http://solarnews.nso.edu/2010/20100602.txt

Web-based Online Catalog of Solar Limb Prominences (SLIPCAT)

The 2013 – 2022 NRC Decadal Survey in Solar and Space Physics

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From: Nicolas Labrosse – n.labrosse@physics.gla.ac.uk

Physics of Solar Prominences: Two review papers

We are pleased to announce the publication by Space Science Reviews of a special issue dedicated to solar prominence physics (Space Science Reviews: Volume 151, Issue 4 2010)

http://www.springerlink.com/content/w72727487478/?p=06434ef68acb406faafa8729e5a32271&pi=0

Two review papers present our current understanding and the outstanding issues in …

From: Nicolas Labrosse – n.labrosse@physics.gla.ac.uk

Sixth Triennial Special Issue – “Images in Plasma Science”

http://uigelz.eecs.umich.edu/tps-images/index.html

The IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science is pleased to announce the 6th Triennial Special Issue on “Images in Plasma Science” to be published August 2011.

Compelling images convey vast amounts of data as well as often being works …

From: Lyndsay Fletcher – lyndsay@astro.gla.ac.uk

Prof George Gelfreikh

I am passing on this sad news from Ludwig Klein, Chair of CESRA (Community of European Solar Radio Astronomers)

Lyndsay.

Dear CESRA colleagues,

Alexander Stepanov informed me that on June 4, 2010, Professor George Gelfreikh passed away. Professor Gelfreikh was a remarkable colleague in several respects. An …

From : Hugh Hudson – hhudson@ssl.berkeley.edu

New RHESSI Science Nugget

http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/RHESSI_Science_Nuggets

Can optical spectra of stellar flares be compared with images of solar flares?

http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/Kernels_and_Ribbons

“Kernels and Ribbons” by Jiong Qiu. There is a new clue to distinguishing UV ribbons and hard X-ray footpoints in a major flare, discovered during a revisit to …

From: Lucie Green – lmg@mssl.ucl.ac.uk

New Hinode EIS science nugget

UCL-MSSL is pleased to announce a new Hinode EIS science nugget – “Velocity Characteristics of Evaporated Plasma” by Ryan Milligan.

The nugget looks at chromospheric evaporation during a GOES C1.1 class flare that occurred on 14 December 2007.

http://msslxr.mssl.ucl.ac.uk:8080/SolarB/eisnuggets.jsp

Next month’s nugget is entitled …

From: Julie Stern – solarstudentnews@aol.com

Issue 2 of the Coronal Courant (Student Newsletter)

Hello,

Issue 2 of The Coronal Courant, a newsletter for students (which grew into a magazine), has been released and can be retrieved here:

http://www.lmsal.com/~zoe/student_news/current_studentnews.pdf

Julie Stern
Editor-in-Chief
solarstudentnews@aol.com

From: Hugh Hudson – hhudson@ssl.berkeley.edu

New RHESSI Science Nugget

http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/RHESSI%27s_Anneal_Adventure

An operations anomaly leads to very successful improvements in RHESSI’s performance.

From: Melanie.Illsley@stfc.ac.uk

Review of STFC Grant Funding mechanisms

STFC has decided to review how its delivers its support for the exploitation of facilities and experiments in the particle physics, astronomy, space and nuclear physics areas (including associated theoretical activity) in universities and other research groups. The review is a response to …

From: David Berghmans – david.berghmans@sidc.be

SWAP & LYRA data release and PROBA2 Guest Investigator Program

http://proba2.sidc.be

The ESA micro-satellite PROBA2 was launched last November with two solar instruments onboard: SWAP, an EUV imager, and LYRA, a UV radiometer. SWAP and LYRA have an open data policy. We are happy to announce the …