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Space Plasma Physics is one of the main lines of theoretical and experimental investigations performed at the Space Research Institute (IKI). All stars, including the Sun, the interstellar and interplanetary medium, planetary upper atmosphere (ionosphere) - in a word, roughly 99% of matter in the Galaxy is in the plasma state. The processes of the transformation of some types of energy into other, which constitute the essence of active phenomena on the Sun and in the close vicinity (magnetospheres) of the planets, including the Earth, are of plasma nature.
The tasks of some theoretical and experimental laboratories at the Institute is to construct models of planetary magnetosperes and to study individual physical phenomena specific for such complex and interlinked systems as solar wind - magnetosphere - ionosphere system.
Laboratories
- Theory of space plasma processes
- Acceleration processes in space plasma and radiation problems during space flights
- Near-planetary and interplanetary plasma
- Study of electromagnetic measurements
- Study of solar wind
- Physics of magnetosphere processes
- Engineering and technical support of project experiments and applied works
Missions and Experiments
Data
Data of Interball project.
- Interball-Tail Key Parameters
Description and WWW download service (including most recent data and orbits). A subset of these data is also available at CDAWeb site in NASA/GSFC.
- Interball-Auroral Key Parameters
Description and WWW download service. A subset of these data is also available at CDAWeb site in NASA/GSFC.
- IKI Satellite Situation Center
Interball & Interball-related orbital information. Graphical and ASCII data with Interball orbits, expected crossings of magnetospheric regions and conjunctions with other spacecraft and ground facilities.
- Entry to the open part of Interball FTP-archive (with auxiliary information). Not recommended unless you know what are you looking for.
- Interball publication lists for
1996-1997,
1998,
1999. Some references are in Russian.
- DD-system WWW interface. DD is a network system for storing, processing and plotting of any kind of scientific data. It includes selected Interball full-resolution field and particle data. Password is required (except description).
Space Weather service: ACE real time solar wind data and simple geomagnetic activity forecast.
Data of previous solar terrestrial missions:
Prognoz-7,-8,-9,-10,
Arcad, Active, Apex. Archive mostly containes copies of old 9-track IBM magnetic tapes.
WWW-sites of future and associated solar-terrestrial projects of IKI:
ROY (definition study),
Resonance (definition study),
SPRUT, etc.
Guide to russian ground observation facilities (magnetometers, etc).
Links to our partners' home pages:
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