FGE (Flare Genesis Experiment)

Sitio de lanzamiento: Williams Field, Estación McMurdo, Antartida  
Dia y hora de lanzamiento: 10/1/2000 3:13 utc
Lanzamiento y operación del globo a cargo de: National Scientific Balloon Facility (NSBF)
Tipo de globo/fabricante/volumen/composicion: Globo de Presión Cero Winzen - 850.000 m3 - SF3-424.37-080-NSC-X-ST
Nº de serie del globo: W29.47-2X-17
Nº de vuelo: 477N
Dia y hora de fin del vuelo (L para hora de aterrizaje, W ultimo contacto conocido, resto hora de separacion): 27/1/2000 4:33 utc
Duración del vuelo (F: tiempo a flotacion, resto tiempo total de vuelo en d:dias / h:horas / m:minutos): 17 d
Sitio de aterrizaje o ultima posición conocida: Cerca de la base McMurdo, Antartida
Peso carga útil: 3300 lbs
Peso Total: 4825 lbs

• Balloon-Borne Polarimetry - The Flare Genesis Experiment Solar Physics, Volume 164, Issue 1-2, pp. 403
• Conference of Andreas Andreou - Johns Hopkins University (11/18/21) about Flare Genesis Project (starting on minute 9:20) Institute for Neural Computation youtube channel
• Details on STARLAB, the former space mission cancelled that transferred its main telescope to be used in the Flare Genesis program  
• Emerging Flux and the Heating of Coronal Loops Stars as suns : activity, evolution and planets, Proceedings of the 219th symposium of the International Astronomical Union, p. 484 (2004)
• Emerging Flux and the Heating of Coronal Loops The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 601, Issue 1, pp. 530
• Flare Genesis Experiment: magnetic topology of Ellerman bombs Solar variability: from core to outer frontiers. The 10th European Solar Physics Meeting, p.911 (2002)
• High Resolution polarimetry with a Balloon-Borne Telescope: The Flare Genesis Experiment High Resolution Solar Physics: Theory, Observations, and Techniques, ASP Conference Series #183 p.279 (1999)
• High Resolution Vector Magnetograms with the Flare Genesis Vector Polarimeter 20th Advanced Solar Polarimetry -- Theory, Observation, and Instrumentation - p.399 (2001)
• High-flying science Article on FLARE GENESIS from the Antarctic Sun magazine
• Moving Dipolar Features in an Emerging Flux Region Solar Physics, v. 209, Issue 1, p. 119 (2002)
• Peculiar moving magnetic features observed with the Flare Genesis Experiment American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2001
• Sitio web del experimento Flare Genesis Flare Genesis Experiment website
• Statistics, Morphology, and Energetics of Ellerman Bombs ApJ 575 506 (2002)
• The Flare Genesis Experiment: studying the Sun from the stratosphere Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest, Volume 14, Number 4 (1993)
• The Flare Genesis project Adv. Space Res. Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. (2)89, 1994
• Vector magnetic field observations of flux tube emergence Proceedings of the Magnetic Coupling of the Solar Atmosphere Euroconference and IAU Colloquium 188, p. 575 (2002)