UK Solar Physics Newsletter
Philippa Browning & Iain Hannah, Editors
July 15th 2016
Dear Colleagues,
Here are a few items which have come to our attention since the last Newsletter.
You can find this news also at the UKSP website:
http://www.uksolphys.org/news/last-15-days/
or the newsletter in full in our JISCMail archive:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/uksp
Iain ([log in to unmask])
Philippa ([log in to unmask])
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General News/UKSP Business:
- UKSP Council nominations/elections
- EU inquiry: evidence for RAS
- New Solar Flare Finder tool available in SSWIDL
- F-CHROMA: Availability of ground-based flare datasets
- RCUK and ORCID
Meetings/Workshops/Summer Schools:
- Call for abstracts: Fall AGU 2016, Dec. 12-16, SH013 “Organizing and Understanding Solar and Heliospheric Data for Discovery”
- International Astronomical Union Symposium 327: Abstract Submission Deadline
- ESPM15 – Early Announcement
- Abstracts Due: * Fri., July 15 * SDO 2016 — Burlington, VT
- STFC Introductory Summer School in Solar System Plasma Physics 2016
- The first UK Solar Orbiter working group
- Call for Abstracts. Session SH027, AGU Fall Meeting 2016, 12 – 16 December 2016, San Francisco, USA
- AGU 2016 – Snow Flakes in the Oven – Cool Prominences and Coronal Rain in the Hot Solar Corona
- 2017 IAU Symposium “Space Weather of the Heliosphere”: 17-21 July 2017
- Fall AGU – SH020: Sun-to-Earth Evolution and Characteristics of Geo-Effective Solar Eruptions
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General News/UKSP Business
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UKSP Council nominations/elections
form Iain Hannah [July 15, 2016]
A reminder the we are looking for nominations for all positions on the UKSP council. There are vacancies for: Chair, Deputy Chair and ordinary members - Permanent academics (4), Postdocs (2) and PhD student (1)
Nominations will close on July 29th. Email nominations to [log in to unmask] AND [log in to unmask] Candidates should get two colleagues to nominate them and also need to send a brief motivation statement and photo.
The e-voting period will be August 1st to 14th with details to follow.
Please start considering nominations now: we need people from a wide range of institutions.
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EU inquiry: evidence for RAS
form Iain Hannah [July 15, 2016]
A reminder for RAS fellows that Robert Massey is drafting the RAS's response to the Select Committee inquiry on the impact of leaving the EU for UK science and research:
http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/science-and-technology-committee/news-parliament-2015/leaving-the-eu-inquiry-launch-16-17/
Robert is looking for comments regarding the effect of withdrawl from the EU on our research by the end of July. Please contact him directly at Dr Robert Massey
Deputy Executive Director
Royal Astronomical Society
Tel: +44 (0)20 7292 3979
Mob: +44 (0)7802 877 699
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New Solar Flare Finder tool available in SSWIDL
from Ryan Milligan [July 14, 2016]
Our current fleet of space-based solar observatories offer us a wealth of opportunities to study solar flares over a range of wavelengths, and the greatest advances in our understanding of flare physics often come from coordinated observations between different instruments. However, finding or keeping track of which flares have been observed by specific combinations of instruments can be cumbersome and time consuming. To alleviate this issue, and provide access to a broader range of flaring events observed by GOES, RHESSI, Hinode (EIS, SOT, and XRT), SDO/EVE (MEGS-A and MEGS-B), and IRIS, a new interface has been developed and incorporated into SSWIDL. After updating your SSWIDL directory, simply type IDL> solar_flare_finder to bring up the widget. After selecting a time range (it defaults to the beginning of the SDO mission to the present day), and which combination of instruments you require to address a given science question, along with options for GOES class, maximum energy observed by RHESSI, and flare location (disk or limb), etc, click the Search button. This will return a list of flares that conform to your search criteria. Clicking on a given flare in this list will call up a plot that containing 1) the GOES X-ray lightcurves with the timing of your chosen observations overlaid, 2) the RHESSI lightcurves up to the maximum recorded energy, and 3) a RHESSI full-disk quicklook image with the fields of view of the different instruments overlaid. The option exists to also download a copy of this .png file to your current working directory, or an IDL .sav file containing the metadata used in generating the plots.
