The Plasma and Suprathermal Ion Composition (PLASTIC) Investigation on the STEREO Observatories

By A. Galvin, L. Kistler, M. Popecki, C. Farrugia, K. Simunac, L. Ellis, E. Möbius, Martin A. Lee, M. Boehm, J. Carroll and 35 more. 2008

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The Plasma and Suprathermal Ion Composition (PLASTIC) investigation provides the in situ solar wind and low energy heliospheric ion measurements for the NASA Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory Mission, which consists of two spacecraft (STEREO-A, STEREO-B). PLASTIC-A and PLASTIC-B are identical. Each PLASTIC is a time-of-flight/energy mass spectrometer designed to determine the elemental composition, ionic charge states, and bulk flow parameters of major solar wind ions in the mass range from hydrogen to iron. PLASTIC has nearly complete angular coverage in the ecliptic plane and an energy range from ∼0.3 to 80 keV/e, from which the distribution functions of suprathermal ions, including those ions created in pick-up and local shock acceleration processes, are also provided.

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1. M. Temmer
2. N. Lugaz
3. A. Thernisien
4. J. Davies
5. B. Vršnak
6. C. Farrugia
7. Jan Luhmann
8. A. Vourlidas

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• RECONSTRUCTING CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS WITH COORDINATED IMAGING AND IN SITU OBSERVATIONS: GLOBAL STRUCTURE, KINEMATICS, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR SPACE WEATHER FORECASTING (2010, background): “…including the In Situ Measurements of Particles and CME Transients (IMPACT) package (Luhmann et al. 2008) and the Plasma and Suprathermal Ion Composition (PLASTIC) investigation (Galvin et al. 2008), which provide in situ measurements of the magnetic field, particles and the bulk solar wind plasma.”
• DEPENDENCE OF SOLAR-WIND POWER SPECTRA ON THE DIRECTION OF THE LOCAL MEAN MAGNETIC FIELD (2009, methodology): “Streams were identified using plasma data, proton velocity and density, from the PLASTIC instrument on board the two Stereo spacecrafts (Galvin et al. 2008).”
• CONNECTING SPEEDS, DIRECTIONS AND ARRIVAL TIMES OF 22 CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS FROM THE SUN TO 1 AU (2014, methodology): “For 5 of the 24 in situ ICME arrivals in our study we use magnetic fields and proton data from the IMPACT (Luhmann et al. 2008) and PLASTIC (Galvin et al. 2008) instruments on the STEREO-B spacecraft.”
• The Physical Processes of CME/ICME Evolution (2017, methodology): “STEREO also provides in situ measurements including both the plasma and the magnetic field made with the In-situ Measurements of Particles and CME Transients (IMPACT) instrument (Luhmann et al. 2008; Galvin et al. 2008).”
• The Large Longitudinal Spread of Solar Energetic Particles During the 17 January 2010 Solar Event (2012, methodology): “Solar wind plasma and interplanetary magnetic field data are provided by the STEREO/PLASTIC (Galvin et al., 2008) and STEREO/MAG (Acuña et al., 2007) instruments, respectively.”