Antoinette Broe Galvin
Alma materUniversity of Maryland
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of New Hampshire
ThesisCharge states of heavy ions in the energy range in the order of 30-130 keV/Q observed in upstream events associated with the earth's bow shock (1982)

Antoinette (Toni) Galvin is space physicist at the University of New Hampshire. She is known for her research on the solar wind.

Education and career

Galvin earned her B.S. in physics from Purdue University, and has an M.S. and a Ph.D.[1] in physics from the University of Maryland.[2] Galvin was a research faculty member of the University of Maryland before moving to the University of New Hampshire in 1997.[3] As of 2011, Galvin is a research professor in physics and astronomy at the University of New Hampshire and the director of the New Hampshire NASA Space Grant program and the New Hampshire NASA EPSCoR program.[3]

In 2019, Galvin was named a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, who cited her "for exceptional contributions to our understanding of the properties of the solar wind, its solar sources, and its structure in the heliosphere."[4]

Research

Galvin is a space physicist whose research is on heliophysics, the science of the sun. Galvin's early research included working on the Ultra-Low Energy Charge Analyzer (ULECA) instrumentation for two of the NASA-ESA International Sun-Earth Explorer spacecraft (ISEE-1 and ISEE-3) with which she examined the ions upstream of Earth's bow shock[5] and used changes in the charge state of heavy ions to track the solar wind ionization temperature.[6] Galvin has also examined heavy ions in the comet 21P/Giacobini–Zinner.[7] Galvin worked on the Solar Wind Ion Composition Spectrometer (SWICS) instrumentation for the Ulysses spacecraft that was a shared venture between NASA and the European Space Agency.[8] Ulysses enabled Galvin and colleagues to identify interstellar hydrogen[9] and to identify events associated with coronal mass ejections, also known as solar explosions.[10]

Galvin also worked on the Mass Time-of-Flight (MTOF) and Proton Monitor (PM) instrumentation on the NASA-ESA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) mission and on the development of a supra-thermal ion experiment that flew on the NASA-Japan Geotail mission. Galvin was the lead for the Suprathermal Ion Composition Spectrometer (STICS) on the NASA Wind spacecraft. Galvin is the principal investigator for the PLasma and SupraThermal Ion Composition (PLASTIC) instruments on the two Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory STEREO spacecraft.[11][12] In 2009, data from PLASTIC provided the solar wind measurements for the first three-dimensional images of a coronal mass ejection from the sun.[13] In 2012, Galvin and colleagues observed an extreme storm which will help establish the conditions that lead to the prediction of sun storms and thereby reduce their impact on communications on Earth.[14][13] On the Solar Orbiter platform, Galvin is the lead for the group that developed the time of flight section of the Heavy Ion Sensor on the Solar Wind Analyser platform.[15][16] She is a team member of the HelioSwarm NASA MIDEX mission, currently under development.

Selected publications

Awards and honors

  • Fellow, American Geophysical Union (2019)[4]

References

  1. ↑ Galvin, Antoinette Broe (1982). "Charge states of heavy ions in the energy range in the order of 30-130 keV/Q observed in upstream events associated with the earth's bow shock". University Microfilms. Bibcode:1982PhDT.........3G. OCLC 946012050. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. ↑ "Galvin, Antoinette". findscholars.unh.edu. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  3. 1 2 "NHSGC Director Toni Galvin". www.nhsgc.unh.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  4. 1 2 "Galvin". Honors Program. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  5. ↑ Ipavich, F. M.; Galvin, A. B.; Gloeckler, G.; Scholer, M.; Hovestadt, D. (1981). "A statistical survey of ions observed upstream of the Earth's bow shock: Energy spectra, composition, and spatial variation". Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 86 (A6): 4337–4342. Bibcode:1981JGR....86.4337I. doi:10.1029/JA086iA06p04337. ISSN 2156-2202.
  6. ↑ Galvin, A. B.; Ipavich, F. M.; Gloeckler, G.; Hovestadt, D.; Klecker, B.; Scholer, M. (1984). "Solar wind ionization temperatures inferred from the charge state composition of diffuse particle events". Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 89 (A5): 2655–2671. Bibcode:1984JGR....89.2655G. doi:10.1029/JA089iA05p02655. ISSN 2156-2202.
  7. ↑ Ipavich, F. M.; Galvin, A. B.; Gloeckler, G.; Hovestadt, D.; Klecker, B.; Scholer, M. (1986-04-18). "Comet Giacobini-Zinner: In Situ Observations of Energetic Heavy Ions". Science. 232 (4748): 366–369. Bibcode:1986Sci...232..366I. doi:10.1126/science.232.4748.366. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 17792146. S2CID 22856104.
  8. ↑ "Ulysses Offers New Insights on Conditions over Sun's Poles". NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). October 26, 1995. Archived from the original on 2021-07-31. Retrieved 2021-07-31.
  9. ↑ Gloeckler, G.; Galvin, A. B.; Ipavich, F. M.; Geiss, J.; Balsiger, H.; von Steiger, R.; Fisk, L. A.; Ogilvie, K. W.; Wilken, B. (1993-07-02). "Detection of Interstellar Pick-Up Hydrogen in the Solar System". Science. 261 (5117): 70–73. Bibcode:1993Sci...261...70G. doi:10.1126/science.261.5117.70. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 17750548. S2CID 46167186.
  10. ↑ Galvin, A.B.; Gloeckler, G.; Ipavich, F.M.; Shafer, C.M.; Geiss, J.; Ogilvie, K. (1993-06-01). "Solar wind composition measurements by the Ulysses SWICS experiment during transient solar wind flows". Advances in Space Research. 13 (6): 75–78. doi:10.1016/0273-1177(93)90393-P. ISSN 0273-1177.
  11. ↑ "STEREO - Team". stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2021-07-31.
  12. ↑ "UNH space scientists deliver twin instruments to NASA". phys.org. June 6, 2006. Archived from the original on 2021-07-31. Retrieved 2021-07-31.
  13. 1 2 Atkinson, Nancy (2009-04-14). "The Anatomy of a Solar Explosion in 3-D". Universe Today. Retrieved 2021-07-31.
  14. ↑ Liu, Ying D.; Luhmann, Janet G.; Kajdič, Primož; Kilpua, Emilia K. J.; Lugaz, Noé; Nitta, Nariaki V.; Möstl, Christian; Lavraud, Benoit; Bale, Stuart D.; Farrugia, Charles J.; Galvin, Antoinette B. (2014-03-18). "Observations of an extreme storm in interplanetary space caused by successive coronal mass ejections". Nature Communications. 5 (1): 3481. arXiv:1405.6088. Bibcode:2014NatCo...5.3481L. doi:10.1038/ncomms4481. ISSN 2041-1723. PMID 24642508. S2CID 11999567.
  15. ↑ "University of New Hampshire Heading Back to The Sun on Solar Orbiter". UNH Today. 29 January 2020. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
  16. ↑ Owen, C. J.; et al. (October 2020). "The Solar Orbiter Solar Wind Analyser (SWA) suite". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 642: A16. Bibcode:2020A&A...642A..16O. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201937259. S2CID 224966409.
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