Just thought I'd post an update. Our paper is now out on line in the space science reviews! It's a great paper and well worth a read... I may be biased but I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's possibly the best paper you'll read this year.
Enjoy,
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Monday, March 25, 2013
Reminder: First BARREL Science telecon today!
Our first Science telecon is today at 3:00 EST. As this is our first meeting, we hope to introduce all the grad students working on this data. We want to make sure that we give them preference as this campaign will hopefully help them graduate. Then there will be a quick overview of the mission and the types of events that were seen. We'll also have a quick look at what can all be found on the wiki and my suggestions for the time periods which seem to have the most interest from the community.
We hope to see you all there. If you haven't received an e-mail about this meeting yet and would like to attend, please e-mail myself (Alexa) or Robyn.
Thanks,
We hope to see you all there. If you haven't received an e-mail about this meeting yet and would like to attend, please e-mail myself (Alexa) or Robyn.
Thanks,
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
The start of the science telecoms!
After a bit of a well deserved break, we're ready to start back into the thick of it. We've already got most of 5 payloads built for next years campaign. Only another 15 to go! We've debriefed from this campaign. Life has almost returned back to normal, and now (at least for a data person) the fun really gets to begin!
Monday March 25th at 3:00 EST will be our first science telecom with the Van Allen teams. All are welcome. We've had some participants throughout the campaign from THEMIS, ground magnetometers, ground radars, modellers, and most recently Cluster. If you aren't already on the e-mail list and would like to be please contact either myself (Alexa), Robyn, or another person on the team. If you are thinking that you may want to join in for next campaign but don't have much to contribute from this years, I might suggest joining in from time to time just to learn about what type of data we have and what we might want to be looking for.
First week of June we also hope to have a science working group meeting which should be a lot of fun! It will be held in sunny Minneapolis. One of my favourite cities in the world. If you are interesting in attending please contact Robyn.
Have a great day!
Monday March 25th at 3:00 EST will be our first science telecom with the Van Allen teams. All are welcome. We've had some participants throughout the campaign from THEMIS, ground magnetometers, ground radars, modellers, and most recently Cluster. If you aren't already on the e-mail list and would like to be please contact either myself (Alexa), Robyn, or another person on the team. If you are thinking that you may want to join in for next campaign but don't have much to contribute from this years, I might suggest joining in from time to time just to learn about what type of data we have and what we might want to be looking for.
First week of June we also hope to have a science working group meeting which should be a lot of fun! It will be held in sunny Minneapolis. One of my favourite cities in the world. If you are interesting in attending please contact Robyn.
Have a great day!
Friday, February 15, 2013
Flyby of an astroid
Today there is a record setting flyby of an astroid! Enjoy this podcast about it! Not really about BARREL, but still really cool!
The meteor which exploded over Russia was not related to this fly by. This really may be the year of the astroids!
The meteor which exploded over Russia was not related to this fly by. This really may be the year of the astroids!
Daily e-mail Feb. 15 2013
Good afternoon,
There were another two CMEs from the western limb, but as they were off the visible side it is yet unclear if they are Earth-directed. Hopefully we'll know more tomorrow.
Payloads up:
SANAE IV: 1T
Halley 6: 1I,
Payloads coming down:
1A was cut down on Feb. 14 at 0232 UT. Conjunctions:
Feb 9 2013
Sat. A 0430 UT - 1100 UT
Sat. B 0730 UT - 1350 UT
Feb 8 2013
Sat. A 0200 UT - 0800 UT
Sat. B 0600 UT - 1100 UT
Feb 5 2013
Sat. A 0130 UT - 0845 UT
Sat. B 0355 UT - 1130 UT
Feb 4 2013
Sat. B 0045 UT - 0810 UT
Feb 3-4 2013
Sat. A 2220 UT on February 3rd to 0545 on February 4th
Sat. A 0420 UT - 1200 UT
Sat. B 0640 UT - 1420 UT
Jan 30 2013-partially cancelled
Sat. A 0140 UT - 0555 UT
Sat. B 0335 UT - 1050 UT
Sat. A 0735 UT - 1515 UT
Sat. B 0025 UT - 0740 UT
Sat. B 0915 UT - 1650 UT
Jan 28-29 2013
Sat. A 2250 UT Jan 28 - 0605 UT Jan 29
Jan 28 2013
Sat. A 0450 UT - 1210 UT
Sat. B 0625 UT - 1345 UT
Jan 27 2013
Sat. A 0220 UT - 0910 UT
Sat. A 1114 UT - 1815 UT
Sat. B 0330 UT - 1020 UT
Sat. B 1215 UT - 1940 UT
Halley Bay :
Hasn't updated yet.
GOES Electron Flux:
Have continued to be at normal to moderate levels and are expected to be the same for the next three days.
GOES Proton Flux:
Has stayed at background levels for the lat 24 hours and is expected to be the same over the next three days
Solar wind speed is 337.9 km/s
Solar proton density 2.0 cm^(-3)
25 sunspots are now visible. NOAA has the likelihood of a M class flare at 1% (The lowest it's reached during the campaign) and a 1% chance of an X class flare.
Kp is quiet kp = 1 with a 24 max of kp = 1
Bz = 1.3 nT south
Btotal = 3.9 nT
There are currently no large coronal holes.
From Kyoto:
AE: some small blips of activity
Dst: We have long recovered from yesterday's storm and it is now quiet again.
