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2003-2004 USAP
Field Season
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Aeronomy & Astrophysics
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Dr. Vladimir Papitashvili
Program Manager
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A-149-M
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NSF/OPP
NSF/NASA agreement
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Station:
McMurdo Station
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RPSC POC:
Curt LaBombard
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Research Site(s):
McMurdo Station, Williams Field
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Dates in Antarctica:
Late October to late January
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Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder (TIGER) / ANITA-lite
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Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder/ANITA-lite (TIGER/ANITA-lite)
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Deploying Team Members:
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David Z. Besson
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Walter R. Binns
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Dana L. Braun
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Eric R. Christian
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Paul F. Dowkontt
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Michael Duvernois
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John W. Epstein
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Sven Geier
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Peter W Gorham
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Steven Holder
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Kurt Liewer
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Jason T. Link
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Shigenobu Matsuno
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Marc Rosen
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David Saltzberg
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Lauren M. Scott
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Garry E. Simburger
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Research Objectives:
Our primary objectives for the Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder (TIGER) experiment are to measure ultra-heavy galactic cosmic rays in order to determine the source of the material that is accelerated as galactic cosmic rays and the mechanism for injecting that material into the cosmic ray accelerator. Specifically, TIGER will build on our previous work and will collect additional data in order to measure the abundance of the elements in the charge range of interest. Our primary objectives for the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA)–lite experiment, which will fly on the same balloon with TIGER, are to measure the ambient very-high-frequency and ultra-high-frequency (VHF/UHF) impulsive noise levels at float altitudes over the antarctic ice sheet. The ANITA-lite experiment is a pathfinding mission for the ANITA experiment, which is a neutrino telescope that will be designed to detect neutrinos converting in the polar ice sheet.
We will place these experiments on an long-duration balloon that will fly two revolutions around Antarctica to obtain a long data acquisition time for galactic cosmic rays (TIGER) and VHF/UHF impulsive noise levels (ANITA-lite). We will collaborate with the National Scientific Balloon Facility (NSBF), which will ship our experiment and associated equipment to McMurdo Station, provide laboratory space for integration and testing, launch the TIGER/ANITA-lite payload from Williams Field, and conduct flight operations. We will monitor the experiment with electronic ground support equipment at Williams Field for line-of-sight data. Following the flight, NSBF and project personnel will recover the instrument and ship it back to the United States.
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