Scientific Articles resulting from investigations of SWAP and LYRA can be found as private ADS library.
The Guest Investigator Program of PROBA2
A Guest Investigator Program is available to promote the use of PROBA2 data. Selected proposers are regularly invited to spend one or a few months with the PI teams to obtain expert knowledge on the instruments and to participate in the daily commanding of SWAP and LYRA. Each guest investigator will be reimbursed for travel, accommodation and living expenses.
Up to now, five calls for ideas for the PROBA2 Guest Investigator Program have been published. The first one came out in May 2010 and sollicited guest investigators for the period Sep 2010 until Sep 2011, the second call was published in May 2011, for visits between September 2011 and June 2012, the third call was published in June 2013 for visits between Septermber 2012 and Jun 2013, the fourth call was published in June 2013 for visits between Sep 2013 and Jun 2014, the fifth call for visits was published in April 2014 for visits between Aug 2014 and Apr 2015 and the current, Sixth call, sollicited guest investigators for the period Aug 2015 - Apr 2016. Up to 2015, the PROBA2 Science Centre welcomed the following Guest Investigators:
Guest Investigators of 2010/2011
Investigators |
Instrument |
Title |
Dipankar Banerjee & Krishna Prasad |
SWAP |
Transients and their role in heating and acceleration of the solar wind. |
R. Kariyappa |
LYRA |
Understand the Solar UV & Lyman Alpha Irradiance Variability From LYRA Observations |
Yulia Shugay |
SWAP |
Studies of coronal holes and solar wind velocity forecasts based on SWAP data analysis |
Vladimir.Slemzin, Alexander Urnov, Louise Harra & Sergey Kuzin |
SWAP |
Study of the solar inner corona and search for quasi-stationary coronal streams from active regions using SWAP off-disk observations |
Gael Cessateur |
LYRA |
Reconstructing the solar variability from bandpass measurements |
Martin Snow |
LYRA |
Cross-Calibration and Comparison of LYRA and SOLSTICE |
Ines Kienreich |
SWAP |
Drivers and character of EIT waves |
Claire Raftery |
SWAP |
Connection between solar flares and CMEs |
Serge Koutchmy, Boris Filippov & Ehsan Tavabi |
SWAP |
Investigation of Jet-like TR/ Coronal Phenomena and mini-CMEs in 171 and 304 |
Spiros Patsourakis |
SWAP |
Study of CME Onsets and EUV waves with SWAP on PROBA2 |
Nandita Srivastava |
SWAP |
Study of the pre-‐eruptive and eruptive phase of filaments/prominences in EUV 17.5nm using SWAP telescope on PROBA2 |
Guest Investigators of 2011/2012
Investigator |
Instrument |
Title |
David Long |
SWAP |
The relationship between the on-disk "EIT wave" and its associated CME |
Vladimir Slemzin & Louise Harra |
SWAP |
Long-term study of the solar EUV corona, its dependence on the magnetic field structure and local sources of plasma outflow |
Nicholas Labrosse |
LYRA |
Investigation of UV radiation of solar flares with LYRA |
Grzegorz Michalek |
SWAP |
Study of the origin, evolution and geo-effectiveness of ‘narrow' CMEs |
Yaroslav Egorov |
SWAP/LYRA |
Regularities of CME propagation in new solar cycle according to data from PROBA2, STEREO and LASCO |
Jack Ireland |
LYRA |
Probing flare reconnection regions with LYRA and AIA |
Paul Shearer |
SWAP |
Blind deconvolution technique for accurately estimating the PSF of SWAP |
Guest Investigators of 2012/2013
Investigator |
Instrument |
Title |
Farid Goryaev |
SWAP |
Study of EUV emission of the inner corona and its modeling using the PROBA2/SWAP and Hinode/EIS data |
Muzhou Lu |
SWAP |
Observations and Modeling of Solar Coronal Structures Using High-Resolution Eclipse Images and Space-based telescopes with Wide FOV |
Andrew Inglis |
LYRA |
Enhancing understanding of pulsations in flares using LYRA data |
Maria Madjarska & Klaus Galsgaard |
SWAP |
EUV/Xray jets from coronal holes and the origin of the solar wind |
Andrew Jones & Don McMullin |
LYRA |
Degradation analysis of SDO-EVE and PROBA-2 LYRA data |
Jason Byrne |
SWAP |
Studying the Low-Corona Initiation Phase of CMEs |
Nandita Srivastava |
SWAP/LYRA |
Role of eruptive filaments/prominences in initiation and propagation of CMEs in heliosphere using SWAP & LYRA Observations |
Guest Investigators of 2013/2014
Investigator |
Instrument |
Title |
V. Zigman |
LYRA |
Modelling flare induced ionization enhancements of the lower ionosphere with LYRA data. |
A. Kobelski |
SWAP |
Studying AR-AR Reconnection after Flux Emergence. |
N. Nitta |
SWAP/LYRA |
Studying the dome-like structure of large scale coronal propagating fronts and their relation with shock waves. |
C. Bethge |
SWAP |
Combining SWAP and CoMP to study coronal pseudostreamers and their influence on solar wind speeds. |
C. Guennou |
SWAP |
Performing tomographic reconstruction, in order to study the geometrical properties of coronal streamers. |
D. Baker |
SWAP |
Investigating the nature and extent of large-scale AR loop expansion off-limb. |
C. deForest |
SWAP |
Studying wave motion in the outer corona, as a tool for solar wind flow. |
Guest Investigators of 2014/2015
Investigator |
Instrument |
Title |
C. Arridge |
LYRA |
Solar EUV & solar wind effects on the ionosphere of Venus. |
D. Banerjee |
SWAP |
Estimation of acceleration and evolution of angular width of Coronal Mass Ejections within SWAP FOV using CACTus. |
J. de Patoul |
SWAP |
Morphology of evolution of plume and inter-plume regions. |
L. Hayes |
LYRA |
Nature of red noise processes in solar flares and effect on observations of QPP. |
J. Hutton |
SWAP/LYRA |
Search for active region expansion using PROBA2/SWAP. |
J. Machol |
LYRA |
Investigation of solar flares at the Lyman-alpha wavelength with LYRA & GOES data |
Guest Investigators of 2015/2016
Investigator |
Instrument |
Title |
J. Carlyle |
LYRA |
Column Density Determination of Erupting Filament Material in Proba-2 Images. |
J. Mason |
SWAP/LYRA |
Coronal Dimming Diagnostics In EUV Irradiance Measurements. |
P. Bryans |
SWAP |
Studying the Origins of the Fast Solar Wind. |
L. Feng & J. Plowman |
SWAP |
Morphology and Evolution of Three-dimensional CMEs and Coronal Waves. / Searching for EIT waves in coordinated SWAP and white-light observations |
M. Kirk |
SWAP |
Mapping Solar Cycles Through Polar Coronal Holes. |
S. Savage |
SWAP |
Using SWAP Data to Tie Coronal Flows to Flare Arcades Spines. |
M. Meftah |
LYRA |
Analysis ot the Periodicities Present in the Spectra of PROBA2/LYRA and PICARD/SODISM |