DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY	Planetary Atmospheres and Space Science Group

Jupiter/Saturn Auroral Campaign Workshop

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• Important information

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Where: Mountain View Grand Hotel - Whitefield New Hampshire USA

When: June 11-12 2007 

Registration Deadline: 11 May 2007

• Planning and Schedule

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Since we are looking for correlations to determine the physics of cause and effect in planetary aurora, an important element of the auroral campaign is to have an open workshop to compare data sets from different missions and instruments. This campaign includes measurements from HST, Cassini, New Horizons, Earth-based solar wind instruments, ground-based IR telescopes, and ground-based radio telescopes. Lacking any one time when all interested parties could attend, the aurora meeting has been scheduled on the best compromise dates, which are 11-12 June (Mon-Tues) 2007. This is the week after the Cassini PSG meeting in Greece, and some will be staying in Europe for other meetings. It is 2 weeks before the MOP meeting in San Antonio, giving people some time to digest what is learned and do some new work comparing data sets before presentations at MOP. It is a couple of days after the end of ground-based IR observations, and just before the end of the second HST Jupiter campaign. It is 4 weeks after the Cassini MAPS meeting at Univ. of Iowa, giving some time to work on comparative measurements at Saturn for presentation at this workshop.

• Location of the meeting

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For the meeting venue, we are experimenting by going to a nice place rather than a University meeting hall. This will require a little more travel, but it will be a great location at a resort hotel in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. A block of rooms has been reserved at a discount rate at the Mountain View Grand hotel, which has been explored in person and confirmed to be a great place to stay. Since our meeting will be during the week and before the high season, we can get good room rates ($117./night for a standard room, much less than any comparable hotel in Boston), and the resort has a golf course, tennis courts, access to mountains, swimming pool, etc. You might want to bring your spouse/family/significant other and stay over the weekend before or days after the workshop. The location is also a dark site at night, and at a sufficiently high magnetic latitude that auroral sightings are not out of the question.

When calling the hotel to make a room reservation, tell them you are with the “BU Planetary Aurora” group.

The room rates they have quoted in US $ are:

Note that if you plan to stay on Sat. night before the meeting, this will be charged at the higher weekend rate.

• Travel

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There are three airports from which one could reasonably rent a car and drive to the hotel: Boston Massachusetts (150 miles to hotel), Manchester New Hampshire (100 miles), and Montreal Quebec (170 miles). Flying to Manchester NH rather than Boston would save about an hour in driving time. A car will be needed to get to the hotel, but we can help to organize car pooling if people are interested. If any non-US citizens fly into Montreal airport, they should check on any possible visa restrictions when driving a Canadian rental car into the USA.

• Agenda and Meeting Format

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The meeting will be run as a workshop for comparing data sets, much like the meeting at Boston Univ. in April 2004 after the campaign during the approach of Cassini to Saturn. There will NOT be AGU-style presentations, rather we ask people to informally present their measurements with an open discussion. Everyone is encouraged to arrive with a laptop and memory stick, and to organize their data into a format that can be compared with other data sets. The organization of topics will be:

The goal is to have a set of planned papers based on detected correlations by the end of the meeting on Tues. afternoon. 

• Registration

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The workshop is open to all interested parties, and the HST data are being made available at our website. 

Please let us know if you are planning to come by email to John Clarke (jclarke@soleil.bu.edu) This email will register you for the meeting. There will be no registration fee - each attendee will be responsible for their own travel, lodging, and meals.