CEDAR email: TRACERS session during a mini-GEM workshop

[Connor, Hyunju K. (GSFC-6730)]

Dear CEDAR colleagues,

We’d like to invite you to a special mini-GEM session on the upcoming TRACERS mission. Our session will be held at the Williford C room, Hilton Chicago Hotel (720 South Michigan Avenue) during 15:30 – 17:00 on Dec 11, Sunday before the AGU fall meeting.

The goal of this session is to find strong science rationale with CEDAR and GEM scientists so that TRACERS can expand the high-resolution data collection region to auroral zone and low-latitude/equatorial ionosphere. Currently, TRACRES will observe only the northern cusp.  Your input is highly valuable!

Here is a tentative session schedule.

  1.  Introduction to TRACERS mission - Craig Kletzing (15min)
  2.  TRACERS potential data collection in low-latitude/equatorial ionosphere and aurora zone - John Dorelli/Steve Fuselier (15-20min)
  3.  GOLD mission and science investigations with TRACERS - Richard Easters & Wenbin Wang (15min)
  4.  GDC mission and science investigations with TRACERS - Doug Rowland (15min)
  5.  Discussion – inputs from CEDAR and GEM scientists on science with expanded TRACERS dataset (25-30min)

Please visit the following link to find the mini-GEM schedule, hotel floor map, and online meeting links for virtual attendants.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRQX2u2UJkqRi8w3hk2KhSduS-3mok0E6O9OYZLY6ySdkLG5sh7efeXdABJq0_x8pu5tox0n0ccbFt3/pubhtml

You can register the mini-GEM workshop for free using the following link. It takes less than a minute.
https://gemworkshop.org/pages/miniRegistration.php


Below is the TRACERS session abstract.
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The Tandem Reconnection And Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) mission is the NASA Heliophysics Explorer mission with expected launch in 2024. The overarching mission goal is connecting the magnetospheric cusp to the magnetopause – discovering how spatial or temporal variations in magnetic reconnection drive cusp dynamics. The TRACERS mission consists of two identically instrumented satellites in the same low-Earth, sun-synchronous orbit with the spacecraft separated by 10-120 s along the orbital track. TRACERS makes field and particle observations in the northern cusp. Its instrumentation includes ion and electron spectrometers, DC electric and magnetic field and AC wave measurements. The TRACERS team currently considers expanding its data collection area from the northern cusp to a global ionosphere (especially near the equator and the auroral region), and thus supports the upper atmosphere research. In this session, we will introduce mission details and discuss potential science opportunities of TRACERS with the GEM and CEDAR communities.
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Thank you very much,
Hyunju Connor, John Dorelli, Li-jen Chen, Reiner Friedel, and Craig Kletzing


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Hyunju Kim Connor (she/her/hers)
Research Astrophysicist
Geospace Physics Laboratory, Code 673
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD, USA
Hyunju.k.connor at nasa.gov<mailto:Hyunju.k.connor at nasa.gov>
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