The study of the Sun, or solar physics, is a vibrant field of research in the UK. Over 150 UK scientists are actively investigating the dynamic evolution of our closest star using numerical, computational and observational techniques.
The UK Solar Physics community (UKSP) is a Specialist Scientific Group affiliated to the Royal Astronomical Society. This website serves as a repository of information for the UKSP community, with community news, information about national and international conferences, employment and study opportunities, solar missions, and computing resources.
We distribute a newsletter of the latest Solar Physics and related news twice a month (1st and 15th). To sign up to the emailing list or to view the archive of newsletters please go here. These news items are also reproduced on this website and can be viewed as a summary of the last 15days, last 32days or the whole archive. To submit information to be posted to the website and to be included in the newsletter please go to the Submit News page.
Follow our twitter feed: @uksolarphysics.
Or follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/uksolphys/ .
If there are any queries about UKSP, please contact the Chairperson or Deputy Chairperson.
Latest News Updates
General News/UKSP Business:
- The next UK-SOSS talk will be held on 12th of November, 10:00 (UK time)
from Jiajia Liu [October 28, 2020] - STFC research into early career experiences of public engagement and outreach
from Natasha Jeffrey [October 26, 2020] - ESPD Media of the Month: October 2020
from Natasha Jeffrey [October 15, 2020] - IAU PhD Prize
from Natasha Jeffrey [October 15, 2020]
Nuggets:
- New UKSP Nugget #114
from Iain Hannah [October 28, 2020] - New Hinode EIS Nugget
from Deb Baker [October 19, 2020] - RHESSI Nuggets in September 2020
from Hugh Hudson [October 19, 2020]
Meetings/Workshops/Summer Schools:
- SOLARNET’s 2nd Forum on Telescopes & Databases
from Tirtha Som [October 28, 2020] - MHD Coronal Seismology 2020: Twenty Years of Probing the Sun’s Corona with MHD Waves (8-11 Dec 2020)
from Dmitrii Kolotkov [October 26, 2020] - NAM2021 call for session proposals
from Natasha Jeffrey [October 15, 2020] - RAS discussion meeting: Modelling and observing the lower solar atmosphere: registration now open, abstract extension
from Ben Snow [October 14, 2020]
Jobs/Studentships:
- PhD position at the University of Geneva, Switzerland
from Lucia Kleint [October 19, 2020]
UKSP Nuggets:
UKSP Nuggets highlight the latest solar physics research led from the UK:
- 114. Hidden Coronal Loop Strands within Hi-C 2.1 Data [October 2020]
- 113. Probing small-scale solar magnetic fields [September 2020]
- 112. Particle acceleration and transport in CME eruptions [August 2020]
- 111. Increasing occurrence of inverted magnetic fields from 0.3 to 1 au [July 2020]
- 110. Flare/CME Cartoons [June 2020]
- 109. Kink oscillations of sigmoid coronal loops [May 2020]
- 108. Cool and hot emission in a recurring active region jet [February 2020]