These plots are also accessible via the RHESSI browser (http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/browser/) for flares observed by RHESSI since the launch of SDO. Check the box marked “Cross-Mission Synoptic”, and expand it to include the “Hinode/EVE/IRIS” check box. Future improvements to this service will include adding flares that were not observed by RHESSI, adding additional instruments (e.g. Fermi, NoRH, GOES/EUVS, etc), and direct access to the data itself. Please address any questions, comments or requests to [log in to unmask] Thanks to Kim Tolbert for her help with designing the widget, Albert Shih for incorporating the plots into the RHESSI browser, and Dominic Zarro for help with the Hinode/EIS software.
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F-CHROMA: Availability of ground-based flare datasets
from Mihalis Mathioudakis [July 9, 2016]
The F-CHROMA consortium would like to announce the availability of a large number of solar flare datasets, obtained from ground-based solar facilities during the two most recent solar cycles. A few of these datasets are currently available online through a simple wiki interface, and more will be made available in the next months. All the others sets can be obtained by contacting the F-CHROMA partners. For each flare entry links to corresponding space-based observations are also provided.
https://star.pst.qub.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php/public/solarflares/start
http://www.fchroma.org/
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RCUK and ORCID
from Dave Godfrey [July 6, 2016]
RCUK have recently implemented changes to the Je-S System to enable ORCID IDs to be connected to a user’s account or to create one via Je-S if they don’t already have one. An ORCID ID is a unique string of numbers (a digital identifier) that distinguishes a researcher. ORCID offers a platform for researchers to capture scholarly activities throughout their career even if they change name, publish under different variations of a name, move institutions, or switch fields. This helps get exposure and recognition for work. Increasingly it will also be a tool to link and re-use research information unambiguously across multiple systems whether that’s for funders, publishers or the researcher’s organisation.
Further information can be found at the following links:
http://blogs.rcuk.ac.uk/2016/05/23/researchers-can-now-create-or-connect-their-orcid-identifier-in-the-research-councils-grants-system-je-s/
http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/media/news/160523/
The Research Councils are currently working on development of a replacement system for Je-S and capture/usage of the ORCID ID will also be part of this.
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Meetings/Workshops/Summer Schools
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Call for abstracts: Fall AGU 2016, Dec. 12-16, San Francisco, CA, Session SH013 “Organizing and Understanding Solar and Heliospheric Data for Discovery”
from Jack Ireland [July 14, 2016]
Dear Colleagues,
You are invited to submit abstracts to the 2016 Fall AGU session
“Organizing and Understanding Solar and Heliospheric Data for
Discovery” (description below). Abstracts may be submitted here
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session13558
The abstract submission deadline is 3 August 2016 11.59pm EDT.
Session Description:
The Sun influences the Earth through a complex set of interactions
across interplanetary space. The behavior of this system is measured
by many different instruments that produce many varied data. In the
near future, the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope will produce data at
rates exceeding the Solar Dynamics Observatory, and Solar Probe Plus
and Solar Orbiter will bring entirely new perspectives on the
Sun-Earth system. These disparate data are essentially different views
of the same Sun-Earth system. Maximizing the scientific output from
these variegated data is the key to progress, and the subject of this
session. We solicit contributions covering the following topics: –
automated solar feature recognition and tracking – cloud computing in
support of solar big data analysis – data/knowledge visualization and
discovery – efficient spatio-temporal data querying – machine learning
from solar data – spatio-temporal pattern mining – storage of, and
access to big data repositories.
Conveners: Jack Ireland (NASA GSFC/ADNET Systems, Inc) and Rafal Angryk (Georgia State University, US)
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session13558
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International Astronomical Union Symposium 327: Abstract Submission Deadline
from Santiago Vargas Domínguez [July 13, 2016]
IAUS 327: Fine Structure and Dynamics of the Solar Atmosphere
Oct. 9-14, 2016 Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
Abstract Deadline: July 20
International Astronomical Union Symposium 327 (IAUS327) on “Fine Scale and Dynamics of the Solar Atmosphere”, which will be held at Universidad de Cartagena in Colombia, October 9-14, 2016.
To submit your abstract, register, or review the science program details, please visit our website: http://iaus327.unal.edu.co
Abstracts are solicited for oral/poster contributions describing solar research for the following sessions:
Session 2: Advances in high-resolution solar observations – I
Session 3: Advances in high-resolution solar observations – II
Session 4: Energy, mass and magnetic flux transport between the convection zone and the outer solar atmosphere – I
Session 5: Energy, mass and magnetic flux transport between the convection zone and the outer solar atmosphere – II
Session 6: Multi-scale magnetic reconnection: observations and theories
Session 7: Wave phenomena and atmospheric dynamics
Session 8: Fine structure and dynamics of active regions and sunspots – I
Session 9: Fine structure and dynamics of active regions and sunspots – II
Session 10: Magnetic structure and dynamics of coronal holes and solar wind
Session 11: Energy release and explosive events at the finest spatial and temporal scales
Session 12: Role of small-scale structures in the chromosphere-corona heating
Session 13: Fine-structure of solar flares
Session 14: Solar-stellar connections
Session 15: Future directions
Session 16: High energies – fine structure (Radio, X and gamma rays)
The scientific goal of this symposium is to discuss recent results on the processes shaping the structure of the solar atmosphere and driving plasma eruptions and explosive events.
Confirmed Speakers:
S. Solanki, A. Asensio, M. Carlsson, R. Centeno, J. Martínez-Sykora, J. Qiu, K. Shibata, T. Pereira, A. Winebarger, F. Rubio da Costa, C. Xia, T. Van Doorsselaere, S. Bale, L. Glesener
Chair of Scientific Organising Committee:
Santiago Vargas Domínguez (OAN, Universidad Nacional de Colombia), Alexander Kosovichev (NJIT, USA), Juan Carlos Martínez Oliver’s (SSL, UC Berkeley, USA)., Patrick Antolin (NAOJ, Japan & University of St Andrews UK), Louise Harra (MSSL, UK), Cristina Mandrini (CONICET, Argentina).
International Scientific Organising Committee
Laura Balmaceda (Argentina), Luis Ramon Bellot Rubio (Spain) , Michele Bianda (Switzerland), Juan Camilo Buitrago-Casas (USA), Mark Cheung (USA) Ineke De Moortel (UK), Sirajul Hasan (India), Ryoko Ishikawa (Japan), Lucia Kleint (Switzerland), Valentin Martínez Pillet (USA) Rob Rutten (Netherlands), Natalia Schukina (Ukraine), Brigitte Schmieder (France), Oskar Steiner (Germany), Mike Wheatland (Australia), Jingxiu Wang (China).
For questions, contact: Santiago Vargas Domínguez [log in to unmask]
We are looking forward to seeing you in Cartagena de Indias !
http://iaus327.unal.edu.co
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ESPM15 – Early Announcement
from Istvan Ballai [July 11, 2016]
Dear Colleagues,
It is my pleasure to announce that the 15th European Solar Physics Meeting will be held in Budapest (Hungary), during the week of 04-08 September, 2017. Some preliminary information about the meeting can be found at http://astro.elte.hu/ESPM-15/
Further announcements will be made in due course.
