The Cool Alter-Ego of the Hot Solar Corona
Lead Research Organisation:
Northumbria University
Department Name: Fac of Engineering and Environment
Abstract
The Sun's corona or outer atmosphere has a staggeringly high temperature of several million degrees, over 200 times hotter than its surface. Explaining this feature, which is also present in most stars in the universe, represents one of the most outstanding unsolved puzzles in physics and astronomy.
However, coronal heating has a cool alter-ego. The corona is highly inhomogeneous and upholds a large amount of cold material, a cooling counterpart that is integral to coronal heating and through which unique insight can be gained. On Earth, the hotter and denser the air, the more it rains. Similar heating (evaporation) and cooling (condensation) cycles permeate the solar corona. Coronal cooling is mainly driven by the fundamental process of thermal instability, a mechanism that has recently been recognised as playing a major role in the solar corona but whose characteristics are still poorly understood. This cooling process leads to partially ionised, dense, multi-thermal and clumpy plasma that can drain back down to the solar surface as 'coronal rain', or remain magnetically suspended in the corona to form massive cool structures called prominences, whose destabilisation and eruption constitute the most hazardous phenomena for human exploration of space.
In this project I shall use my expertise in modelling waves and instabilities and my extensive experience in coordinated multi-wavelength observations with cutting edge instruments to investigate the coronal heating mechanisms and the formation of prominences and their eruption. I will strategically address coronal heating by investigating the atmospheric response to the heating in the form of cooling.
The characteristics of the thermal instability by-products, prominences and coronal rain, will be investigated by combining high resolution instruments for space (Hinode, IRIS, SDO) and ground (SST, ALMA) that allow for the first time the full temperature coverage of coronal cooling by thermal instability due to improved spatial, temporal and spectral resolution. The amount in the corona over time, the morphology and dynamics, will allow to develop quantitative models both of coronal heating and of coronal rain / prominence formation and eruption, and elucidate the solar atmospheric mass and energy cycle.
Numerical simulations (with Lare3D, AMR-VAC and Bifrost) and forward modelling (with FoMo and RH) will determine the observational signatures of the major heating candidate mechanisms, such as Alfvénic waves and magnetic reconnection in current sheets, which will then be compared with the observational results. The formation of thermal instability by-products will be investigated analytically and numerically and the cool chromospheric nature of this material will be exploited to achieve the highest resolution probe for the coronal magnetic field topology. This will provide a measure for elemental coronal structure and determine the spatial and temporal scales of the heating. The tracing of cold material and determination of heating mechanism signatures will allow to detect and quantify these mechanisms in action.
The loss of stability of prominences will be addressed by investigating novel ideas such as the MHD avalanche model, through which a kink instability of the small elemental structure can play a crucial role in the overall stability. The conversion of initial mutual magnetic helicity to self-helicity during the reconnection process will be investigated as a solution to the observed puzzling increase of twist during the eruption of prominences.
The St Andrews host institution is a world leader in the core subjects of this project: instabilities, waves and reconnection. Active collaboration and excellent project development opportunities are thus expected. My expertise gained through this project will be essential to fully exploit the capabilities for approved future solar projects such as Solar Orbiter, DKIST and Parker Probe.
However, coronal heating has a cool alter-ego. The corona is highly inhomogeneous and upholds a large amount of cold material, a cooling counterpart that is integral to coronal heating and through which unique insight can be gained. On Earth, the hotter and denser the air, the more it rains. Similar heating (evaporation) and cooling (condensation) cycles permeate the solar corona. Coronal cooling is mainly driven by the fundamental process of thermal instability, a mechanism that has recently been recognised as playing a major role in the solar corona but whose characteristics are still poorly understood. This cooling process leads to partially ionised, dense, multi-thermal and clumpy plasma that can drain back down to the solar surface as 'coronal rain', or remain magnetically suspended in the corona to form massive cool structures called prominences, whose destabilisation and eruption constitute the most hazardous phenomena for human exploration of space.
In this project I shall use my expertise in modelling waves and instabilities and my extensive experience in coordinated multi-wavelength observations with cutting edge instruments to investigate the coronal heating mechanisms and the formation of prominences and their eruption. I will strategically address coronal heating by investigating the atmospheric response to the heating in the form of cooling.
