The Coronas-F Space Mission

Prof. Vladimir Dmitrievich Kuznetsov is director of IZMIRAN of the Russian Academy of Sciences and project scientist of the CORONAS-F mission.

CORONAS-F Project: The study of solar activity and its effects on the Earth.- Brightness fluctuations and global oscillations of the Sun (DIFOS experiment).- Study of Active Phenomena in the Solar Corona in the 8-350 Å Region by Imaging Spectroscopy Methods (SPIRIT Experiment).- Experiment with the SPR-N instrument onboard the CORONAS-F satellite: polarization, temporal and spectral characteristics of the hard X-ray of the solar flares.- Observations of Doppler shifts of X-ray lines in solar flares spectra based on DIOGENESS spectrometer data.- Investigations of physical processes in solar flares plasma on the based on RESIK spectrometer observations.- The study of the cosmic gamma-emission nonstationary fluxes characteristics by the AVS-F apparatus data.- Variability of Extreme Ultraviolet Fluxes at Various Timescales as Measured on Board the CORONAS-F Space Mission (SUFR-SP-K and WUSS-L Experiments).- Scientific Set of Instruments «Solar Cosmic Rays».- Protons Acceleration in Solar Flares: the Results of the Analysis of Gamma-Emission and Neutrons Recorded by the SONG Instrument onboard the CORONAS-F satellite.- Dynamics of the relativistic electrons flux of the Earth outer radiation belt based on the MKL instrument.- Dynamics of the Earth radiation belts during the strong magnetic storms.- Solar protons in the Earth's magnetosphere according to riometric and satellite data during the magnetic storms of October 2003.- Spectrometer IRIS: Investigation of the Time Structure and Energy Spectra of X-Ray Emission From Solar Flares.- Study of Solar Flares and Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Helicon Experiment.- RPS-1 Experiment.- The impact of solar activity on the Earth upper atmosphere as inferred from the CORONAS-F scientific experiments.- On-board and ground-based complexes for operating the science payload of the CORONAS-F space mission.- CORONAS-F: Infrastructure and organization of theinformation exchange.- Organization of a unified data archive and accessories for processing solar images.