Institute for Geophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics

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Institute for Geophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics
founding September 14, 1961
place Braunschweig
state Lower Saxony
country Germany
management Karl-Heinz Glassmeier
Employee 50
including professors 3
Website www.igep.tu-bs.de

The Institute for Geophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics (IGeP) is a research facility at the Technical University of Braunschweig .

The institute primarily conducts basic research in the fields of geophysics , environmental geophysics , geomagnetics and extraterrestrial physics, especially in the field of the earth's magnetospheres, other planets and asteroids. The institute is known worldwide for the development and continuous improvement of flyable magnetometers . Numerous magnetometer experiments from international satellite missions have either been built and supervised or calibrated at the IGeP.

history

In 1931, the Technical University of Braunschweig set up the Institute for Aviation Measurement Technology and Flight Meteorology in close association with the German Aviation School. Heinrich Koppe was entrusted with the management . The main focus of research was navigation and flight meteorology. Prospective pilots were instructed in these disciplines at the institute.

After the war in 1945/46, the institute was converted into the Institute for Measurement Technology and Meteorology. Based on work on the meteorological events of geo- and astrophysical processes, the teaching activity was also extended to lectures on geophysics. Koppe also dealt with questions of the influence of solar activity on the weather, with longer-term air pressure waves and with singularities. His attempts to establish correlations between solar activity and weather were viewed critically by colleagues at the time. Later research results, including from NASA, confirmed his theories.

After his retirement on April 1, 1959, the chair for aeronautical metrology and meteorology was divided into a chair for flight guidance and a chair for geophysics and meteorology. On December 1, 1960, Walter Kertz took over this chair and with it the management of the Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology founded in 1959. Walter Kertz retired on September 30, 1991.

As a successor to the chair of geophysics, Karl-Heinz Glaßmeier took over the management of the institute from November 1st, 1991 to 2003. In 1967 the institute moved into new premises in the physics center of the TU Braunschweig, where it is still located today. With effect from April 28, 2004, the Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology was renamed the Institute for Geophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics in order to take into account the changing research interests of the institute.

research

The institute, which consists of 50 scientists, deals with magnetic pulsations on the earth and the magnetospheres of other planets, magnetic induction in the earth and on other planets, questions of planet formation, as well as research on comets and asteroids.

The research topics at a glance:

Instrumentation

The IGeP has built instruments or parts thereof for a number of research satellites.

Ongoing missions

Graduate schools

The International Max Planck Research School "Physical Processes in the Solar System and Beyond" was opened at the IGeP in 2003 and is operated jointly by the Lindau Institute with the University of Göttingen and the TU Braunschweig.

Infrastructure

At the beginning of 2013 there were a total of 50 employees at the institute, including 3 professors and 35 research assistants. The three professors at the institute form the institute's board of directors and take turns with the institute's executive management every two years. Karl-Heinz Glaßmeier has been the head of the management since 2016 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Articles on the history of the Institute for Geophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics, Braunschweig, accessed in May 2013 from geophys.tu-bs.de (no longer available online)
  2. ↑ NASA; NSSDC Master Catalog, “Fluxgate Magnetometer” on nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov, accessed May 5, 2013.
  3. ^ "German satellites", section Dial, 2nd paragraph on bernd-leitenberger.de, accessed on May 12, 2013.
  4. ↑ "Helios 1 & 2", Sections 2 and 3. Flux-gate magnetometers. Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station, Canberra, Australia. on honeysucklecreek.net, accessed May 12, 2013.
  5. ↑ Completed missions: AMPTE on dlr.de, accessed on May 13, 2013.
  6. ^ "Giotto", section "Magnetometer (MAG)". at bernd-leitenberger.de, accessed on May 12, 2013.
  7. ^ NASA, Mission Archives, Space Shuttle, Mission: TSS-1R; USMP-3. on nasa.gov, accessed May 13, 2013.
  8. ↑ "The Mars 96 Orbiter", section "MAREMF". at bernd-leitenberger.de, accessed on May 13, 2013.
  9. ↑ Completed missions: "Equator-S" on dlr.de, accessed on May 13, 2013.
  10. ↑ Deepspace 1 at igep.tu-bs.de, accessed on May 13, 2013.
  11. ↑ a b c Website of the Institute for Space Research (IWF), "Mermag", 2nd paragraph, Graz, Austria, October 25, 2012 from iwf.oeaw.ac.at, accessed on May 13, 2013.
  12. ↑ project website IGeP, "Mascot", Braunschweig, Germany. at igep.tu-bs.de, accessed on May 5, 2013.
  13. ↑ The fluxgate magnetometer of the BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter (English), bibcode : 2010P & SS ... 58..287G
  14. ↑ Press release: Third International Max Planck Research School at the University of Göttingen on uni-goettingen.de, accessed on May 17, 2013.

Coordinates: 52 ° 16 '49 "  N , 10 ° 32' 52.4"  E