The characteristics of the thermal instability by-products, prominences and coronal rain, will be investigated by combining high resolution instruments for space (Hinode, IRIS, SDO) and ground (SST, ALMA) that allow for the first time the full temperature coverage of coronal cooling by thermal instability due to improved spatial, temporal and spectral resolution. The amount in the corona over time, the morphology and dynamics, will allow to develop quantitative models both of coronal heating and of coronal rain / prominence formation and eruption, and elucidate the solar atmospheric mass and energy cycle.
Numerical simulations (with Lare3D, AMR-VAC and Bifrost) and forward modelling (with FoMo and RH) will determine the observational signatures of the major heating candidate mechanisms, such as Alfvénic waves and magnetic reconnection in current sheets, which will then be compared with the observational results. The formation of thermal instability by-products will be investigated analytically and numerically and the cool chromospheric nature of this material will be exploited to achieve the highest resolution probe for the coronal magnetic field topology. This will provide a measure for elemental coronal structure and determine the spatial and temporal scales of the heating. The tracing of cold material and determination of heating mechanism signatures will allow to detect and quantify these mechanisms in action.
The loss of stability of prominences will be addressed by investigating novel ideas such as the MHD avalanche model, through which a kink instability of the small elemental structure can play a crucial role in the overall stability. The conversion of initial mutual magnetic helicity to self-helicity during the reconnection process will be investigated as a solution to the observed puzzling increase of twist during the eruption of prominences.
The St Andrews host institution is a world leader in the core subjects of this project: instabilities, waves and reconnection. Active collaboration and excellent project development opportunities are thus expected. My expertise gained through this project will be essential to fully exploit the capabilities for approved future solar projects such as Solar Orbiter, DKIST and Parker Probe.
Organisations
- Northumbria University (Fellow, Lead Research Organisation)
- Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (Collaboration)
- Lockheed Martin (United States) (Collaboration)
- University of Orleans (Collaboration)
- University of Oslo (Collaboration)
- FHNW, Switzerland (Collaboration)
- Royal Observatory of Belgium (Collaboration)
- Nagoya University (Collaboration)
- NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- University of Warwick (Collaboration)
- University of the Balearic Islands (Collaboration)
- Slovak Academy of Sciences (Collaboration)
Publications
Berghmans D.
(2023)
First Perihelion of EUI on the Solar Orbiter mission
in arXiv e-prints
Kriginsky M
(2021)
Magnetic field inference in active region coronal loops using coronal rain clumps
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Mandal S
(2022)
What drives decayless kink oscillations in active-region coronal loops on the Sun?
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Zhukov A
(2021)
Stereoscopy of extreme UV quiet Sun brightenings observed by Solar Orbiter/EUI
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Dolliou A
(2023)
Temperature of quiet Sun small scale brightenings observed by EUI on board Solar Orbiter: Evidence for a cooler component
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Terradas J
(2022)
Construction of coronal hole and active region magnetohydrostatic solutions in two dimensions: Force and energy balance
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Kriginsky M
(2020)
Ubiquitous hundred-Gauss magnetic fields in solar spicules
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Kohutova P
(2020)
Self-consistent 3D radiative magnetohydrodynamic simulations of coronal rain formation and evolution
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Antolin P
(2023)
Extreme-ultraviolet fine structure and variability associated with coronal rain revealed by Solar Orbiter/EUI HRI EUV and SPICE
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Alipour N
(2022)
Automatic detection of small-scale EUV brightenings observed by the Solar Orbiter/EUI
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Shivastav Kumar, A.
