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The United Nations Basic Space Science Initiative for IHY 2007

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2006

Nat Gopalswamy ,
Joseph Davila ,
Barbara Thompson  and
Hans Haubold
Nat Gopalswamy
Affiliation:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20878, USA email: gopals@ssedmail.gsfc.nasa.gov
Joseph Davila
Affiliation:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20878, USA email: gopals@ssedmail.gsfc.nasa.gov
Barbara Thompson
Affiliation:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20878, USA email: gopals@ssedmail.gsfc.nasa.gov
Hans Haubold
Affiliation:
United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs, Vienna, Austria
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Abstract

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The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs and the International Heliophysical Year (IHY) community have joined hands to deploy arrays of small, inexpensive instruments such as magnetometers, radio telescopes, GPS receivers, all-sky cameras, and particle detectors around the world to provide global measurements of ionospheric, magnetospheric and heliospheric phenomena. The small instrument programme is envisioned as a partnership between instrument providers, and instrument hosts in developing countries as one of United Nations Basic Space Science (UNBSS) activity. The lead scientist will provide the instruments (or fabrication plans for instruments) in the array; the host country will provide manpower, facilities, and operational support to obtain data with the instrument, located typically at a local university. This paper provides an overview of the IHY/UNBSS programme, its achievements and future plans.

Keywords

Sun: atmosphereSun: coronal mass ejections (CMEs)solar-terrestrial relationsinterplanetary mediumsolar windsolar system: generalacceleration of particlesplasmasshock wavesmagnetic field
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 2 , Special Session SPS5: Astronomy for the developing world , August 2006 , pp. 295 - 302
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2007

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