4 papers
Lunar Reflective Interferometry
Peter W. Gorham, T. Joseph W. Lazio, Andrew Romero-Wolf +14
We present the method of lunar reflection interferometry (LRI) in which a virtual interferometer can be formed by using a spacecraft-borne antenna in lunar orbit that receives both…
ECLIPSE: An Evolutionary Computation Library for Instrumentation Prototyping in Scientific Engineering
Max Foreback, Evan Imata, Vincent Ragusa +18
Designing scientific instrumentation often requires exploring large, highly constrained design spaces using computationally expensive physics simulations. These simulators pose sub…
Compression and Reconnection Investigations of the MagnetoPause (CRIMP): A Mission Concept to Uncover the Impact of Mesoscale Reconnection and Plasma Outflow Processes at the Dayside Magnetopause
Jason M. H. Beedle, Bryan C. Cline, Samuel T. Badman +18
The Compression and Reconnection Investigations of the Magnetopause (CRIMP) mission is a hypothesis-driven, Heliophysics Medium-Class Explorer (MIDEX) Announcement of Opportunity (…
Cosmic Rays and the Askaryan Effect Reveal Subsurface Structure and Buried Ice on the Moon
E. S. Costello, R. R. Ghent, A. Romero-Wolf +10
We present the first full-wavelength numerical simulations of the electric field generated by cosmic ray impacts into the Moon. Billions of cosmic rays fall onto the Moon every yea…