SH034-05
First Data from Solar Obiter's Energetic Particle Detector (EPD)

Friday, 11 December 2020: 20:46
Virtual
Robert F Wimmer-Schweingruber1, Javier Rodriguez-Pacheco2, George C Ho3, Daniel Pacheco1, Lars Berger4, Johan Lauritz Freiherr von Forstner1, Raul Gomez-Herrero5, Glenn M Mason3, Sandra Eldrum1, Alexander Kollhoff1, Zigong Xu6, Robert Colby Allen3 and Solar Orbiter EPD Team, (1)University of Kiel, Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics, Kiel, Germany, (2)University of Alcalá, Space Research Group, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, (3)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (4)Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics (IEAP), Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (5)University of Alcala, Alcala de Henares, Spain, (6)University of Kiel, Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Kiel, Germany
Recorded Presentation
Abstract:
Solar Orbiter was launched on Febrauary 10, 2020 and its Energetic Particle Detector (EPD) suite started returning data on February 29, 2020. The four EPD sensors STEP, EPT, SIS, and HET measure suprathermal and energetic particles between a few keV and ~ 1 GeV/nuc. The Sun is currently exiting its deep and prolonged activity minimum, and first particle events have been measured by EPD in the inner heliosphere.

We will present first data from the EPD instrument. EPD and the European Space Agency (ESA) embrace an open data policy and thus a substantial part of the reported data will already be available to the scientific community. Therefore, this talk will also explain how to access and use EPD data.

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