SoSpIM
A Spectral Solar Irradiance Monitor
on the JAXA Solar-C Space Mission
SoSpIM will observe solar irradiance on board the Japanese Space Agency’s spacecraft Solar-C beside the extreme UV telescope EUVST.
ROLE OF THE INSTITUTE FOR DATA SCIENCE
> Data pipeline
> Data analysis and interpretation
Project lead at I4DS: Prof. Dr. Säm Krucker
Partners: PMOD/WCR Davos (project lead, PI Louise Harra), ROB Belgium, ISSI/JAXA Japan
Funding: Swiss Prodex
Start: 2021
Launch: 2029
Keywords: space sciences, heliophysics, space weather
SUMMARY
The Sun emits hot plasma spreading throughout the solar system. This affects the Earth and other planets. The Solar-C space mission aims at studying how the high temperatures of the plasma are created in the solar corona. The spacecraft will carry two instruments working hand in hand: a spectroscope in the extreme ultraviolet range (EUVST) and a solar irradiance monitor (SoSpIM). SoSpIM will observe solar flares on the surface of the Sun and evaluate the impact of solar irradiance on the Earth’s upper atmosphere.
PEOPLE @I4DS WHO WORK ON SoSpIM
OPEN RESOURCES AND RESULTS
VISUALS AND AUDIO
Solar-C is a Japanese middle-class space mission observing the Sun in extreme UV from a low Earth orbit. Credit: NAOJ/JAXA (SOLAR-C WG)
Contact
Prof. Dr. André Csillaghy
Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW
Hochschule für Informatik
Institut für Data Science
Bahnhofstrasse 5
CH-5210 Windisch
andre.csillaghy (at) fhnw.ch
About this Website
The Astroinformatics and Heliophysics Group is an interdisciplinary research group at the FHNW School for Computer Science: data scientists, computer scientists, engineers, physicists in the domains of solar- and astrophysics and science communicators. We contribute to some of the big international space and astronomy endeavours by the European Space Agency ESA, their American counterpart NASA and other national and international partners. We are also interested in clever small and low-cost projects that allow studying the Universe with limited resources.