The Science Behind SURROUND: a Constellation of Cubesats Around the Sun
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2023-08
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Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Planetary, Solar and Heliospheric Radio Emissions
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One of the greatest challenge facing current space weather monitoring operations is forecasting the arrival of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and Solar Energetic Particles (SEPs) within their Earth-Sun propagation timescales. Current campaigns mainly rely on extreme ultra-violet and white light observations to create forecasts, missing out many potential events that may be hazardous to Earth’s infrastructure undetectable at these wavelengths. Here we introduce the SURROUND mission, a constellation of CubeSats each with identical radio spectrometers, and the results of the initial Phase-0 study for the concept. The main goal of SURROUND is to monitor and track solar radio bursts (SRBs), widely utilised as a useful diagnostic for space weather activity, and revolutionise current forecasting capabilities. The Phase-0 study concludes that SURROUND can achieve its mission objectives using 3 - 5 spacecraft using current technologies with feasible SEP and CME forecasting potential: a first for heliospheric monitors.Description
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solar physics, space weather prediction, space weather operations, triangulation
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Weigt, D, Cañizares, L A, Maloney, S A, Murray, S A, Carley, E P, Macario-Rojas, A, Crisp, N & McGrath, C 2023, The Science Behind SURROUND: a Constellation of Cubesats Around the Sun . in Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Planetary, Solar and Heliospheric Radio Emissions . Trinity College Dublin, International Workshop on Planetary, Solar and Heliospheric Radio Emissions, Dublin, Ireland, 26/09/2022 . https://doi.org/10.25546/104052