(2024)
On the Effect of Coronal Rain on Decay-less Oscillations of Coronal Loops
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Berghmans D
(2023)
First perihelion of EUI on the Solar Orbiter mission
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Berghmans D
(2021)
Extreme-UV quiet Sun brightenings observed by the Solar Orbiter/EUI
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Pagano P
(2021)
Modelling of asymmetric nanojets in coronal loops
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Kohutova P
(2023)
Damping of coronal oscillations in self-consistent 3D radiative magnetohydrodynamics simulations of the solar atmosphere
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Johnston C
(2019)
The effects of numerical resolution, heating timescales and background heating on thermal non-equilibrium in coronal loops
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Raouafi N
(2023)
Firefly: The Case for a Holistic Understanding of the Global Structure and Dynamics of the Sun and the Heliosphere
in Bulletin of the AAS
Klimchuk J
(2023)
Heating of the Magnetically Closed Corona and Physical Models of Solar and Stellar Spectral Irradiances
in Bulletin of the AAS
Morton R
(2023)
Revealing the Sun's Alfvénic waves
in Bulletin of the AAS
Schad T
(2023)
Resolving 3D Coronal Loop Physics with Spectropolarimetry and Off-limb Solar Adaptive Optics
in Bulletin of the AAS
Antolin P
(2023)
Cool Multiphase Plasma in Hot Environments
in Bulletin of the AAS
Wedemeyer S
(2022)
Prospects and challenges of numerical modeling of the Sun at millimeter wavelengths
in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
Antolin P
(2022)
Multi-Scale Variability of Coronal Loops Set by Thermal Non-Equilibrium and Instability as a Probe for Coronal Heating
in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
Antolin P.
(2022)
Multi-Scale Variability of Coronal Loops Set by Thermal Non-Equilibrium and Instability as a Probe for Coronal Heating
in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
Kolotkov D
(2023)
Editorial: Thermal imbalance and multiphase plasmas across scales: from the solar corona to the intracluster medium
in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
Nived V
(2022)
Implications of spicule activity on coronal loop heating and catastrophic cooling
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Labrosse N
(2022)
First high resolution interferometric observation of a solar prominence with ALMA
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Antolin P
(2020)
Reconnection nanojets in the solar corona
in Nature Astronomy
Antolin P
(2020)
Publisher Correction: Reconnection nanojets in the solar corona
in Nature Astronomy
Zhong S
(2023)
Polarisation of decayless kink oscillations of solar coronal loops
in Nature Communications
Ishikawa R
(2020)
Temporal and Spatial Scales in Coronal Rain Revealed by UV Imaging and Spectroscopic Observations
in Solar Physics
De Pontieu B
(2021)
A New View of the Solar Interface Region from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)
in Solar Physics
Rast M
(2021)
Critical Science Plan for the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST)
in Solar Physics
Nakariakov V
(2021)
Kink Oscillations of Coronal Loops
in Space Science Reviews
Anfinogentov S
(2022)
Novel Data Analysis Techniques in Coronal Seismology
in Space Science Reviews
Li B
(2020)
Magnetohydrodynamic Fast Sausage Waves in the Solar Corona
in Space Science Reviews
Van Doorsselaere T
(2020)
Coronal Heating by MHD Waves
in Space Science Reviews
Banerjee D
(2021)
Magnetohydrodynamic Waves in Open Coronal Structures
in Space Science Reviews
Sahin, S.
(2024)
From Chromospheric Evaporation to Coronal Rain: An Investigation of the Mass and Energy Cycle of a Flare
in The Astrophysical Journal
Sahin S
(2023)
Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Quiescent Coronal Rain over an Active Region
in The Astrophysical Journal
Reep J
(2020)
Electron Beams Cannot Directly Produce Coronal Rain
in The Astrophysical Journal
Sukarmadji A
(2022)
Observations of Instability-driven Nanojets in Coronal Loops
in The Astrophysical Journal
Cheung M
(2022)
Probing the Physics of the Solar Atmosphere with the Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE). II. Flares and Eruptions
in The Astrophysical Journal
Shi M
(2021)
Forward Modeling of Simulated Transverse Oscillations in Coronal Loops and the Influence of Background Emission
in The Astrophysical Journal
Shi M
(2021)
The First 3D Coronal Loop Model Heated by MHD Waves against Radiative Losses
in The Astrophysical Journal
De Pontieu B
(2022)
Probing the Physics of the Solar Atmosphere with the Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE). I. Coronal Heating
in The Astrophysical Journal
Sukarmadji A
(2024)
Transverse MHD Waves as Signatures of Braiding-induced Magnetic Reconnection in Coronal Loops
in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Antolin P
(2022)
Thermal Instability-Induced Fundamental Magnetic Field Strands in the Solar Corona
in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Sahin S
(2022)
Prevalence of Thermal Nonequilibrium over an Active Region
in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Sukarmadji A
(2022)
Observations of instability-driven nanojets
Description | Member of the Solar System Advisory Panel (SSAP) of STFC-UKRI |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Description | Automated detection of Nanojets with Machine Learning |
