Preface to the Special Issue on Modeling and Data Analysis Methods for the SMILE mission  

作　　者：TianRan Sun Hyunju Connor Andrey Samsonov 

机构地区：[1]National Space Science Center,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100190,China [2]NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,US [3]Mullard Space Science Laboratory,University College London,UK

出　　处：《Earth and Planetary Physics》2024年第1期1-4,共4页地球与行星物理（英文版）

基　　金：Sun acknowledges the support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China through grants(No.s 42322408,42188101,and 42074202).

摘　　要：The SMILE(Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer)project(http://www.nssc.cas.cn/smile/,https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/smile/mission)is a joint spacecraft mission of the European Space Agency(ESA)and the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)with an expected launch in 2025.SMILE aims to study the global interactions of solar wind–magnetosphere–ionosphere innovatively by imaging the Earth’s magnetosheath and cusps in soft X-rays and the northern auroral region in ultraviolet(UV)while simultaneously measuring plasma and magnetic field parameters in the solar wind and magnetosheath along a highly-elliptical and highly-inclined orbit.This special issue is composed of 22 articles,presenting recent progress in modeling and data analysis techniques developed for the SMILE mission.In this preface,we categorize the articles into the following seven topics and provide brief summaries:(1)instrument descriptions of the Soft X-ray Imager(SXI),(2)numerical modeling of the X-ray signals,(3)data processing of the X-ray images,(4)boundary tracing methods from the simulated images,(5)physical phenomena and a mission concept related to the scientific goals of SMILE-SXI,(6)studies of the aurora,and(7)ground-based support for SMILE.

关 键 词：SMILE X-ray imaging MAGNETOSPHERE auroral IONOSPHERE 

分 类 号：P353[天文地球—空间物理学]