Best wishes
Istvan Ballai & Emese Forgacs-Dajka
(On behalf of the Local Organising Committee)
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Abstracts Due: * Fri., July 15 * SDO 2016 — Burlington, VT
from W. Dean Pesnell [July 8, 2016]
SDO 2016: Unraveling the Sun’s Complexity
Oct. 17-21, 2016 * Burlington, VT
Living With a Star’s Solar Dynamics Observatory invites you to its 2016 Science Workshop “SDO 2016: Unraveling the Sun’s Complexity.” We have an excellent program and we hope you will participate as a presenter. Submit your abstract to one of eight session by Friday, July 15. Multiple abstracts are allowed, but only one oral presentation per person. With a great science program and Vermont’s beautiful fall foliage in mid-October, we hope you make plans to join us. Submit your abstract today!
SDO 2016 Important Dates:
• Abstracts Due: ** Friday, July 15 **
• Early Registration & Hotel Reservation: September 16
Sincerely,
The Scientific Organizing Committee for SDO 2016:
W. Dean Pesnell (chair), Charles Baldner, Mark Cheung, Frank Eparvier, Meng Jin, Aimee Norton, and Barbara Thompson
http://SDO2016.lws-sdo-workshops.org
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STFC Introductory Summer School in Solar System Plasma Physics 2016
from Ineke De Moortel [July 8, 2016]
The 2016 Introductory Summer School in Solar System Physics will be hosted by the Solar and Magnetospheric Theory Group at the University of St Andrews.
The School’s programme of lectures can be found at
http://www-solar.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~icsspp16/schedule.html
and is recommended for students starting their PhD in Solar System Physics.
Registration is now open and details can be found at
http://www-solar.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~icsspp16/registration.html
*** Final deadline for Registration: 22nd July 2016. ***
Full funding is available, on a first-come first-served basis, for STFC-supported PhD students.
http://www-solar.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~icsspp16/index.html
http://www-solar.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~icsspp16/index.html
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The first UK Solar Orbiter working group
from Louise Harra [July 7, 2016]
UK Solar Orbiter Working Group
We are holding a meeting on the 23 September at the RAS from
10:00-16:00 in order
to discuss how we will observe with the different instrument on Solar
Orbiter to answer the science goals. This concept is derived from the
Uk Solar Missions forum in January this year, and we aim that this
will be a regular meeting to prepare the community for analysing Solar
Orbiter data and ensuring we obtain input on how best to optimise
observing with the instruments.
Yannis Zouganelis (Solar Orbiter Deputy Project Scientist) has kindly
offered to attend and will provide us with an overview on How Solar
Orbiter will observe.
A lot of work has already been carried out already which will give you
a flavour of what can be achieved and this is found on:
https://issues.cosmos.esa.int/solarorbiterwiki/display/SOSP/Solar+Orbiter+detailed+science+objectives
We aim for the meeting to have as much discussion as possible.
Everyone is welcome.
Louise, Andrjez, Chris, Tim
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Call for Abstracts. Session SH027, AGU Fall Meeting 2016, 12 – 16 December 2016, San Francisco, USA
from Viktor Fedun [July 5, 2016]
Dear Colleagues
I would like to draw your attention to the SH027 session: ‘Waves, Oscillations, and Instabilities in Solar and Heliospheric Plasma Structures’ in the framework of AGU Fall Meeting.
The Annual AGU meeting will take place in San Francisco, 12-16 December 2016. Further details regarding abstract submission, registration, accommodation and relevant deadlines can be found on the meeting website:
https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/
Important! Early Abstract Submission Deadline is 27 July 2016.
SH027: ‘Waves, Oscillations, and Instabilities in Solar and Heliospheric Plasma Structures’
Conveners:
Shreekrishna Tripathi, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Leon Ofman, CUA/NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Irina Kitiashvili, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
Viktor Fedun, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Session Description
Space and ground-based observations have detected a variety of low-frequency plasma waves, oscillations, and instabilities (e.g., Alfven waves, Fast/Slow/EUV waves, global-kink-mode, and sausage-mode) in solar and heliospheric magnetoplasma structures that exist across a wide range of spatio-temporal scales (e.g., small flux- ropes in the surface-granulation-pattern, spicules, prominences, coronal loops). Laboratory plasma experiments have made important contributions in developing models that can accurately predict propagation, damping, and growth-rate of plasma waves and instabilities. Development of similar models for solar plasma structures can help us fully utilize diagnostic capabilities of these waves and understand their role in energy transport on the Sun. This session provides a platform to bring together experts in remote observational analysis, numerical/analytical modeling, and experimental/theoretical plasma physics. We especially welcome contributions based on recent (SDO, Hinode, IRIS, WIND, ACE, Helios, Cluster, and MMS) and planning for next generation observational facilities (DKIST, EST, COSMO, Solar-Orbiter, and Solar-Probe plus).