Amount | £817 (GBP) |
Organisation | UK Government Investments |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2022 |
End | 11/2022 |
Description | La production de matériel froid dans la couronne solaire comme traceur de la distribution spatio-temporelle du chauffage coronal (Coronal Monsoon) (PI: Clara Froment) |
Amount | € 2,500 (EUR) |
Organisation | National Center for Scientific Research (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS) |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | France |
Start | 05/2022 |
End | 06/2022 |
Description | ORCS: Oscillations in the Realistic Corona of the Sun |
Amount | kr 7,900,000 (NOK) |
Funding ID | 324523 |
Organisation | Research Council of Norway |
Sector | Public |
Country | Norway |
Start | 06/2021 |
End | 06/2025 |
Description | Observe Local Think Global: What Solar Observations Can Teach us about Multiphase Plasmas across Astrophysical Scales |
Amount | SFr. 24,000 (CHF) |
Organisation | International Space Science Institute (ISSI) |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | Switzerland |
Start | 03/2023 |
End | 07/2024 |
Title | Methods for disambiguating the hot and cool emission in astronomy instrument passbands |
Description | I have developed (and compared) several techniques that allow to identify the cool and hot emission from spectral lines within specific passbands of slit-jaw imaging devices of telescopes for solar physics. This has been applied, in particular, to the SDO and IRIS telescopes. This has a potential impact in the solar physics field since the question of disambiguating cool and hot emission is central to major open scientific questions in the field. |
Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
Year Produced | 2024 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | No impact yet (very early). Potentially, this will have an impact retrospectively (on the data that has been published from multiple instruments) and also for future instruments, such as MUSE and EUVST. |
Description | Collaboration on the EUVST Solar-C mission |
Organisation | Nagoya University |
Department | Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research |
Country | Japan |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Invitations to attend the Science Board meetings on the EUVST telescope, part of the Solar-C solar physics mission. This is a Japanese led mission to be launched in 2028. This collaboration is a first step towards becoming a co-investigator in the science team of EUVST. Within this project I have made forward modelling of numerical simulations performed by myself and in collaboration with others to identify the observational signatures of physical mechanisms that EUVST should be able to observe. |
Collaborator Contribution | This is a concerted effort to make sure that EUVST will be able to achieve the scientific goals that it set out to do. There is an instrument development part and a simulation part. The simulations team is composed of many people, and each has specific tasks involving forward modelling of numerical simulations. |
Impact | A paper is under preparation and will be submitted at the end of March 2024 to PASJ journal. |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | Collaboration with Computer Science & Computational Perceptualisation - sonification of solar research |
Organisation | Northumbria University |
Department | School of Computing Engineering and Information Science Northumbria |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | In this collaboration, I have partnered with Dr. Paul Vickers in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences to explore aspects of sonification and audification of my research in solar physics. We aim at both, public outreach and also impact on solar research. One aim is to find ways to convey to the wider public unique features of solar physics and astrophysics using our hearing sense rather than visually. The other major aim is to find ways to improve the way scientists do research by using our hearing senses. For this purpose, we will be using IKO - a special speaker system that allows a 3D spatialisation of sound. A first workshop was organised in the Fall 2021. |
Collaborator Contribution | Dr. Paul Vickers is an expert in Computer Science & Computational Perceptualisation. In particular, he is an expert in sonification and audification. |
Impact | None yet |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Collaboration with Dr Elena Khomenko - IAC |
Organisation | Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands |
Country | Spain |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I was invited for 1 week to collaborate on a research investigation in the subject of coronal rain modelling. Namely, the forward modelling of ambipolar effects in coronal rain dynamics. |
Collaborator Contribution | The simulations were provided by Dr Elena Khomenko and David Martínez-Gómez. |
Impact | None yet |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Collaboration with Dr. Clara Froment on Thermal Non-Equilibrium and Instability |
Organisation | University of Orleans |
Country | France |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | This collaboration targets the investigation of cool material in the solar atmosphere, particularly the phenomena of long-period intensity pulsations and coronal rain, both products of cooling. The physical processes behind these phenomena are believed to be thermal non-equilibrium (TNE) and thermal instability. Dr Clara Froment is an expert in TNE observations and modelling. I am an expert in thermal instability and coronal rain. |
