2008-06-02 11:46:53

Armenian Delegation Participates in International Heliophysical Year 2007 Workshop

The delegation of Cosmic Ray Division participated in the UN/ESA/NASA/JAXA Workshop on the first results of the International Heliophysical Year 2007 and Basic Space Science hosted by the Solar-Terrestrial Influences Laboratory of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, held on June 2-6, 2008 in Sozopol, Bulgaria.

The Outer Space office of the United Nations, in cooperation with national and international space-related agencies and organizations, since 1990 has annually organized  workshops on basic space science, particularly for the benefit of scientists and engineers from developing nations.

The Armenian delegation to the conference included 5 Cosmic Ray Division (CRD) employees supported by CRD projects and 2 students of Yerevan State University, supported by the UN and NASA.

 

 

Figure 1. The Armenian delegation, from left to right: Karen Arakelyan, Aram Yeghikyan, Gagik Hovsepyan, Ashot Chilingarian, Tigran Karapetyan (and Artur Reymers making picture) with senior scientist of  the UN office of outer space Hans Huboldt and Jadranka Rosa from Zagreb observatory

 

 Totally 4 oral and 8 poster presentations were delivered by the representatives of Armenia. All presentations were based on the Aragats Space Environmental Center (ASEC) data and on the first results of CRD’s SEVAN particle detector network.

During the conference the INTAS 8777 project meeting was held with collaborators from Germany, Switzerland, and Israel. A decision was made to install new electronics for the Aragats Multichannel Muon Monitor (AMMM) at CRD’s Aragats research station and also to perform detailed detector simulation. As a part of this effort, it was decided that recent PhD recipient Artur Reymers would visit Bern University for 2 weeks in August 2008. During the meetings with Bulgarian and Croatian groups, the SEVAN detector construction was explained. The mechanical parts of photomultiplier housings prepared by the Croatian group were examined and fitted to photomultipliers brought by the Armenian group. All design details were discussed and confirmed. Visits of Armenian experts to Bulgaria and Croatia for final detector assembly were planned for late 2008. The current status of the newly established Neutron Monitor Data Base (NMDB) project was discussed and clarified with Swiss representative Rolf Bitgofer from Bern University. Attention was given to the CRD’s DVIN 5 program and the neutron monitor electronics developed by the Armenian group, now undergoing testing at the CRD.

 


 

Figure 2. After INTAS collaboration meeting: background from left to right: A.Hovhanissyan, A.Yeghikyan, K.Arakelyan, T.Karapetyanl; foreground:R. Buetikofer, Bern University, R.Hippler, the INTAS project coordinator, Greifswald

 

Figure 3. Gagik Hovsepyan with chair of IHY steering committee Joe Davila (NASA), explaining SEVAN

 

Figure 5. Explaining for Croatian scientists how SEVAN modules should be assembled

 

LIST of CRD Presentations

Oral

  1. A.Hovhanissyan et al, Parameters of the Aragats Space-environmental Center monitors as measured at start of 24thSolar Cycle

  2. A.Yeghikyan, WEB based Data Visualization and processing tools for ASEC and SEVAN particle detector networks

  3. A.Chilingarian, Surface Particle Detectors in Space Weather forecast

  4. A.Reymers et al, Hybrid particle-detector network located at Middle-Low latitudes for Solar Physics and Space Weather research

Posters

  1. A.Chilingarian, A.Hovhannisyan, T.Karapetyan, B.Mailyan, A.Reymers, Parameters of the Aragats space-environmental center monitors as measured at start of 24 -th solar cycle

  2. A.Chilingarian, A.Reymers, Characteristics of the particle detectors of the space environmental viewing and analysis network(SEVAN)

  3. Suren Chilingaryan, Sergei Abovyan, Varuzhan Danielyan, Ashot Chilingarian, Advanced data acquisition system for ASEC experiment

  4. A.Chilingarian, A.Reymers, Characteristics of the particle detectors of the space environmental viewing and analysis network (SEVAN)

  5. S.Abovyan, K.Arakelyan, A.Chilingarian, V.Danielyan, D.Pokhsraryan, Electronics for the space environmental viewing and analysis network (SEVAN)

  6. A.Chilingarian, G.Hovsepyan, K.Arakelyan, A.Avetisyan, S.Chilingarian,V.Danielyan, K.Avakyan, A.Reymers, S.Tserunyan, On the possibility to modernize existent network of neutron monitors

  7. A.Chilingarian, A.Hovhanissyan, T.Karapetyan, B.Mailyan, A.Reymers, Barometric coefficients of the neutron monitors located at slopes of mountain aragats corresponding to the times of termalized neutron collection

  8. A.Chilingarian, V.Eganov, A.Hovhanissyan, T.Karapetyan, B.Mailyan, A.Reymers, Daily variation in intensity of different species of secondary cosmic rays as measured by the particle detectors of aragats space environmental center at minimum of solar activity

ESA: European Space Agency

JAXA: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency