UK Solar Physics Newsletter
Philippa Browning & David Williams, Editors
July 1st 2014
Dear Colleagues,
Here are a few items which have come to our attention since the last
Newsletter.
You can find this newsletter also at the UKSP website:
http://www.uksolphys.org/news/last-15-days/
Dave ([log in to unmask])
Philippa ([log in to unmask])
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General News/UKSP Business:
o UKSP @ NAM
o UK solar missions website
o SunPy: Python for Solar Physics
Nuggets:
o RHESSI Science Nugget “Mysteries of Flare/CME Initiation”
o New UKSP Nugget: 48. Possible Evidence for Alfvenic Turbulence in
Coronal Loops
Meetings/Workshops/Summer Schools:
o 2nd SOLARNET School: Ground- and space-based solar instruments,
Tatranska Lomnica (Slovakia), October 5-16, 2014
o 2nd SOLARNET Workshop: “Methods in high resolution and synoptic solar
physics” & 2nd SPRING (Solar Physics Research Integrated Network
Group) meeting, Tatranska Lomnica (Slovakia), October 12-16, 2014
o Advance Notice: UKMHD 2015 meeting
Jobs/Studentships:
o An STFC PhD studentship in Space Plasma or Solar Physics Research
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UKSP @ NAM
from uksp_sec [June 30, 2014]
We’d like to say a big thank you to all those who helped make last week's
UKSP meeting at NAM a big success. The turn-out was particularly impressive
from our students, and the quality of the presentations was really
excellent. Meetings like this give us great hope for the future of our
discipline, and are a chance to meet the young and... more established,
alike.
Congratulations to Eon Jui Lee from St Andrews, who won the UKSP poster
prize. He wins the now-traditional Amazon voucher, and the invitation to
present his work in an upcoming UKSP Nugget. We'd also like to thank our
gracious judges, Sarah Matthews and Gary Verth, for taking the time to pore
over all the posters in the competition.
Those of you who follow @uksolarphysics on Twitter will have noticed that
there was a lot of activity on social media from within and around the
meeting, as well as from our colleagues who attended the meeting on solar
flares in honour of Zdenek Svestka. It's great to see such a lively presence
online by our community.
A report on the UKSP meeting will be sent out in due course, but thanks
once again to all who made last week so edifying and enjoyable.
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UK solar missions website
from Louise Harra [June 25, 2014]
Hi all,
As we discussed at the UKSP business lunch, here is the website that
collates the current and future solar missions. I know that some things are
missing so please e-mail any missing items with a weblink and contact
person and I’ll add them in. This weblink will also be directed to from the
UKSP site.
http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/~lkh/UKsolarmissions/mission-involvement.html
Louise
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SunPy: Python for Solar Physics
from Stuart Mumford [June 20, 2014]
The SunPy project would like to announce the release of its latest version
v0.5.0. SunPy is a, rapidly developing, Python package for obtaining,
visualising and analysing solar physics data. SunPy provides tools for
querying and downloading data from online services like the Virtual Solar
Observatory (VSO), the Heliophysics Event Knowledgebase (HEK) and other
sources of data such as the Joint Science Operations Center (JSOC) for SDO
data and other providers such as the GOES X-ray flux archive. The core of
SunPy is data types that hold data and metadata associated with that data.
These objects provide a consistent interface to different data sources,
allowing all data to be coordinate aware and have access to other metadata
and common methods. Also included in SunPy are utility functions for
physical coordinate transformations and commonly used constants and other
solar related helper functions. Finally, SunPy provides tools to visualise
and explore the data both interactively and statically in a
publication-ready fashion.
The SunPy library is built on and makes extensive use of the fantastic
Scientific Python ecosystem which extends the Python programming language
in a modular fashion to be able to perform almost any scientific computing
task. The main packages used by SunPy are Numpy, SciPy, matplotlib, Pandas
and Astropy. Recent and future versions of SunPy are including more and
deeper integration with the Astropy library for operations shared between
solar and other astronomical data.
SunPy is free and open-source software (BSD licence), and can be downloaded
from http://sunpy.org or via standard Python package installation methods.
Full installation instructions for installing SunPy and suggestions on how
to install the Scientific Python ecosystem on your computer can be found in
the SunPy installation documentation
http://docs.sunpy.org/en/stable/guide/installation.
For more information about SunPy, to get in contact or if you just fancy a
chat you can either look at http://sunpy.org/about, email
[log in to unmask] or join our IRC chat room #SunPy on freenode.net
(https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/#SunPy).
The SunPy library is community-developed and managed by the SunPy project
which is led by an elected board. The library currently contains
contributions from 34 people and all contributions are welcome, big or
small. The SunPy code and development makes use of GitHub a website for
social coding and collaboration on coding projects, you can find SunPy’s
GitHub presence here: http://github.com/sunpy/sunpy.
http://sunpy.org
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RHESSI Science Nugget “Mysteries of Flare/CME Initiation”
from Hugh Hudson [June 30, 2014]
No. 228, “Mysteries of Flare/CME Initiation,” by Shaun Bloomfield and Hugh
Hudson; nearby major flares can occur in pairs – but how?
See
http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/Mysteries_of_Flare/CME_Initiation
http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/RHESSI_Science_Nuggets
New UKSP Nugget: 48. Possible Evidence for Alfvenic Turbulence in Coronal
Loops
from Iain Hannah [June 20, 2014]
48. Possible Evidence for Alfvenic Turbulence in Coronal Loops by Ineke De
Moortel (University of St Andrews) High-frequency waves in loops contain
more energy than expected – are we seeing the onset of Alfvenic turbulence?
http://www.uksolphys.org/?p=8405
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UKSP Nuggets are published on a monthly basis highlighting solar physics
research led from the UK.
http://www.uksolphys.org/uksp-nuggets
Iain Hannah and Lyndsay Fletcher
http://www.uksolphys.org/?p=8405
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2nd SOLARNET School: Ground- and space- based solar instruments, Tatranska
Lomnica (Slovakia), October 5-16, 2014
from Jan Rybak [June 23, 2014]
“The 2nd SOLARNET School: “Ground- and space-based solar instruments” will
be organized in Tatranska Lomnica (Slovakia), October 5-16, 2014.
The school is dedicated to PhD students and novel post-doc researchers,
working in solar physics. The lectures will be carried out by experienced
scientists and give students knowledge on current and future ground- and
space- based solar instruments, observational strategies, post-focus
instrumentation and data acquisition. The hands-on sessions will be carried
out also at Lomnicky Stit Observatory on the Double Solar Coronagraph and
Coronal Multi-channel Polarimeter. There will be given information on the
European Solar Telescope (EST) project and on the FP7 SOLARNET project, as
well as lectures on complementary skills.
The School is supported by EC FP7 project “SOLARNET”.
Web page: http://www.astro.sk/SOLARNET_2ND_SCHOOL/
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2nd SOLARNET Workshop: “Methods in high resolution and synoptic solar
physics” and 2-nd SPRING (Solar Physics Research Integrated Network Group)
meeting, Tatranska Lomnica (Slovakia), October 12-16, 2014
from Jan Rybak [June 23, 2014]
The 2nd SOLARNET Workshop: “Methods in high resolution and synoptic solar
physics” and the 2-nd SPRING (Solar Physics Research Integrated Network
Group) meeting will be organized in Tatranska Lomnica (Slovakia) October
12-16, 2014.
The 2nd SOLARNET Workshop is dedicated to all scientists and students
working in solar physics. Modern synoptic solar physics is coming now more
close to high resolution solar physics. Synoptic observations need to cover
different spatial dimensions on the Sun from small areas up to the whole
Sun and with time resolution ranging from seconds to long periods over
several decades. Technical improvements, capability and sensitivity of the
detectors and post-focus instruments used or planned to be used at future
synoptic telescopes meet parameters of today’s high resolution solar
physics instrumentation. Also the methods used in high resolution solar
physics come to be used in synoptic solar physics. Thus the aim of the
workshop is bringing together “high resolution” and “synoptic” solar
physicists and also the Solar Physics Research Integrated Network Group
(SPRING) organized in SOLARNET dedicated to design a new ground-based
network of telescopes for full-disk synoptic observations of the Sun.
Both meetings are supported by the EU FP7 project “SOLARNET”
Web page: http://www.astro.sk/SOLARNET_2ND_WORKSHOP/
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Advance Notice: UKMHD 2015 meeting
from Gert Botha [June 30, 2014]
The 2015 UKMHD meeting will be hosted by the Solar Group at Northumbria
University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on Thursday 14th and Friday 15th May 2015.
Further details will follow closer to the date. We look forward to seeing
you for an interesting and enjoyable celebration of magnetohydrodynamics.
Gert Botha and the LOC.
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An STFC PhD studentship in Space Plasma or Solar Physics Research
from Viktor Fedun [June 25, 2014]
The Space Systems Laboratory (http://ssg.group.shef.ac.uk/ssg2013/index.htm)
in the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at the
University of Sheffield is a world leading centre in advanced
analytical/numerical modelling, analysis of high-resolution observations
obtained by cutting-edge ground and space based instruments, shock physics
and space weather prediction. It is actively involved in several current
missions, such as the European Space Agency’s Venus Express and Cluster
missions.
We are looking for a bright and motivated UK student with a minimum of a
2:1 degree in Physics or a relevant subject (e.g. Aerospace or Systems
Engineering) to study for a PhD within the group. The successful applicant
will receive a full scholarship for three years which will cover fees and
an annual maintenance allowance of £13,863.
There are several topics for potential study:
* Shock physics (including planetary and interplanetary shocks)
* Plasma processes related to atmospheric loss at Venus
* Space weather
* General MHD wave theory with astrophysical applications
* Heating of the solar atmosphere: MHD waves, jets, etc.
* Novel ground-based and satellite observations of the Sun-Earth system
* Sun-Earth data analysis
* Energy transfer mechanisms in the Sun-Earth system
APPLICATIONS WILL ONLY BE CONSIDERED FROM UK STUDENTS (or students who
qualify for equivalent UK status as detailed by STFC
http://www.stfc.ac.uk/1512.aspx)
All applications should be made directly through the central University of
Sheffield application portal: http://www.shef.ac.uk/postgraduate/online
The DEADLINE for applications is 31st August 2014
For further information please contact Dr Simon Pope ([log in to unmask])
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Please see:
http://solarnews.nso.edu/current.html
for the latest SPD Newsletter.
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