SSALMON - The Solar Simulations for the Atacama Large Millimeter Observatory Network
Abstract
The Solar Simulations for the Atacama Large Millimeter Observatory Network (SSALMON) was initiated in 2014 in connection with two ALMA development studies. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is a powerful new tool, which can also observe the Sun at high spatial, temporal, and spectral resolution. The international SSALMONetwork aims at coordinating the further development of solar observing modes for ALMA and at promoting scientific opportunities for solar physics with particular focus on numerical simulations, which can provide important constraints for the observing modes and can aid the interpretation of future observations. The radiation detected by ALMA originates mostly in the solar chromosphere - a complex and dynamic layer between the photosphere and corona, which plays an important role in the transport of energy and matter and the heating of the outer layers of the solar atmosphere. Potential targets include active regions, prominences, quiet Sun regions, flares. Here, we give a brief overview over the network and potential science cases for future solar observations with ALMA.
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@article{arxiv.1502.05601,
title = {SSALMON - The Solar Simulations for the Atacama Large Millimeter Observatory Network},
author = {S. Wedemeyer and T. Bastian and R. Brajsa and M. Barta and H. Hudson and G. Fleishman and M. Loukitcheva and B. Fleck and E. Kontar and B. De Pontieu and S. Tiwari and Y. Kato and R. Soler and P. Yagoubov and J. H. Black and P. Antolin and S. Gunar and N. Labrosse and A. O. Benz and A. Nindos and M. Steffen and E. Scullion and J. G. Doyle and T. Zaqarashvili and A. Hanslmeier and V. M. Nakariakov and P. Heinzel and T. Ayres and M. Karlicky and the SSALMON Group},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.05601},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
15 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Advances in Solar Physics (special issue of Advances in Space Research, AdSR), proceedings of the 14th European Solar Physics Meeting (ESPM-14, Dublin, Ireland, September 2014); (resubmitted version after minor revision)