Raab, W;
Branduardi-Raymont, G;
Wang, C;
Dai, L;
Donovan, E;
Enno, G;
Escoubet, PC;
... Zhang, A; + view all
(2016)
SMILE: A joint ESA/CAS mission to investigate the interaction between the solar wind and Earth's magnetosphere.
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Proceedings of Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray.
Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE): Edinburgh, UK.
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Abstract
The Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) is a collaborative science mission between ESA and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). SMILE is a novel self-standing mission to observe the coupling of the solar wind and Earth's magnetosphere via X-Ray imaging of the solar wind -- magnetosphere interaction zones, UV imaging of global auroral distributions and simultaneous in-situ solar wind, magnetosheath plasma and magnetic field measurements. The SMILE mission proposal was submitted by a consortium of European, Chinese and Canadian scientists following a joint call for mission by ESA and CAS. It was formally selected by ESA's Science Programme Committee (SPC) as an element of the ESA Science Program in November 2015, with the goal of a launch at the end of 2021. In order to achieve its scientific objectives, the SMILE payload will comprise four instruments: the Soft X-ray Imager (SXI), which will spectrally map the Earth's magnetopause, magnetosheath and magnetospheric cusps; the UltraViolet Imager (UVI), dedicated to imaging the auroral regions; the Light Ion Analyser (LIA) and the MAGnetometer (MAG), which will establish the solar wind properties simultaneously with the imaging instruments. We report on the status of the mission and payload developments and the findings of a design study carried out in parallel at the concurrent design facilities (CDF) of ESA and CAS in October/November 2015. © (2016) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | SMILE: A joint ESA/CAS mission to investigate the interaction between the solar wind and Earth's magnetosphere |
| Event: | Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1117/12.2231984 |
| Publisher version: | http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/proceedi... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2016 Society of Photo Optical Instrumentation Engineers. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic reproduction and distribution, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of the paper are prohibited. |
| Keywords: | SMILE, ESA, CAS, magnetosphere, solar wind, SXI, UVI, LIA, MAG |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Space and Climate Physics |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1537401 |
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