Engineering-Physics Space Plasma Seminar

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Meeting ID: 927 5142 0885
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"The Importance of Boundaries: Advancing space sciences through large-scale probing of Earth's magnetosphere"

Scale sizes of physics at Earth's magnetopause boundary span from a few kilometers to many Earth radii. Although recent missions such as NASA’s MMS have unlocked many secrets of micro-scale physics at this boundary, the meso-scale and system level understanding remain outside the field-of-view of current spacecraft constellations and imagers. This talk explores the use of soft X-ray (0.1 - 2keV) emissions from charge-exchange between solar wind ions and the neutral exosphere as a tool to drastically expand our experimental field-of-view. Currently several missions are in development to study these large-scale magnetopause dynamics using novel wide field-of-view soft X-ray imagers. This talk will provide a tour of this advancing technology and its use in developing projects such as the ESA SMILE mission and the NASA LEXI telescope traveling to the lunar surface.

Hosted by Professor Yi-Hsin Liu

About the Speaker(s)

Brian Walsh
Boston University

Contact

For more information, contact Tressena Manning at tressena.a.manning@dartmouth.edu or +1 (603) 646-2854.