Branduardi Raymont, Graziella;
Wang, Chi;
(2022)
The SMILE mission.
In: Bambi, Cosimo and Santagelo, Andrea, (eds.)
Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-ray Astrophysics.
(pp. 1-22).
Springer Nature: Singapore.
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Abstract
This chapter describes the SMILE (Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer) mission, currently under development as a joint project of the European Space Agency and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. SMILE aims to study the solar wind coupling with the terrestrial magnetosphere in a very novel and global way, by imaging the Earth’s magnetosheath and cusps in X-rays emitted when high charge-state solar wind ions exchange charges with exospheric neutrals. SMILE combines this with simultaneous UV imaging of the northern aurora and in situ plasma and magnetic field measurements of the magnetosheath and solar wind while flying in a highly elliptical northern polar orbit. In this chapter, after a brief introduction to the science that SMILE is targeted to investigate, the payload and the spacecraft, and progress in their development, are described. The mission operations in space, the ground segment, and the scientific preparations that will ensure the optimal exploitation of SMILE measurements are also presented. The international space plasma and planetary communities are looking forward to the step change that SMILE will provide by making visible our invisible terrestrial magnetosphere.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | The SMILE mission |
| ISBN-13: | 978-981-16-4544-0 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-981-16-4544-0 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4544-0 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Earth’s magnetosphere, Solar wind, Charge exchange X-rays, Imaging, In situ measurements |
| 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/10165338 |
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