EPSRC-Royal Society fellowship engagement (2013): Heating of the solar atmosphere by small flares
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Glasgow
Department Name: School of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
Please refer to attached Royal Society application
Planned Impact
Please refer to attached Royal Society application
People |
ORCID iD |
| Iain Hannah (Principal Investigator / Fellow) |
Publications
Kuhar M
(2017)
EVIDENCE OF SIGNIFICANT ENERGY INPUT IN THE LATE PHASE OF A SOLAR FLARE FROM NuSTAR X-RAY OBSERVATIONS
in The Astrophysical Journal
Marsh A
(2017)
First NuSTAR Limits on Quiet Sun Hard X-Ray Transient Events
in The Astrophysical Journal
Wang J
(2017)
Observations of Reconnection Flows in a Flare on the Solar Disk
in The Astrophysical Journal
Wright P
(2017)
Microflare Heating of a Solar Active Region Observed with NuSTAR , Hinode /XRT, and SDO /AIA
in The Astrophysical Journal
| Description | We have the tools working to produce the DEM maps and lightcurves and testing a variety of different time series analysis. This has taken slightly longer than expected but are still working on this even though this funding has finished. This is because the person funding on this project is had to write up their PhD thesis, which was submitted at the end of Jan 2019, examined and passed in April 2019 before moving to a position in the US. A postdoc funded via a different grant has taken over one aspects of this work (DEM maps to helioviewer) and the data sets are currently being produced and should be available online by Summer 2020. Update: Unfortunately due to cvoid-19 aspects of this were delayed but back on track for summer 2021. |
| Exploitation Route | Once the DEM code of this project has been finalised and fully tested we will make if freely available online for the solar community. We will also be making available the DEM map outputs through the commonly used web-interface for our community. |
| Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Other |
| Description | ISSI Bern team meeting |
| Amount | SFr. 6,000 (CHF) |
| Organisation | International Space Science Institute (ISSI) |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Start | 01/2016 |
| End | 06/2017 |
| Description | Collaboration with Ireland & Viall |
| Organisation | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) |
| Department | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Visit and placement at Nasa Goddard Space Flight Centre, USA for a month to develop the analysis tools for producing lightcurves as a function of temperature instead of wavelength channel for quiescent regions observed in EUV with SDO/AIA. This can then be used as an input to other analysis techniques to determine the heating properties of regions of the solar atmosphere. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise of different analysis techniques to be applied to the SDO/AIA lightcurves which can determine physical properties of the underlying heating mechanisms within different model scenarios. Dr Nicholeen Viall has expertise on a time-lag approach in comparison to EBTEL nanoflare models and Dr. Jack Ireland has expertise in fourier time series analysis to determine heating properties. |
| Impact | Work is still on going and publications should be finished and submitted in 2017. There have been presentations on this work at some meeting, including at the LWS/SDO workshop in Burlington, US in Oct 2016. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Live TV/Web coverage of partial solar eclipse |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The RA employed on the grant spent a morning at the STV studios in Glasgow where a live TV/Web programme was broadcast leading up to and during the partial solar eclipse. The main audience here was school children learning about the eclipse but also the work at Glasgow on solar physics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Solar Eclipse event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | We hosted a viewing event at two locations on campus for the partial solar eclipse in March 2015. We were able to chat to those attending about the solar physics we do at Glasgow whilst the eclipse was happening. Well over thousand people attended at our two locations on campus. We also conducted several TV, radio, newspaper and online interviews before and during the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/?p=3626 |