Introducing UKSP Nuggets, short articles highlighting solar physics research in the UK. This is modelled after Hugh Hudson’s Yohkoh Science Nuggets, which ran from 1997 to 2002, and the subsequent RHESSI Nuggets, which started in 2005. As Hugh puts it

a nugget is a lump, especially of native gold or other precious metal. We hope our science nuggets contain some precious substance but since they are written by working scientists, there may be rough spots.

If you would you like to author a nugget please contact us via the form here and you will be contacted by our Nugget editors. Remember the nugget needs to be short and succinct, we want a nugget not a mine.

The schedule of monthly nuggets for 2010 has been decided and will appear here over the summer. You can still submit for another nugget if you have something more pressing to present.

Other Nuggets: RHESSI, EIS, CESRA/radio.

1. Probing the 3D structure of the F-corona with STEREO/HI by Daniel Brown, University of Central Lancashire While primarily designed to study CMEs, the Heliospheric Imagers on STEREO are versatile enough to study other phenomena such as the F-corona. This nugget uses HI observations to investigate the 3D structure and alignment of the F-corona.