SPEARHEAD
SPEcification, Analysis & Re-calibration of High Energy pArticle Data
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About SPEARHEAD
Through a detailed analysis of very high-energy particle observations from the most important heliophysics missions combined with ground based measurements, SPEcification, Analysis & Re-calibration of High Energy pArticle Data – SPEARHEAD will provide answers to three science questions:
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How are ions and electrons accelerated to the highest energies in solar eruptions, beyond 100 MeV/n and 1 MeV, respectively?
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What are the processes governing particle release from acceleration sites in the solar corona?
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What are the key processes of high-energy particle transport in the interplanetary medium, in the magnetosphere and in the atmosphere?
To enable the scientific data analysis SPEARHEAD has three technical objectives:
Develop and distribute analysis tools to extract high-energy particle fluxes from particle detectors designed to operate at lower energies or to yield monitoring data. Response functions of spacecraft instruments will be determined and particle fluxes of the very high energy particles as a function of time and energy will be delivered.
Process and cross-calibrate a large number of data to produce high-energy particle flux datasets and distribute them to the community.
Validate the data against intermittent direct spectrometer observations.
Project's Results
The scientific results of SPEARHEAD, including catalogs, datasets, publications, and tools, are presented below and will be regularly updated as the project progresses. Open-access repositories such as Zenodo, GitHub, and arXiv form an integral part of SPEARHEAD’s distribution network, ensuring seamless dissemination and accessibility of the project’s outputs
Catalogues & Data
Publications
Tools
MSc Course
Partners
