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Science Examples: Solar System

Solar System: Tutorials

The following is a list of tutorials which demonstrate how to access/query services which are relevant to Solar System science.

Solar System: HelioScope

HelioScope is an AstroGrid tool that searches archives of solar system data for a time range specified by the user.

You can run HelioScope from the AstroGrid Workbench (for help in getting started with the Workbench, follow this link). You can specify the time range you are interested in and start your search. Click on HelioScope nodes to see the data files available for each instrument. You can save files on your local machine or on your AstroGrid storage space (MySpace).

2D solar fits files retrieved by HelioScope can be visualised using Aladin.

Solar System: CTIP model

The CTIP (Coupled Thermosphere Ionosphere Plasmasphere) model can be run via AstroGrid. CTIP is used by many Solar-Terrestrial-Physics (STP) scientists.

Having the model running on the AstroGrid system means that it is widely available to scientists and that it is possible to pass solar and geomagnetic data archived by data centers directly to the model as input, via a workflow.

After the model has run, the output files are returned to the user's MySpace, where they can be downloaded.

To run CTIP, launch the Workbench, go to the Data Analysis tab and click on Science Workflows. Choose CTIP in the drop-down box. A box where input parameters can be typed in will open. See also the detailed CTIP help page.