Results of the Iastp Program: (Vol 20/4-5 Advances in Space Research S.)

A symposium presenting the scientific results of the Inter-Agency Solar Terrestrial Program (IASTP) was convened by COSPAR commission D at the 31st Plenary meeting in Birmingham, UK, during July 1996. This publication contains 65 of the papers presented at the meeting, and which passed the subsequent review procedure. Papers included describe the various missions and ground-based programs that constitute the IASTP, also called the International Solar Terrestrial Program, or ISTP. These missions include GEOTAIL, INTERBALL, WIND, POLAR and SOHO as well as rocket and ground-based programs. They cover solar wind behaviour, upstream waves and the physics of the bow shock. They discuss processes within the magnetosheath, the magnetopause and its boundary layers, and the polar cusp. The Sun-Earth connection, space weather and magnetospheric dynamics are covered. Exciting new results on the magnetotail, plasma sheet and auroral processes are described and new techniques presented. The IASTP effort represents a close coupling of the space, ground-based and theoretical communities. The symposium, and resulting publication, attempt to reflect that integration.

Table of Contents:
IASTP Missions and Programs. IASTP and solar-terrestrial physics (D.N. Baker, R. Carovillano). POLAR-from the top down (R.A. Hoffman). SOHO, its day in the sun (V. Domingo). Additional spacecraft data sources contributing to the ISTP program (J.H. King). Ground-based supporting programmes for the IASTP (H.J. Opgenoorth). The Solar Wind and Heliosphere. IACG campaign III: solar events and their manifestation in interplanetary space and in geospace (R.A. Harrison). The IACG campaign IV: solar sources of heliospheric structure observed out of the ecliptic (A.B. Galvin, H.S. Hudson). Observations of the solar wind, the bow shock and upstream particles with the WIND 3D plasma instrument (R.P. Lin et al. ). Multipoint study of the solar wind: INTERBALL contribution to the topic (Z. Nemecek et al. ). Upstream Waves. Langmuir wave amplitudes and the electron distribution function near the solar wind-foreshock boundary (S.D. Bale et al. ). GEOTAIL observation of 2f p emission around the terrestrial electron foreshock (Y. Kasaba et al. ). Kinetic theory mode properties: application to low frequency waves in the ion foreshock (X. Blanco-Cano, S.J. Schwartz). Bow Shock. What do we really know about collisionless shocks? (N.A. Krall). Non-stationarity and low frequency turbulence at a quasiperpendicular shock front (M.A. Balikhin et al. ). Magnetosheath. What do we really know about the magnetosheath? (P. Song, C.T. Russell). Magnetopause, Boundary Layer and Cusp. GEOTAIL observation at the dayside magnetopause-confirmation of reconnection events (M. Nakamura et al. ). INTERBALL observations of the dayside magnetopause (O.L. Vaisberg et al. ). The low-latitude flank magnetosheath, magnetopause and boundary layer: WIND observations (T.D. Phan et al. ). Initial TIMAS observations of ion conic heating in the cusp (E.G. Shelley et al. ). Energetic particles in the vicinity of the dawn magnetopause (Z. Nemecek et al. ). Statistical study on electron cyclotron harmonic waves observed in the dayside magnetosphere (H. Usui et al. ). Magnetospheric Dynamics and the Sun-Earth Connection. Testing substorm theories: the need for multipoint observations (M. Lockwood). Mapping ionospheric substorm response (D.J. Knipp, B.A. Emery). What do we really know about solar wind coupling? (J.G. Luhmann). Fields and flows at GEOTAIL during a moderate substorm (R.L. McPherron et al. ). Magnetotail and Plasma Sheet. IACG campaign I summary report: initial results (T. Mukai, L.M. Zelenyi). Substorms, tail flows and plasmoids (T. Nagai et al. ). INTERBALL observations of the plasma sheet (Y.I. Yermolaev). Remote Sensing and Auroral Processes. Auroral observations by the POLAR ultraviolet imager (UVI) (M. Brittnacher et al. ). X-ray imaging of the Aurora (J. Stadsnes et al. ). ISTP: Relativistic particle acceleration and global energy transport (D.N. Baker et al. ).