SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT of the First Plasma Observatory Community Workshop

Annonce transmise par Alessandro Retino (LPP)

Plasma Observatory: Unveiling Plasma Energization and Energy Transport Through Multiscale Observations. The Community meets to foster Plasma Observatory scientific ambitions.

12 – 14 November 2024
Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI)
Rome, Italy

The aim of the Workshop is two-fold: to provide an update on the ongoing Phase A study (science, mission, and payload) as well as to broaden the current Plasma Observatory Community with new scientific ideas and new members. Therefore, the Workshop is open to the broader scientific community interested in Plasma Observatory science. Invited and contributed talks as well as poster presentations are foreseen.

Registration and abstract submission.

Registration and abstract submission through an online module that will be available from the beginning of September. Please note that, for security reasons, you will need to provide details of your identity document in order to gain access to ASI.

Venue.

Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) is located in Via del Politecnico in the southeast outskirts of Rome and is close to the city of Frascati, part of the Castelli Romani area. Transportation:

Staying in Rome.

You can get to ASI from the center of Rome by the Metro A line and
stopping at Anagnina station (terminus), and then taking Bus 20 from there stopping
at Via Cambridge bus stop (NOT Cambrige/Columbia, which is at 1 km from ASI).
Staying in Frascati - Driving between ASI and Frascati takes approximately 20
minutes by car. Frascati is connected to the center of Rome by train (about 30 m direct
journey).

Connections to and from the Airports.

Roma Fiumicino airport “Leonardo Da Vinci” is connected to Rome main station Roma Termini by the Leonardo Express train. For more information about the connection from L. Da Vinci Airport to Rome you can use this link. The Ciampino Airport “G. B. Pastine” is not directly connected to Rome by train. Direct connection to Roma Termini is available through bus. The Ciampino Airport is not far from Frascati. Driving between Ciampino Airport and Frascati takes approximately 20 minutes by car.

Further information will be available on the conference website, which will be open to the public in early September.

Plasma Observatory. Plasma Observatory (PO) is a mission proposal in response to the ESA M7 call tailored to study plasma energization and energy transport in the Earth's Magnetospheric System through simultaneous measurements at both fluid and ion scales. PO will allow us to resolve for the first time scale coupling in the Earth's Magnetospheric System, leading to transformative advances in the field of space plasma physics with implications on research fields that span from space weather to the understanding of the farthest astrophysical plasmas. To this goal, the PO mission includes one mothercraft and six identical smallsat daughtercraft flying in a two tetrahedra formation with a common vertex on a orbit that covers all the key regions of the Magnetospheric System including the foreshock, the bow shock, the magnetosheath, the magnetopause, the magnetotail current sheet, and the transition region. PO is one of the three ESA M7 candidates, which have been selected in November 2023 for a competitive Phase A and only one of these missions will be selected for implementation in the middle of 2026 for a launch in 2037.