Have a great day,
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Daily e-mail Feb 14th 2013
Good Morning
NO TELECON TODAY - As we are starting to wind down we have decided that we no longer need daily telecons but instead will switch to weekly telecons. Unless there is any argument against this time, the weekly telecons will be on Thursdays at 10am PST starting next Thursday.
Early this morning the magnetosphere and solar wind proved they didn't need a solar storm to cause some geomagnetic activity. We finally had a period of sustained southward Bz and thus we got a storm. It was a small storm, but then again the SW never reached much more than 400 km/s, B_tot stayed below 15 nT, and the density was for the most part below 10 cm^-3. Even B_z was often above -5 nT. Kp reached a high of 4 and the Dst dipped to -47 nT making this the second largest storm during the BARREL 2013 campaign. All without the help of a coronal hole or CME. I think this was the magnetosphere and SW's valentine to us.
Payloads up:
SANAE IV: 1T
Halley 6: 1I,
Payloads coming down:
1A was cut down on Feb. 14 at 0232 UT. Conjunctions:
Feb 9 2013
Sat. A 0430 UT - 1100 UT
Sat. B 0730 UT - 1350 UT
Feb 8 2013
Sat. A 0200 UT - 0800 UT
Sat. B 0600 UT - 1100 UT
Feb 5 2013
Sat. A 0130 UT - 0845 UT
Sat. B 0355 UT - 1130 UT
Feb 4 2013
Sat. B 0045 UT - 0810 UT
Feb 3-4 2013
Sat. A 2220 UT on February 3rd to 0545 on February 4th
Sat. A 0420 UT - 1200 UT
Sat. B 0640 UT - 1420 UT
Jan 30 2013-partially cancelled
Sat. A 0140 UT - 0555 UT
Sat. B 0335 UT - 1050 UT
Sat. A 0735 UT - 1515 UT
Sat. B 0025 UT - 0740 UT
Sat. B 0915 UT - 1650 UT
Jan 28-29 2013
Sat. A 2250 UT Jan 28 - 0605 UT Jan 29
Jan 28 2013
Sat. A 0450 UT - 1210 UT
Sat. B 0625 UT - 1345 UT
Jan 27 2013
Sat. A 0220 UT - 0910 UT
Sat. A 1114 UT - 1815 UT
Sat. B 0330 UT - 1020 UT
Sat. B 1215 UT - 1940 UT
Halley Bay :
Hasn't updated yet.
GOES Electron Flux:
Have continued to be at normal to moderate levels and are expected to be the same for the next three days.
GOES Proton Flux:
Has stayed at background levels for the lat 24 hours and is expected to be the same over the next three days
Solar wind speed is 397.8 km/s
Solar proton density 2.0 cm^(-3)
26 sunspots are now visible. NOAA has the likelihood of a M class flare at 5% and a 1% chance of an X class flare.
Kp is quiet kp = 3 with a 24 max of kp = 4
Bz = 2.3 nT south
Btotal = 3.5 nT
There are currently no large coronal holes.
From Kyoto:
AE: Lots of activity! AE has yet to reach 1000 nT, but it has come pretty close.
Dst: A Storm! Dst reached a min of -47 nT
Have a great day,
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Daily e-mail Feb. 13th 2013
Good Morning
There were two CME's today, but no word yet if they will be geo effective. They originated in the South West region of the Sun, which give us a better than average chance. Fingers crossed! That said, space weather.com is saying that it's not going to hit us.
Payloads up:
SANAE IV: 1T
Halley 6: 1I, 1A
Payloads coming down:
nothing to reportConjunctions:
Feb 9 2013
Sat. A 0430 UT - 1100 UT
Sat. B 0730 UT - 1350 UT
Feb 8 2013
Sat. A 0200 UT - 0800 UT
Sat. B 0600 UT - 1100 UT
Feb 5 2013
Sat. A 0130 UT - 0845 UT
Sat. B 0355 UT - 1130 UT
Feb 4 2013
Sat. B 0045 UT - 0810 UT
Feb 3-4 2013
Sat. A 2220 UT on February 3rd to 0545 on February 4th
Sat. A 0420 UT - 1200 UT
Sat. B 0640 UT - 1420 UT
Jan 30 2013-partially cancelled
Sat. A 0140 UT - 0555 UT
Sat. B 0335 UT - 1050 UT
Sat. A 0735 UT - 1515 UT
Sat. B 0025 UT - 0740 UT
Sat. B 0915 UT - 1650 UT
Jan 28-29 2013
Sat. A 2250 UT Jan 28 - 0605 UT Jan 29
Jan 28 2013
Sat. A 0450 UT - 1210 UT
Sat. B 0625 UT - 1345 UT
Jan 27 2013
Sat. A 0220 UT - 0910 UT
Sat. A 1114 UT - 1815 UT
Sat. B 0330 UT - 1020 UT
Sat. B 1215 UT - 1940 UT
Halley Bay :
very quiet
GOES Electron Flux:
Have continued to be at normal to moderate levels and are expected to be the same for the next three days.
GOES Proton Flux:
Has stayed at background levels for the lat 24 hours and is expected to be the same over the next three days
Solar wind speed is 344.0 km/s
Solar proton density 4.4 cm^(-3)
55 sunspots are now visible. NOAA has the likelihood of a M class flare at 5% and a 1% chance of an X class flare.
Kp is quiet kp = 1 with a 24 max of kp = 2
Bz = 1.7 nT north
Btotal = 6.3 nT
There are currently no large coronal holes.
From Kyoto:
AE: small amounts of activity
Dst: quiet.
Have a great day,
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