Solar News Items of Interest
http://solarnews.nso.edu/2010/20100216.txt
Chromospheric synoptic magnetograms from SOLIS
Topical Issue (TI) of Solar Physics: The Sun–Earth Connectio near Solar Minimum: Placing it into Context
COSPAR 2010: Special Session on Solar Spectral Irradiance Variations and Their Influence on the Earth’s Atmosphere
SH08.: Solving the coronal heating riddle: recent developments and …
From: Lucie Green – lmg@mssl.ucl.ac.uk
EIS science nugget
UCL-MSSL is pleased to announce a new Hinode EIS science nugget.
The nugget looks at the science behind the widths of emission line profiles and how they can be used as a plasma diagnostic.
http://msslxr.mssl.ucl.ac.uk:8080/SolarB/eisnuggets.jsp
Next month’s nugget is entitled “Interchange reconnection along a coronal …
From: Melanie.Illsley@stfc.ac.uk
Space Tech 2010 – Space Technology Symposium
10th March 2010
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell Science Innovation Campus
Updated programme
The Innovations Club and the ESA Technology Transfer Network is holding a Space Technology Symposium on the 10th March and invites you to register for this event. Registration details are below. …
From: Lyndsay Fletcher – lyndsay@astro.gla.ac.uk
Congratulations to Andrzej Fludra on becoming Head of Solar Group at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Richard Harrison, who held this position previously, remains in the group but will be focusing on his roles as Division Head of Space Physics and as Chief Scientist in the …
From: Melanie.Illsley@stfc.ac.uk
STFC Small Awards for public engagement
STFC are pleased to announce a closing date of the 15th April 2010 for its Small Award Scheme for projects in public engagement. Further information, including the notes for guidance and application form can be found on the Science in Society section of the …
From: Hugh Hudson – hhudson@ssl.berkeley.edu
New RHESSI Science Nugget
http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/Revisiting_the_SHH_and_SEP_Link
RHESSI confirms the statistical link between flare hard X-ray spectral evolution and the acceleration of solar energetic particles.
From: Valery Nakariakov V.Nakariakov@warwick.ac.uk
Nobeyama Radioheliograph (NoRH) operation extension
It is officially approved and announced by the NAOJ Director General on Feb 9 that the operation of the Nobeyama Radioheliograph (Japan) is extended to five years, till March 2015. Observations of the Sun with NoRH in the microwave band are intensively used …
SolarNews Items of Interest
http://solarnews.nso.edu/2010/20100201.txt
The Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Coronal Image Database
New book in Asteroseismology
Call for papers: AOGS2010 session ST10 “Space weather and space climate: coupling processes from the Sun to the Earth”
Call for papers: COSPAR Session D23-E33 “Multi-Spacecraft Observations and
Modeling of CMEs and Stream Interaction Regions”
COSPAR …
From: Mario Mark Bisi – Mario.Bisi@aber.ac.uk
Topical Issue (TI) of Solar Physics:
The Sun–Earth Connection near Solar Minimum: Placing it into Context
We solicit manuscripts on this general subject for inclusion in a Topical Issue (TI) of the journal Solar Physics that will be dedicated to the science of the Whole Heliosphere …
From: Hugh Hudson hhudson@ssl.berkeley.edu
New RHESSI Science Nugget
This Nugget asks an important question – can the early non-thermal phase of a solar flare, as found in the RHESSI data, be explained by Somov’s “Rainbow Reconnection Model”?
Panorama theme by Themocracy
