The Science Behind SURROUND: a Constellation of Cubesats Around the Sun

Dale Weigt; L. A. Cañizares; S. A. Maloney; S. A. Murray; E. P. Carley; Alejandro Macario-Rojas; N. Crisp; C. McGrath

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The Science Behind SURROUND: a Constellation of Cubesats Around the Sun

Dale Weigt, L. A. Cañizares, S. A. Maloney, S. A. Murray, E. P. Carley, Alejandro Macario-Rojas, N. Crisp, C. McGrath

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One of the greatest challenge facing current space weather monitoring operations is forecasting the arrival of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and Solar Energetic Particles (SEPs) within their Earth-Sun propagation timescales. Current campaigns mainly rely on extreme ultra-violet and white light observations to create forecasts, missing out many potential events that may be hazardous to Earth’s infrastructure undetectable at these wavelengths. Here we introduce the SURROUND mission, a constellation of CubeSats each with identical radio spectrometers, and the results of the initial Phase-0 study for the concept. The main goal of SURROUND is to monitor and track solar radio bursts (SRBs), widely utilised as a useful diagnostic for space weather activity, and revolutionise current forecasting capabilities. The Phase-0 study concludes that SURROUND can achieve its mission objectives using 3 - 5 spacecraft using current technologies with feasible SEP and CME forecasting potential: a first for heliospheric monitors.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Planetary, Solar and Heliospheric Radio Emissions
Publisher	Trinity College Dublin
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-85500-274-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.25546/104052
Publication status	Published - Aug 2023
MoE publication type	A4 Conference publication
Event	International Workshop on Planetary, Solar and Heliospheric Radio Emissions - Dublin, Ireland Duration: 26 Sept 2022 → 28 Sept 2022 Conference number: 9

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Workshop	International Workshop on Planetary, Solar and Heliospheric Radio Emissions
Abbreviated title	PRE
Country/Territory	Ireland
City	Dublin
Period	26/09/2022 → 28/09/2022

Keywords

solar physics
space weather prediction
space weather operations
triangulation

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SYCOS /Korpi-Lagg: Solar cYcle prediCtion tool using sOlar internal oscillations
Korpi-Lagg, M. (Principal investigator)
01/02/2023 → 31/10/2024
Project: EU Horizon Europe ERC

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Weigt, D, Cañizares, LA, Maloney, SA, Murray, SA, Carley, EP, Macario-Rojas, A, Crisp, N & McGrath, C 2023, The Science Behind SURROUND: a Constellation of Cubesats Around the Sun. in Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Planetary, Solar and Heliospheric Radio Emissions. Trinity College Dublin, International Workshop on Planetary, Solar and Heliospheric Radio Emissions, Dublin, Ireland, 26/09/2022. https://doi.org/10.25546/104052

The Science Behind SURROUND: a Constellation of Cubesats Around the Sun. / Weigt, Dale; Cañizares, L. A.; Maloney, S. A. et al.
Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Planetary, Solar and Heliospheric Radio Emissions. Trinity College Dublin, 2023.

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