Collaborator Contribution | Together with Clara, we have proposed an international team of researchers with the aim of investigating TNE and thermal instability not only on the Sun but also at much larger scales in the universe. We submitted a proposal for an ISSI team in 2020 and 2021 which were unsuccessful. We are now submitting again in 2022. We have also obtained funding (2500 EUR) for a meeting of a subset of the team from the Programme National PNST of CNRS/INSU co-funded by CNES and CEA. The title of the project is "La production de matériel froid dans la couronne solaire comme traceur de la distribution spatio-temporelle du chauffage coronal (Coronal Monsoon) (PI: Clara Froment)". |
Impact | 10.3389/fspas.2022.820116 |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Collaboration with Dr. Kohutova (RoCS, Oslo) |
Organisation | University of Oslo |
Department | Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics |
Country | Norway |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I am a co-I on a grant funded by the Research Council of Norway whose PI is Dr. Petra Kohutova of RoCS (University of Oslo, Norway) and is titled ORCS - "Oscillations in the Realistic Corona of the Sun". |
Collaborator Contribution | Dr. Kohutova will be analysing global multi-dimensional MHD simulations produced by the Bifrost code in order to investigate the wave phenomena. The results will be compared with solar observations. My role in this project is to provide support on a theoretical level. |
Impact | None yet |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Collaboration with FHNW on Machine Learning applied to coronal rain observations |
Organisation | FHNW, Switzerland |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | My main contribution to this collaboration is as science expert in the field of coronal rain. We are jointly developing and refining machine learning algorithms to automatically detect coronal rain in the solar atmosphere. The main data used for this purpose is open data coming from the IRIS satellite. |
Collaborator Contribution | My main partner in this collaboration is Dr. Lucia Kleint at FHNW. A student of hers, Mr. Brandon Panos is also participating. FHNW provides a repository for the IRIS data, which therefore can be accessed very rapidly and through which the developed algorithms can be applied and checked efficiently. Both Dr. Kleint and Mr. Panos are actively involved in the development of these algorithms. |
Impact | - No output yet |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Collaboration with LMSAL - solar mission proposal 'MUSE' |
Organisation | Lockheed Martin |
Department | Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory (LMSAL) |
Country | United States |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | I am part of the Science Team in the newly accepted MIDEX mission 'MUSE' to NASA, now in Phase B scheduled to launch in 2026. MUSE was accepted in February 2022. I contribute as a wave expert and numerical modelling expert to the mission. In particular, I forward model my numerical models of wave propagation in the solar atmosphere in order to establish the observational characteristics of wave heating that we need to look for at the expected resolution of MUSE. |
Collaborator Contribution | The Science team is composed of many experts in several topics of solar physics, including MHD waves, magnetic reconnection, solar observations, numerical simulations and instrumentation. The mission proposal is based at LMSAL but the science team gathers experts from many other international institutions. I am the only expert from Northumbria University. This proposal started with a SMEX proposal to NASA back in 2017. The SMEX proposal was not approved. In 2019 it was decided to upgrade the proposal to a MIDEX type, thereby starting a new partnership. The mission has now been approved (February 2022) and is in Phase B (launch in 2026). |
Impact | 10.3847/1538-4357/ab5b03 10.3847/1538-4357/ab263d 10.3847/1538-4357/ac4223 10.3847/1538-4357/ac4222 |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Collaboration with Slovak Academy of Sciences for SST observation campaign 2023 (SOLARNET) |
Organisation | Slovak Academy of Sciences |
Country | Slovakia |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | We have applied for SOLARNET funding to conduct solar observations at the SST in the 2023 campaign. SOLARNET provides travel and accommodation funding for up to 2 observers. I contributed to the writing of the proposal. |
Collaborator Contribution | This proposal is led by Julius Koza at SK. It also involves many other partners from other universities and countries. |
Impact | No outputs yet |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | Collaboration with UIB in SST observing campaign 2019 |
Organisation | University of the Balearic Islands |
Country | Spain |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | A jointly submitted application for observing time at the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST; in La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain) has been approved for the 2019 observing campaign. Our observing campaign will focus on observations of coronal rain with the SST, which is the primary scientific target of my fellowship. My main contribution to this collaboration is as scientific expert on the topic of coronal rain and also as expert in observations at the SST. I may be travelling to La Palma in August 2019 to jointly conduct the observations. |
