The Advanced Composition Explorer Mission

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. The Advanced Composition Explorer

   • E. C. Stone, A. M. Frandsen, R. A. Mewaldt, E. R. Christian, D. Margolies, J. F. Ormes et al.

   Pages 1-22

3. Challenges for the Advanced Composition Explorer

   • J. A. Simpson

   Pages 23-50

4. On the Slow Solar Wind

   • L. A. Fisk, N. A. Schwadron, T. H. Zurbuchen

   Pages 51-60

5. Wind Observations of Suprathermal Electrons in the Interplanetary Medium

   • R. P. Lin

   Pages 61-78

6. Particle Acceleration in Impulsive Solar Flares

   • James A. Miller

   Pages 79-105

7. Interstellar Matter and the Boundary Conditions of the Heliosphere

   • Priscilla C. Frisch

   Pages 107-126

8. Interstellar and Inner Source Pickup Ions Observed with SWICS on Ulysses

   • George Gloeckler, Johannes Geiss

   Pages 127-159

9. Insights into Cosmic-Ray Acceleration from the Study of Anomalous Cosmic Rays

   • J. R. Jokipii

   Pages 161-178

10. A Cosmic-Ray Composition Controlled by Volatility and A/Q Ratio. SNR Shock Acceleration of Gas and Dust

    • Jean-Paul Meyer, Luke O’C. Drury, Donald C. Ellison

    Pages 179-201

11. Cosmic Rays from Supernova Remnants: A Brief Description of the Shock Acceleration of Gas and Dust

    • Donald C. Ellison, Luke O’C. Drury, Jean-Paul Meyer

    Pages 203-224

12. Cosmic-Ray Clocks

    • Vladimir S. Ptuskin, Aimé Soutoul

    Pages 225-238

13. What are the Limits for Ace Galactic Cosmic-Ray Isotope Studies?

    • W. R. Webber

    Pages 239-256

14. Ace Spacecraft

    • M. C. Chiu, U. I. Von-Mehlem, C. E. Willey, T. M. Betenbaugh, J. J. Maynard, J. A. Krein et al.

    Pages 257-284

15. The Cosmic-Ray Isotope Spectrometer for the Advanced Composition Explorer

    • E. C. Stone, C. M. S. Cohen, W. R. Cook, A. C. Cummings, B. Gauld, B. Kecman et al.

    Pages 285-356

16. The Solar Isotope Spectrometer for the Advanced Composition Explorer

    • E. C. Stone, C. M. S. Cohen, W. R. Cook, A. C. Cummings, B. Gauld, B. Kecman et al.

    Pages 357-408

17. The Ultra-Low-Energy Isotope Spectrometer (ULEIS) for the Ace Spacecraft

    • G. M. Mason, R. E. Gold, S. M. Krimigis, J. E. Mazur, G. B. Andrews, K. A. Daley et al.

    Pages 409-448

18. The Solar Energetic Particle Ionic Charge Analyzer (SEPICA) and the Data Processing Unit (S3DPU) for SWICS, SWIMS and SEPICA

    • E. Möbius, L. M. Kistler, M. A. Popecki, K. N. Crocker, M. Granoff, S. Turco et al.

    Pages 449-495

19. Investigation of the Composition of Solar and Interstellar Matter Using Solar Wind and Pickup Ion Measurements with SWICS and SWIMS on the Ace Spacecraft

    • G. Gloeckler, J. Cain, F. M. Ipavich, E. O. Tums, P. Bedini, L. A. Fisk et al.

    Pages 497-539

20. Electron, Proton, and Alpha Monitor on the Advanced Composition Explorer Spacecraft

    • R. E. Gold, S. M. Krimigis, S. E. Hawkins III, D. K. Haggerty, D. A. Lohr, E. Fiore et al.

    Pages 541-562

NASA's Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) was launched on August 25, 1997, carrying six high-resolution spectrometers that measure the abundances of the elements, isotopes, and ionic charge states of energetic nuclei in space. Data from these instruments is being used to measure and compare the composition of the solar corona, the nearby interstellar medium, and cosmic-ray sources in the Galaxy, and to study particle acceleration processes in a variety of environments. ACE also includes three instruments that monitor solar wind and energetic particle activity near the inner Lagrangian point, "1.5 million kilometers sunward of Earth, and provide continuous, real-time data to NOAA for use in forecasting space weather. Eleven of the articles in this volume review scientific progress and outline questions that ACE will address in solar, space-plasma, and cosmic-ray physics. Other articles describe the ACE spacecraft, the real-time solar-wind system, and the instruments used to measure energetic particle composition.

• Corona
• Heliosphere
• Planet
• Solar
• Solar flare
• Solar wind
• Sun

• University of California, Los Angeles, USA

  C. T. Russell

• California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA

  R. A. Mewaldt

• NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USA

  T. T. Rosenvinge

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