Abstract:
COSTEP addresses scientific objectives related to the following
phenomena:
* Steady state processes in the solar atmosphere
* Energy release and particle acceleration in the solar atmosphere
o Long duration events
o Impulsive events
o Non flare-associated particle events
* Samples of solar atmospheric material
o Large solar particle events
o Elemental abundance of
... low-Z-elements
o Isotopic abundances of H and HE
o Small, 3HE-rich flares and impulsive kilovolt electron events
* Interplanetary medium
o Travelling shock events
o Corotating interaction regions
o Particle propagation in interplanetary space
The COSTEP sensors LION and EPHIN will allow a systematic
investigation of these questions to be made by measuring energetic
particles over a wide range of energies and for different particle
species and combining this information with simultaneous observations
from other experiments in the SOHO payload, on other satellites and
with ground based observations.
All SOHO/CDS data are available from the public SOHO data archive:
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/archive.html
Mirror archives are available at:
SOHO Archive at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK.:
http://trace.solararchive.rl.ac.uk/soho/
SOHO Archive at the Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, France:
http://idc-medoc.ias.u-psud.fr/
SOHO Archive at Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, Torino, Italy:
http://solar.to.astro.it/ 