Collaborator Contribution | This application falls under Spanish time for the telescope usage. As such, the PI of this proposal is Prof. Ramón Oliver from Departament de Física, Universitat de les Illes Balears. Although this particular application was submitted early in January 2019, my collaboration with UIB and in particular with Prof. Oliver had started in 2015 around the topic of coronal rain. For this particular application Prof. Oliver will be joining also with a Master student of his, which will help in the analysis of the observations. In addition, Dr. Dato Kuridze (Aberystwyth University) will also be joining and will contribute with his expertise in polarimetry. |
Impact | - Grant for 10 days observing time at the SST during August 2019 |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Collaboration with UIB on SST observing campaign 2020 |
Organisation | University of the Balearic Islands |
Country | Spain |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | A jointly submitted application for observing time at the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST; in La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain) has been approved for the 2020 and 2021 observing campaigns. Our observing campaign focus on observations of spicules and coronal rain with the SST. My main contribution to this collaboration is as scientific expert on the topic of coronal rain and also as expert in observations at the SST. I may be travelling to La Palma in August 2021 to jointly conduct the observations. |
Collaborator Contribution | This application falls under Spanish time for the telescope usage. As such, the PI of this proposal is Prof. Ramón Oliver from Departament de Física, Universitat de les Illes Balears. Although these applications were submitted early in January 2020 and January 2021, my collaboration with UIB and in particular with Prof. Oliver had started in 2015 around the topic of coronal rain and has now expanded to the topic of spicules. For this particular application Prof. Oliver will be joining also with a Master student of his, which will help in the analysis of the observations. In addition, Dr. Dato Kuridze (Aberystwyth University) will also be joining and will contribute with his expertise in polarimetry. |
Impact | DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038546 |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | SWIMMR Collaboration |
Organisation | Northumbria University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I am collaborating on the SWIMMR project (PI: Jonathan Rae at Northumbria University). I have helped updating documentation about the causes of Space Weather. |
Collaborator Contribution | This is an on-going program, primarily led by Prof. Rae. |
Impact | No outputs yet |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | Solar Orbiter/EUI Consortium |
Organisation | Royal Observatory of Belgium |
Country | Belgium |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I am now part of the Solar Orbiter/EUI Consortium. I was invited to be part of the scientific team in order to contribute to the analysis of EUI data based on my expertise in data analysis of solar observations and in numerical simulations of solar phenomena. The PI of this mission is David Berghmans (ROB) and co-PI is Frederic Auchère (IAS). |
Collaborator Contribution | The consortium is composed of many different institutions, and each includes many members. The contribution from each group ranges from the technical operations of the satellite and instrument to the science and analysis of the observations. |
Impact | First publication has been submitted to Astronomy & Astrophysics journal. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Space Science Review on MHD Kink waves in the solar atmosphere |
Organisation | University of Warwick |
Department | Department of Physics |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | This partnership aims at writing a series of scientific review papers on the subject of MHD waves in the solar atmosphere. I contribute as a wave expert on the numerical modelling and observational sides. This scientific reviews have all been submitted to the Space Science Reviews journal, which is a peer reviewed, scientific journal of space science. At present two of them have been published. |
Collaborator Contribution | The SSR review brings together several experts from different institutions worldwide. This collaboration started with a meeting in Beijing in October 2019 at the ISSI-BJ center (NAOC). |
Impact | Published papers: 10.1007/s11214-020-00770-y 10.1007/s11214-020-00761-z 10.1007/s11214-021-00847-2 10.1007/s11214-021-00849-0 Accepted: 2021arXiv211213577A |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | COSPAR 2021 Conference - Main Session Organiser |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | I organised a session on the major COSPAR conference (which attracts thousands of researchers worldwide) around the research topic on which my STFC grant is based on. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=877 |
