We would like to draw your attention to the ST15 session: ‘MHD Waves and Instabilities in the Solar Atmosphere: Identification and Modelling’ in the framework of Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) conference. The 16th Annual AOGS will take place in Singapore, 28 July-02 August 2019.… continue to the full article
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Nordic Optical Telescope: OPTICON Call for proposals
The OPTICON common call for EU supported access to telescopes in semester 2019B (1 October 2019 – 1 April 2020) is open. It will close on 28 February 2019 at 23.59UT exactly.
The NORDIC OPTICAL TELESCOPE offers a total of 25 nights per semester.… continue to the full article
Software in Solar Physics Survey
The SunPy Project would like to conduct a survey about software use in solar physics. This survey is based on a similar one conducted by Ivelina Momcheva and Erik Tollerud in 2015, who surveyed 1142 astronomers about software use in astrophysics (https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.03989).… continue to the full article
Influencing the future ESA archives (including for Solar Orbiter).
I’d like to briefly discuss an opportunity for you to influence the way you will be able to access data in the future from ESA. I am a member of the ESA Heliophysics Archives User Group (HAUS). This was all new to me as I personally hadn’t used ESA archives before but Solar Orbiter data will be available from them (http://soardev.esac.esa.int/soar-beta/#home).… continue to the full article
pfsspy: a new python package for PFSS calculations
pfsspy, a new python package for computing Potential Field Source Solutions, has just had its first release (0.1). This package builds on code written by Anthony Yeates (https://github.com/antyeates1983/pfss) to provide an accessible, well documented, and freely available code for calculating PFSS solutions in python.… continue to the full article
Congratulations
The UKSP council would like to offer their congratulations to our colleagues selected by Elsevier as “most valued reviewers in 2018”:
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/new-astronomy/reviewers/thank-you-reviewers-newast-14… continue to the full article
Special issue “Advances in Solar Physics” – published
The special issue “Advances in Solar Physics” inspired by the last European Solar Physics meeting is published :
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/advances-in-space-research/vol/63/issue/4
The Guest Editors are grateful to all the authors for their valuable time and efforts, without which the publication of this issue would have been impossible, and we congratulate them for the acceptance of their manuscripts.… continue to the full article
SSI/ISSI-BJ Joint Call for Proposals 2019 for International Teams in Space and Earth Sciences
The International Space Science Institute (ISSI) in Bern, Switzerland, and ISSI-BJ in Beijing, China, invite proposals for establishing International Teams to conduct on its premises research activities in Space Sciences, based on the
interdisciplinary analysis and evaluation of data from spacecraft and possible integration with ground data and theoretical models.… continue to the full article
UK access to the Swedish Solar Telescope during the 2019 Observing Season
We are pleased to announce the availability of observing time on the Swedish Solar Telescope (SST) for proposals with a UK-based PI, during the 2019 observing season. The availability of this time has been made possible through funding from STFC.
Observations will be undertaken on behalf of PIs in service mode/queue scheduling by two observers with considerable experience in SST operations and instrumentation.… continue to the full article
European Solar Physics Division (ESPD) 2019 PhD Thesis and Early Career Researcher Prizes – Upcoming deadline
European Solar Physics Division (ESPD) 2019 PhD Thesis and Early Career Researcher Prizes – Upcoming deadline
Since 2017, the European Solar Physics Division (ESPD) of the European Physical Society (EPS) awards two prizes yearly: the ESPD PhD Thesis Prize and the ESPD Early Career Researcher (Postdoc) Prize.… continue to the full article