THE INTERNATIONAL HELIOPHYSICAL YEAR IHY IN RUSSIA

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THE INTERNATIONAL HELIOPHYSICAL YEAR (IHY) IN
RUSSIA
(An international scientific research program )
Vladimir N. Obridko1, Aleksander V. Stepanov2,
and Geliy A. Zherebtsov3 1Pushkov Institute of
Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere, and Radio Wave
Propagation, RAS 2Main Astronomical Observatory
in Pulkovo, RAS 3Institute of Solar-Terrestrial
Physics, SB RAS
Some instruments
Space missions
Total organization of the project
CORONAS-Photon Inclination 82.5, alitude 500
km, launch 2008 http//iaf.mephi.ru
  SPECTR-R Elliptic orbit, apogee 350 000 km,
launch 2008 http//www.iki.cosmos.ru   Microsatell
ite Universitetski-Tatyana Inclination 82o
,altitude 970 km, in flight   Glonass Inclination
65o , altitude 20 000 km, in flight   Meteor-M S
un-synchronous orbit, inclination 99o , apogee
1000 km Launch 2007   Electro-L Geostationary
orbit, launch 2007   COMPAS-2 Inclination 82o ,
altitude 600 km, in flight http//izmiran.ru   CAN
OPUS-VULKAN Inclination 82o , altitude 500 km,
launch 2008 http//izmiran.ru   Experiments on
International Space Station Plasma wave and
environment package Obstanovka (Launch 2008,
IKI, RAS http//www.iki.rssi.ru) Dosimeters
R-16 (In flight, SINP MSU http//www.sinp.msu.ru
) Photon-gamma (Launch 2007, IZMIRAN, RAS
http//www.izmiran.ru) Seismoprognoz-SM (Launch
2007, IZMIRAN, RAS http//www.izmiran.ru) Hydro
xyl (Launch 2007, IZMIRAN, RAS http//www.izmiran
.ru)
96 ground based telescopes and geophysical
instruments as well as more than 50 scientific
institutes and observatories are involved in IHY.
Location 10 time zones from Far East
(Ussuriysk, Kamchatka) to North Caucasus,
St-Petersburg, and Kaliningrad.Both ground based
observation programs, 8 solar-terrestrial space
missions and 5 experiments on International Space
Station will be realized in 2007. For details see
the site http//idg.chph.ras.ru/rus/sunearco/inde
x.html
Similar physical processes are evident in vastly
different environments
Science Goals

• 2007 is the minimum of solar activity, so there
  is little chance to observe very active events.
  Nevertheless minimum 2007 will give us some
  preferences
• More pronounced structure of large-scale magnetic
  field
• Best time for observations of solar polar
  regions, coronal holes, bright X-ray points
• If flares occur, there will be quite good
  conditions for flare observations because of few
  interference (masked) factors.
• The main subjects are as follows
• Large-scale magnetic field, Coronal holes
• Oscillations, Solar seismology
• Solar wind
• Cosmic rays
• Earth climate
• Heliobiology
• Sun and Earthquakes

Magnetic and ionospheric observations
International IHY Symposium will be held in
ZVENIGOROD an old Russian town in Moscow
Region November 5 - 10, 2007 The symposium will
focus on the following topics 1. Solar sources
of geoeffective disturbances. 2. Interplanetary
medium as an energy link between the Sun and
the Earth. 3. Magnetosphere, ionosphere and
atmosphere response to solar activity
events. 4. Climate, ecology and human
life. http//helios.izmiran.troitsk.ru/Solter/ihy2
007/index.html
Solar-Heliospheric observations
INTERMAGNET
Arctic magnetic stations
IHY Inauguration Ceremony February 19, 2007