Description | Interview in major Colombian newspaper |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | I was interviewed by a reporter of El Espectador, a major newspaper in Colombia, to talk about my career as solar scientist and also my recent publication in Nature Astronomy (10.1038/s41550-020-1199-8) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.elespectador.com/noticias/ciencia/el-patrick-antolin-descubrio-un-camino-para-resolver-e... |
Description | Interview for science podcast |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | I was interviewed in a Colombian science podcast ("Shot Estelar") to comment on solar research and in particular a recent publication on Nature Astronomy on which I am the lead author. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://soundcloud.com/shots-de-ciencia/shot-estelar-e11-un-gran-descubrimiento-solar |
Description | Interview in BBC on Nanojet discovery |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | I was interviewed by a BBC journalist to explain solar phenomena and in particular my recent discovery in Nature Astronomy (10.1038/s41550-020-1199-8) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-54476229 |
Description | Interview in Colombian Radio |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | I was interviewed in a Colombian Radio (Radio Caracol) to comment on solar research and in particular a recent publication on Nature Astronomy on which I am the lead author. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://caracol.com.co/programa/2020/09/22/6am_hoy_por_hoy/1600790854_725957.html |
Description | Interview in El Tiempo about Nanojets |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | I was interviewed by a reported from El Tiempo, a major Colombian newspaper, to talk about my career as a scientist and in particular my recent discovery published in Nature Astronomy (10.1038/s41550-020-1199-8). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.eltiempo.com/vida/ciencia/el-hallazgo-de-un-colombiano-que-ayudaria-a-resolver-un-enigma... |
Description | Los Andes University News |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | I was interviewed in "Nota Uniandina", a newsletter of Universidad de Los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia) to present my professional career and in particular my recent publication on Nature Astronomy (10.1038/s41550-020-1199-8). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://notauniandina.uniandes.edu.co/egresados/patrick-antolin-el-uniandino-detras-del-esclarecimie... |
Description | NASA press release |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | I collaborated with the NASA visual studio and press release officers in a press release linked to my recent publication in Nature Astronomy (10.1038/s41550-020-1199-8). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/nasa-s-iris-spots-nanojets-shining-light-on-heating-the-so... |
Description | NUSTEM Lecture |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | This is an outreach event organised by NUSTEM at Northumbria University, in which school students (Y11 to Y13) are invited to attend an evening lecture on a science topic. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Nature Astronomy Behind The Scenes blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | I wrote a small article in the "Behind The Scenes" section of Nature Astronomy Portfolio, to explain in layman words my publication in Nature Astronomy (10.1038/s41550-020-1199-8). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://astronomycommunity.nature.com/posts/nanojets-of-coronal-heating-bddd4d16-41b4-4b56-ad2b-fc4b... |
Description | Northumbria University press release |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | I collaborated with Northumbria University's public engagement staff in a press release linked to my recent publication in Nature Astronomy (10.1038/s41550-020-1199-8). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://newsroom.northumbria.ac.uk/pressreleases/reconnection-nanojets-in-the-solar-corona-a-breakth... |
Description | Podcast Interview in Ciencia Viral |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | I was interviewed in this Colombian podcast to present my research career and in particular my recent publication in Nature Astronomy (10.1038/s41550-020-1199-8) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=762232181240180&ref=watch_permalink |
Description | School Visit - St Bede's 6th Form |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | I gave a talk about my research at St Bede's 6th Form school, in collaboration with NUSTEM at Northumbria University. About 12 pupils and the teacher attended the talk. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Talk at Hotspur Primary School (Newcastle) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | I gave a presentation about my research to Year 5 pupils in Hotspur Primary School (Newcastle). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | WISA Conference organisation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | I organised (as Chair) the Waves and Instabilities in the Solar Atmosphere (WISA) conference at Northumbria University. This was an international conference, which attracted almost 100 participants from all over the world. This took place in June 20-23, 2023. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.uksolphys.org/conference/wisa-2023-meeting-northumbria/ |