With my Best Regards
Viktor Fedun
https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/
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AGU 2016 – Snow Flakes in the Oven – Cool Prominences and Coronal Rain in the Hot Solar Corona
from Patrick Antolin [July 4, 2016]
Call for abstracts
AGU Fall Meeting,
Session SH017:
Snow Flakes in the Oven – Cool Prominences and Coronal Rain in the Hot Solar Corona
Session ID#: 13099
Session Description:
The solar corona is hot and tenuous. Yet, it hosts a variety of mysteriously cool and dense plasma structures, primarily in two distinct forms – prominences and coronal rain. Their importance has been increasingly recognized, especially with the advent of the IRIS mission since 2013. They can involve a radiative cooling instability that causes hot coronal mass to condense and fall back to the chromosphere, closing the loop of the corona-chromosphere mass cycle and providing implications for the fundamental coronal heating problem. Some prominences form the cores of CMEs that are major drivers of space-weather disturbances. We invite contributions on such topics as observational and modeling investigations of the formation and dynamics of prominences and coronal rain, their magnetic and plasma environments, their relevant physical processes such as ion-neutral coupling and magnetic reconnection in partially ionized plasmas, their diagnostic applications, and their space-weather consequences and predictive potential.
Primary Convener: Wei Liu, Bay Area Environmental Research Institute at Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA, United States
Conveners: Patrick Antolin, University of St Andrews, UK and Thomas E Berger, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session13099
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2017 IAU Symposium “Space Weather of the Heliosphere”: 17-21 July 2017
from Claire Foullon [July 2, 2016]
We are pleased to announce that the 2017 IAU Symposium 335 “Space Weather of the Heliosphere: Processes and Forecasts”, will be held at the University of Exeter, Devon, UK, from the 17th to the 21st of July 2017. We look forward to welcoming you. A first announcement with more details will follow in September 2016.
In the meantime, please save the date to your diary, bookmark and register your interest at www.exeter.ac.uk/iaus335.
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Fall AGU – SH020: Sun-to-Earth Evolution and Characteristics of Geo-Effective Solar Eruptions
from Miho Janvier [July 1, 2016]
We are pleased to invite abstract submissions for the following Solar and Heliospheric Physics session at this year’s AGU meeting in San Francisco (12-16 December): “Sun-to-Earth Evolution and Characteristics of Geo-Effective Solar Eruptions”
This session will investigate the conditions under which the most geo-effective coronal mass ejections (CMEs) form and propagate in the corona and interplanetary space. Abstracts are invited that discuss topics such as the identification and characterization of the solar source region of the eruption, preconditioning of the corona and heliosphere for CME propagation, interactions of CMEs with the ambient solar wind structures and other CMEs, transformation of the CME flux rope, and geo-effective plasma and magnetic field characteristics at the Earth. Contributions that discuss multi-point observations and modeling that address these questions are especially welcome.
Abstract submission deadline: Wednesday, 3 August 23:59 EDT (Early Submission Deadline: 27 July, 11:59 P.M. EDT Submit early for your chance to be a Fall Meeting VIP)
Abstract submission link at: http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/abstract-submissions/
The session conveners: Ying D. Liu (NSSC National Space Science Center), Emilia Kilpua (University of Helsinki), Noé Lugaz (University of New Hampshire), Miho Janvier (Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale).
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