STEREO Instruments
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Calibration and Modeling Algorithm Documents
Archived Instrument Documentation
Archived Instrument Software
The following four instrument packages are mounted on each of the two STEREO
spacecraft:
Comprised of four instruments: an extreme ultraviolet imager, two white-light coronagraphs and a
heliospheric imager. These instruments study the 3-D evolution of CME's from birth at the Sun's
surface through the corona and interplanetary medium to its eventual impact at Earth. Principal
Investigator: Dr. Brian Wood, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.
List of Institutions involved.
The following institutions are involved in the development of the SECCHI instruments on board the two STEREO spacecraft.
- Naval Research Laboratory
- NASA GSFC
- Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory (LMSAL)
- Max-Planck Institute fur Aeronomie (MPAe)
- Unversity of Kiel
- University of Birmingham
- Rutherford Appleton Labs (RAL)
- University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory
- Institut d'Optique Theoretique et Appliquee (IOTA)
- Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale (IAS)
- Certre Spatial de Liege (CSL)
- Boston College
- Space Test Program
- Swales Aerospace
- HYTEC Incorporated
- Silver Engineering, Inc. (SEI)
- Praxis, Inc.
- The Hammers Company
- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
- Royal Observatory of Belgium
- Observatoire de Paris
- Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale
- Computational Physics, Inc. (CPI)
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
- Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
- Stanford University Solar Observations Group
- University of Michigan
- Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)
- High Altitude Observatory
SWAVES is an interplanetary radio burst tracker that traces the generation
and evolution of traveling radio disturbances from the Sun to the orbit of
Earth. Principal Investigator Dr. Milan Maksimovic, Observatoire de Paris,
Lead U.S. Co-Investigator Dr. Stuart Bale, University of California Space
Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, and Co-Investigator Dr. Robert J. Macdowall,
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, lead the investigation.
List of Institutions involved.
The following institutions are involved in the development of the SWAVES instruments on board the two STEREO spacecraft.
- Observatoire de Paris
- University of Minnesota
- University of California, Berkeley
A suite of seven instruments that samples the 3-D distribution of solar wind plasma electrons, the characteristics of the solar energetic particle (SEP) ions and electrons, and the local vector magnetic field. Principal Investigator: Dr. Janet G. Luhmann, University of California, Berkeley.
List of Institutions involved.
The following institutions are involved in the development of the IMPACT instruments on board the two STEREO spacecraft.
- University of California, Berkeley - Space Sciences Laboratory
- NASA GSFC
- California Institute of Technology
- University of Maryland
- University of Kiel
- Centre d'Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements (CESR)
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Max Planck Institut fuer Aeronomie
- ESTEC-European Space Agency
- DESPA Observatoire de Paris-Meudon
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
- NOAA Space Environment Center
- University of Michigan
- KFKI-Hungarian Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physiscs
PLASTIC measures the properties of the bulk solar wind and provides plasma characteristics of protons, alpha particles and heavy ions. This experiment provides key diagnostic measurements of the form of mass and charge state composition of heavy ions and characterize the CME plasma from ambient coronal plasma. Principal Investigator: Dr. Antoinette Galvin, University of New Hampshire.
List of Institutions involved.
The following institutions are involved in the development of the PLASTIC instruments on board the two STEREO spacecraft.
- University of New Hampshire (UNH)
- University of Bern (UBe)
- Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial Physics (MPE)
- University of Kiel (UKiel)
- NASA GSFC
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