Some Links with Relevant Information

Via thw www you can get the actual view of the sun in all wavelength regions.

Links to some overview information sites:

• An easy to understand overview on Heliospheric Physics has been published recently as Heliospheric Learning Center in connection with the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) Program.
• A nice compilation on the Heliosphere is also found on a www site by Steve Suess.
• One of the last frontiers in the Heliosphere, the sun's corona and the origin of the solar wind, will be approached by the Solar Probe that is planned within NASA's new line of deep space probes.
• With measurements inside the heliosphere we also get access to information about the neighboring interstellar medium. Pickup ion measurements as depicted in an animation of the "Giant Swing" of the interstellar gas have led the way.

You can find NASA Space Science News and Space Weather related News Items from NASA websites as they pop up. A similar site exists for ESA.

Here are some News Items as they come along:

• A recent balloon borne observation tackles the question, whether cosmic rays from nearby supernovae can be identified.
• You find specific information on Space Weather conditions on various www sites of the NOAA Space Weather Center or on a SOHO sponsored www site.

You will find some links to instrument descriptions here.

Data:

Useful data for this class may be found in the following locations:

1. Solar Wind and IMF:
   • Solar Wind from the SOHO CELIAS MTOF/PM at the University of Maryland
   • Browse Data from the ACE Science Center . They contain among others also Solar Wind and IMF data.
     (Go to "Browse Data <DOY/2000 - Current"; click "Go". This leads you into the Data Browser)
   • Real Time Data from the WIND spacecraft
2. General Particle Data:
   • Data from the ACE spacecraft

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