We are pleased to announce the release of a new EIS nugget by Jian Sun. This month we celebrate one year of the EIS flare catalogue and the dataset that EIS is collecting.

Please visit the nugget here:
http://msslxr.mssl.ucl.ac.uk:8080/SolarB/nuggets/nugget_2012feb.jsp

We welcome nugget contributions from the community.… continue to the full article

A re-interpretation of the famous SAD tadpoles: see
http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/Supra-Arcade_Downflows
(by Sabrina Savage and David McKenzie)

http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/Supra-Arcade_Downflows… continue to the full article

19. Quasi-biennial variations in helioseismic frequencies
by Anne-Marie Broomhall, W.J. Chaplin, Y. Elsworth,
University of Birmingham

BiSON data hints at mysterious goings on in the solar interior during the recent, unusual solar minimum.

http://www.uksolphys.org/?p=3666

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UKSP Nuggets are published on a monthly basis highlighting solar physics research in the UK.… continue to the full article

The flare EUV continua can now routinely be observed by SDO/EVE.
This Nugget evaluates their energy content for the first X-class flare of Cycle 24, SOL2011-02-15.

http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/Flare_Observations_of_the_EUV_Continua… continue to the full article

We are pleased to announce the release of a new EIS science nugget on a study into plasma outflows as a spectroscopic precursor to a CME. The nugget is by Deb Baker (MSSL-UCL).

To view the nugget please visit the webpage:

http://msslxr.mssl.ucl.ac.uk:8080/SolarB/nuggets/nugget_2012jan.jsp… continue to the full article

No Hard X-rays from Comet Lovejoy, an amazing sungrazer on 16-Dec-2011

http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/No_Hard_X-rays_from_Comet_Lovejoy… continue to the full article

18. Mega-tsunamis above the surface of the Sun
by Eamon Scullion, Robert Erdélyi, Victor Fedun, University of Sheffield and Gerry Doyle, Armagh Observatory

Acoustic wave transmission from photosphere to corona in spicules.

http://www.uksolphys.org/?p=3600

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UKSP Nuggets are published on a monthly basis highlighting solar physics research in the UK.… continue to the full article

We are pleased to announce the release of December’s EIS nugget. This month we take a look at the X-flare of September 24, 2011, that was observed by EIS. A lovely data-set was obtained which includes both slit and slot observations.… continue to the full article

Spatial distribution of X-ray polarization, and its implications. See http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/Modelling_spatially_resolved_X-ray_polarization

http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/RHESSI_Science_Nuggets… continue to the full article

“Slowly but surely towards the huge amount of flare energy II,” by S. Kolomanski and T. Mrozek. An analysis of the huge energies involved in loop-top sources in flares. See http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/Slowly_but_surely_towards_the_huge_amount_of_energy_II.

http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/Slowly_but_surely_towards_the_huge_amount_of_energy_II… continue to the full article