2008-06-10 04:24:52

Participation of the Armenian delegation in UN/ESA/NASA/JAXA Workshop

Participation of the Armenian delegation in UN/ESA/NASA/JAXA Workshop on

the International Heliophysical Year 2007 and Basic Space Science

"First Results from the International Heliophysical Year 2007"

hosted by the Solar-Terrestrial Influences Laboratory of the Bulgarian Academy

of Sciences, on behalf of the Government of Bulgaria,

 2-6June 2008, Sozopol, Bulgaria

 

The CRD delegation to the conference comprised  5 CRD employees, supported by EU projects, and 2 students from Yerevan State University, supported by UN and NASA. Totally 4 oral and 8 poster presentations were delivered. All presentations were based on the Aragats Space Environmental Center (ASEC) data and on the first results from new SEVAN particle detector network, initiated and guided by CRD. The UN office of  Outer Space Affairs issued a special certificate confirming the support to SEVAN (see attached). During the conference the INTAS 8777 project meeting was held with collaborators from Germany, Swiss and Israel.The current activities were examined and decided to continue hardware modifications at Aragats and also perform detailed detector simulations. For that purpose, Arthur Reymers from CRD was planned to visit Bern University for 2 weeks in August 2008. During the meeting with the Bulgarian and Croatian SEVAN group members SEVAN construction was demonstrated; the mechanical parts of Photomultiplier (PM) housings, prepared by the Croatian group, were examined and fitted to PM- brought by the Armenian group; all design details were discussed and confirmed. Visit of the Armenian experts to Bulgaria and Croatia for final detector assembling was planned for Summer –Autumn 2008. The current status of the newly started Neutron Monitor Data Base (NMDB) project were discussed with Swiss representative Rolf Bitgofer from Bern University; the Armenian input to the working program was clarified. Attention was drawn to DVIN 5 program and neutron monitor electronics developed by the Armenian group, now under testing in CRD. A.Chilingarian in his report emphasized the importance and necessity of world-wide networks of particle detectors such as the NM network (with recent developments such as the  EU supported NMDB project) and muon detectors network, coordinated by Nagoya and Shinshu universities. A.Reymers demonstrated the advantages of newly created SEVAN particle detectors network, measuring simultaneously 3 species of secondary cosmic rays.

LIST of CRDPresentations

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.Reymerset 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-environmentalcenter 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

Figure 1 The CRD group preparing to the poster session. From left to right: A.Yeghikyan, A.Reymers, K.Arakelyan, 1 year master student A.Hovhanissyan, second year master student T.Karapetyan, G.Hovsepyan

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 University, L.Dorman, Tel-Aviv University, A.Chilingarian, CRD, L.Pustilnik, Tel-Aviv University.


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

Figure 4 The Armenian delegation with senior scientist of UN office of outer space Hans Huboldt and Jadranka Rosa from Zagreb observatory



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

Figure 6 The Armenian boys and a Bulgarian girl; visit at the gifted children school