EGU21-15792
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-15792
EGU General Assembly 2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

First Results from Solar Orbiter’s Energetic Particle Detector

Javier Rodriguez-Pacheco1 and the EPD Team*
Javier Rodriguez-Pacheco and the EPD Team
  • 1Universidad de Alcala, Space Research Group, Física & Matemáticas, Alcala de Henares, Spain (fsrodriguez@uah.es)
  • *A full list of authors appears at the end of the abstract

In this presentation, we will show the first measurements performed by EPD since the end of the commissioning phase until the latest results obtained. During these months EPD has been scanning the inner heliosphere at different heliocentric distances and heliolongitues allowing - together with other spacecraft - to investigate the spatio-temporal behavior of the particle populations in the inner heliosphere during solar minimum conditions. Solar Orbiter was launched from Cape Canaveral on February 10th, 2020, thus beginning the journey to its encounter with the Sun. Solar Orbiter carries ten scientific instruments, six remote sensing and four in situ, that will allow the mission main goal: how the Sun creates and controls the heliosphere. Among the in situ instruments, the Energetic Particle Detector (EPD) measures electrons, protons and heavy ions with high temporal resolution over a wide energy range, from suprathermal energies up to several hundreds of MeV/nucleon.

EPD Team:

Wimmer-Schweingruber, Robert; Ho, George; Gomez-Herrero, Raul; Pacheco, Daniel; Berger, Lars; von Forstner, Johan; Eldrum, Sandra; Kollhoff, Alex; Xu, Zigong; Kühl, Patrick; Espinosa, Francisco; Cernuda, Ignacio; Mason, Glenn M; Robert C., Allen; Martínez, Agustín; Cummings, Alan; McKinnon, Alec; Warmuth, Alexander; Klassen, Andreas; Posner, Arik; Pirard, Benoit; Heber, Bernd; Klecker, Berndt; Feldman, Bill; Sanahuja, Blai; McKibben, Bruce; Barraclough, Bruce; Lopate, C.; Martín, César; Ng, Chee; Lee, D. H.; Lario, David; Larson, Davin; Haggerty, Dennis; Hassler, Don; Stone, Edward C.; Valtonen, Eino; Sarris, Emmanuel; Flückiger, Erwin; Aguado, Fernando; Mann, Gottfried; Bernat, Guillem; Aurass, Henry; García, Ignacio; Connell, J.; Ryan, James M.; Köhler, Jan; Blanco Ávalos, Juan José; Kartavykh, Julia; Mannheim, Karl; Klein, Karl-Ludwig; Seimetz, Lars; Panitzsch, Lauri; Kocharov, Leon; Wang, Linghua; Prieto, Manuel; Wiedenbeck, Mark E.; Hill, Matt; Gopalswamy, Nat; Paschalidis, Nick; Vilmer, Nicole; Dresing, Nina; Malandraki, Olga; Limousin, Olivier; García, Óscar; Gutiérrez, Óscar; Rodríguez-Polo, Óscar; Parra, Pablo; Louarn, Philippe; Zong, Qiugang; Vainio, Rami; Müller-Mellin, Reinhold; Mewaldt, Richard; Castillo, Ronald; Sánchez, S.; Kulkarni, Shrinivasrao; Burmeister, Sönke; Böttcher, Stephan; Parkes, Steve; Bale, Stuart; v. Rosenvinge, Tyco; Dröge, Wolfgang; Aran, Angels; Drews, Christian; Owen, Christopher; Maksimovic, Milan; Bucik, Radoslav; Krucker, Säm; Horbury, Timothy; Janitzek, Nils;

How to cite: Rodriguez-Pacheco, J. and the EPD Team: First Results from Solar Orbiter’s Energetic Particle Detector, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-15792, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-15792, 2021.

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