Farrugia.
- IMAGE LENA: Ruedi is adding a link to the LENA discussion site on the interstellar gas observations.
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Anything else? Have I forgotten important
information? Please let me know.
Rosine, maybe some discussion about
the current difference between He and H parameters, as observed inside the
heliosphere would be appropriate this time. Can you suggest a link for this
information?
We can add information to the site as we go, when we are at the meeting. So
people can effectively use all that information when back home again.
Structure of the meeting
Introductory presentations
Welcome, overview, logistics, plan for the week (Möbius, von Steiger)
– Where are we going with the workshop? (Möbius)
Diagnostics of the focusing cone close to the sun (2000) (Raymond)
Scan of the focusing cone in the anti-sunward direction (2000) (Vallerga)
He Pickup ion observations at 1 AU and from Ulysses (2000) (Gloeckler)
He pickup on
Geotail and the Nozomi Mars Probe (2000) (Noda et al.)
Overview
(Geotail/NOZOMI) H.
Noda
Dec
2000 cone crossing, He+ acceleration (Geotail) M.
Oka
Apr
2000 cone crossing, includ. UV obs. (Nozomi) H.
Noda
Preparation
of 2001 Aug cone crossing (NOZOMI) H.
Noda
Interstellar parameters from neutral gas measurements (2000) (Witte)
Determination of the photoionization rate for He (2000) (McMullin)
Modeling of the ionization of LISM He (Rucinski)
Spatial
and velocity distribution of He pickup ions in the cone region
– Related transport and acceleration
processes (Chalov)
Highlight of open questions (lead: Fahr, Izmodenov, Möbius)
General discussion of our approach, response by modelers, publication plans
Work on data and interpretation in WGs:
a) Remote sensing group (Lallement, Raymond, Vallerga + some modelers + 1 ISSI)
b) In-situ group (Gloeckler, Möbius, Witte, McMullin, Terasawa, Noda + some modelers + 1 ISSI)
Further presentations (according to schedule of presenters):
Tu PM: Modeling of UV backscattering (Lallement)
Thu: IMAGE LENA Observations of ISM
Neutrals (Fuselier)
Use plenary meetings as needed, but at least every morning and after lunch.
Presentation of WG results and open questions WGs
Discussion (all)
Plans for work at home, publication plans (all)
Friday
Executive Meeting (subgroup including Möbius, von Steiger, Kallenbach + others)