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Aeronomy, Space Physics, and Astrophysics Program

Aeronomy and Astrophysics Program. Aeronomy, Space Physics, and Astrophysics Program. Vladimir Papitashvili Antarctic Sciences Section NSF/Office of Polar Programs. Antarctic Research. Research aimed at exploration of Antarctica Examples: Aerogeophysics and geology

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Aeronomy, Space Physics, and Astrophysics Program

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  1. Aeronomy and Astrophysics Program Aeronomy, Space Physics, and Astrophysics Program Vladimir Papitashvili Antarctic Sciences Section NSF/Office of Polar Programs

  2. Antarctic Research • Research aimed at exploration of Antarctica • Examples: • Aerogeophysics and geology • Sea-floor mapping • Long-term ecological research • Life sciences • Research on Antarctica’s role in global systems • Examples: • Ozone, greenhouse gases • Ocean circulation and sea level • Climate changes • Continental drift • 3. Research using Antarctica as a platform • Examples: • Seismic studies • Meteorite collection • Aeronomy and upper atmosphere • Space physics • Astronomy and astrophysics

  3. South Pole Station • Neutrino astrophysics and radio astronomy to test cosmological models • Space physics and upper atmospheric studies to forecast space weather • Ozone depletion, monitoring of UV radiation to test global warming • Atmospheric constituents and pollution • Palaeoclimatic records from snow and ice • Human behavioral studies • Global seismology U.S. Antarctic Program, New Investigators workshop

  4. Aeronomy, Space and Astrophysics Research • high, dry, cold atmosphere with negligible variability —almost space-like conditions • clarity of the continental ice for the largest neutrino telescope • polar vortex permits long duration balloon-borne experiments • geomagnetic focus of solar and cosmic particles and fields (aurora australis) • unique photochemistry creates the ozone hole U.S. Antarctic Program, New Investigators workshop

  5. AMANDA - Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array Neutrino telescopes look through the Earth to understand how Mother Nature can accelerate particles to very high energies (tera- and peta-electron volts) U.S. Antarctic Program, New Investigators workshop

  6. IceCube A new neutrino telescope of 1-km3 scale • To detect high-energy neutrinos from deep space • To probe new window into the Universe U.S. Antarctic Program, New Investigators workshop

  7. Radio Astronomy (Sub-MM and Infrared) – AST/RO, ACBAR, SPARO, SPIREX, DASI Temperature variations (µK)(inflationary model and data)

  8. Cosmic Microwave Background Research A new 10-m dish radio telescope – to test inflation of the Universe 45 m 16 m SPT– FY07 SPT– FY07

  9. NASA/NSF Long-Duration Balloons Program

  10. Sun –Earth Connections AURORA BOREALIS AND AURORA AUSTRALIS

  11. U.S. Automatic Geophysical Observatories Ozone HoleSeptember 2000 U.S. Antarctic Program, New Investigators workshop

  12. Antarctic Aeronomy, Space Physics & Astrophysics FundingFY01FY02FY03FY04 Aeronomy $0.6M $0.6M $1.2M $0.5M New Proposals0/2 0/2 4/0 3/2 Space Physics $1.8M $1.0M $1.7M $2.1M New Proposals5/04/13/012/5 Astrophysics $3.4M $7.9M $6.7M $7.3M New proposals3/44/23/67/3 Total $5.8M $9.5M $9.6M $9.9M Funded/Declined8/68/510/622/10 Proposals deadline is around June 1 of each year OPP also holds funds for cross-directorate programs: ITR ($1.5M) and MRI ($1.1M)

  13. Antarctic Aeronomy, Space Physics & Astrophysics – Budget Profile $M FY05 commitments: 75% of the base budget ($9.9M)

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