ALMA provides the necessary spatial, temporal and spectral resolution to explore central questions in contemporary solar physics with potentially far-reaching implications for stellar atmospheres and plasma physics. It can uniquely constraint the thermal and magnetic field structure in the solar chromosphere with measurements that are highly complementary to simultaneous observations with other ground-based and space-borne instruments. Here, we highlight selected science cases.
@article{arxiv.1502.06397,
title = {Solar ALMA Observations - A new view of our host star},
author = {Sven Wedemeyer and Tim Bastian and Roman Brajsa and Miroslav Barta and Masumi Shimojo and Antonio Hales and Pavel Yagoubov and Hugh Hudson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.06397},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
2 pages, 1 figure; to appear in ASP Conference Series, proceedings of "Revolution in Astronomy with ALMA: The 3rd year" (Tokyo, Japan, December 2014), eds. D. Iono, A. Wootten, L. Testi (submitted version)