WS3 - Science with Aditya L1 mission

Title of workshop: Science with Aditya L1 mission
Organizers: Dipankar Banerjee (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore) Email: dipu@iiap.res.in
and Durgesh Tripathi (IUCAA,Pune) Email: durgesh@iucaa.in
Rationale: Aditya-I is India's first dedicated scientific mission to study the sun. The Aditya-1 mission was conceived as a 400kg class satellite carrying one payload, the Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC) and was planned to launch in a 800 km low earth orbit. A Satellite placed in the halo orbit around the Lagrangian point 1 (L1) of the Sun-Earth system has the major advantage of continuously viewing the Sun without any occultation/ eclipses. Therefore, the Aditya-1 mission has now been revised to “Aditya-L1 mission” and will be inserted in a halo orbit around the L1, which is 1.5 million km from the Earth. The satellite carries additional six payloads with enhanced science scope and objectives. 

The project is approved and the satellite will be launched during 2019 – 2020 timeframe by PSLV-XL from Sriharikota. A combination of imaging and spectroscopy in Multi-wavelength will enhance our understanding of the solar atmosphere. Modeling of the three-dimensional structure of the solar corona requires an accurate empirical description of the coronal plasma parameters (densities, temperatures, and velocities) for the coronal plasma. The spectroscopic instruments on board Aditya will enable us to measure these plasma parameters for a diagnostics of the corona and the solar wind. The mission will provide vital data for space weather studies.

Program schedule and the speakers Date: 6 March 2017, Venue: Hall C

TimeSpeakersTitle of the Talk

Session 1- 9:30 - 11:00 (Chair: Arnab Rai Choudhuri) 

09:30 - 09:45- S. SeethaOverview on Aditya Mission
09:45 – 10:10- Dipankar Banerjee- VELC and its science objectives
10:10 – 10:35- Durgesh Tripathi- SUIT and its science objectives
10:35 – 11:00- K. Sankarsubramnaian- SOLEX and its science objectives

Tea break 11:00 - 11:30

Session 2- 11:30 - 13:10

11:30 – 11:55- Bhuwan JoshiHEL1OS and its science objectives
11.55 – 12:20- Sathish Thampi- Papa and its science objectives
12.20 – 12:45- Santosh Vadawale- ASPEX and its science objectives
12:45 – 13:10-K. Subhalakshmi -- Magnetometer and its science objectives

Lunch break 13:10 - 14:30 

Session 3- 14:30 - 16.00 (Chair: Durgesh Tripathi)

14:30 - 15.00- Vaibhav Pant/ K. Amareswari- Auto Detection of CMEs and eruptive Science with VELC
15:00 - 15.30- Tanmoy Samanta/ K. Sankar Subramanian- Multi Slit Spectroscopy and Spectropolarimetry with VELC
15:30 – 15:50- P. Sreejith- Science with SUIT
15:50 – 16:10- Abhishek SrivastavaOn Exploring the Heating Candidates in the Solar Chromosphere and Corona : A science prospective in the frame-work of SUIT

Tea break 16:10 - 16:30 

Session 4- 16:30 - 18.00 (Chair: Dipankar Banerjee)

16:30 - 16.50- Vipin Yadav- - Science with Papa
16:50 - 17.10- Aveek Sarkar- Science with ASPEX
17:10 – 17:30- Mahendra Verma- Dynamo & corona heating ideas from Aditya Mission
17:30 - 18:00Moderated by S. SeethaGroup Discussion and closing remarks

End of Workshop

Morning session will be dedicated to the science objectives of the individual payloads. Different payload team will present their payload details and the current status of development.

Afternoon session will focus on payload operation, different modes of observations and synergy between different payloads for co-ordinated observing campaign will be discussed.
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We will be able to accommodate 70 participants. Students and postdocs are encouraged to attend the workshop.