India Joins Cosmic Ray Division's Sevan Network

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PRESS RELEASE

May 23, 2007

Anahid Yeremian

P.O. Box 655, Menlo Park, CA 94026

anahid@slac.stanford.edu

(650) 926 - 4444

 

India Joins Cosmic Ray Division's SEVAN Network

 

Last week India joined SEVAN, the world wide Space Environmental Viewing

and Analysis Network, led by the Cosmic Ray Division (CRD) of Yerevan

Physics Institute. At a May 19 meeting of the International Heliophysical

Year-07 conference in Bad Honnef, Germany which established cooperation

among the IHY-07 participants, CRD's head Prof. Ashot Chilingarian and

Prof. Saumitra Mukherjee of the School of Environmental Sciences of

Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi signed a memorandum of

understanding for their cooperation.

 

SEVAN will consist of portable, state-of-the-art space weather detectors

designed by the CRD scientists in Armenia which will be placed in countries

around the earth's circumference for an extensive program of space weather

observation, analysis, and forecasting. The most technical and sensitive

parts of the detectors will be built in Armenia. The mechanical framework

and heavy support components will be built and assembled in the host

countries. The collected data will flow via the internet to the control

center in Yerevan. Prof. Ashot Chilingarian is the author and Principal

Investigator of the project. SEVAN detectors will also be placed in

several secondary schools in Armenia and Artsakh for a broad coverage of

the region and to allow students to participate is this research.

 

SEVAN was named the Observatory of the Week, and Professor Chilingarian was

named the Personality of the Week, in IHY07's weekly newsletter. The IHY07

article may be viewed at:

<http://ihy2007.org/newsroom/weekly_070508.shtml>http://ihy2007.org/newsroom/weekly_070508.shtml

 

 

Last week in Bad Honnef a second CRD proposal to the IHY committee,

"Research of Highest Energy Solar Cosmic Rays", was approved. The details

of this cooperative effort will be worked out in the coming months.

 

For more information about the Cosmic Ray Division and the Diaspora

partnership visit

<http://www.crdfriends.org/>http://www.crdfriends.org

 

[hosank]

sounds cool