PRESS RELEASE
May 23, 2007
Anahid Yeremian
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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:
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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
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