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Solar radio emission, especially at metre-wavelengths, is well known to vary over small spectral ($\lesssim$100\,kHz) and temporal ($<1$\,s) spans. It is comparatively recently, with the advent of a new generation of instruments, that it…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-01 Surajit Mondal , Atul Mohan , Divya Oberoi , John S. Morgan , Leonid Benkevitch , Colin J. Lonsdale , Meagan Crowley , Iver H. Cairns

Studies of the three-dimensional (3D) structures of galactic magnetic fields are now entering a new era, with broadband, highly sensitive radio observations and new analysis methods. To reveal the magnetic field configuration from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-07 Yuta Tashima , Takumi Ohmura , Mami Machida

In this paper, we present for the first time a comprehensive statistical study between type II radio bursts from the metric (m) to the dekameric-hectometric (DH) domain and their associated solar and space weather (SW) phenomena, namely,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-03 Pooja Devi , Rositsa Miteva , Ramesh Chandra , Kostadinka Koleva , Bendict Lawrance

With the recent commissioning of ground instruments such as SPHERE or GPI and future space observatories like WFIRST-AFTA, coronagraphy should probably become the most efficient tool for identifying and characterizing extra-solar planets in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-11 François Hénault , Alexis Carlotti , Christophe Vérinaud

The interface between the bright solar surface and the million-degree corona continues to hold the key to many unsolved problems in solar physics. Advances in instrumentation now allow us to observe the dynamic structures of the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Tiago M. D. Pereira

Supra-arcade downflows (SADs) are infrequent, wiggly opaque structures observed to descend through the solar corona, mostly in EUV and soft X-ray frequencies. From their physical characteristics, SADs have been interpreted as voided…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-04 Ernesto Zurbriggen , C. Guillermo Giménez de Castro , Andrea Costa , Mariana Cécere , Caius L. Selhorst

The Frequency Agile Solar Radiotelescope (FASR) has been strongly endorsed as a top community priority by both Astronomy & Astrophysics Decadal Surveys and Solar & Space Physics Decadal Surveys in the past two decades. Although it was…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-21 Dale E. Gary , Bin Chen , James F. Drake , Gregory D. Fleishman , Lindsay Glesener , Pascal Saint-Hilaire , Stephen M. White

Decameter wavelength radio emission is finely structured in solar bursts. For their research it is very important to use a sufficient sensitivity of antenna systems. In this paper we study an influence of the radiotelescope-antenna…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-15 Aleksander Stanislavsky , Aleksander Konovalenko , Eduard Abranin , Vladimir Dorovskyy , Valentin Mel'nik , Michael Kaiser , Alain Lecacheux , Helmut Rucker

A new instrument for spot profile analysis of electron diffraction - SPA-LEED - has been set up. The instrument works either with a transparent phosphor screen for visual inspection of the pattern or in its main mode with a channeltron for…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-01-30 U. Scheithauer , G. Meyer , M. Henzler

Low-frequency radio observations have been expected to serve as a powerful tool for Space Weather (SW) observations for decades. Radio observations are sensitive to a wide range of SW-related observations ranging from emissions from coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 Devojyoti Kansabanik , Surajit Mondal , Divya Oberoi , Puja Majee

Sunspots are the most important indicator of the magnetic activity on the solar surface during a cycle. Every sunspot group is formed and shaped by the magnetic field of the Sun. Hence, the magnetic field intensity shows itself as the size…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 Hikmet Çakmak

A popular scenario for electron acceleration in solar flares is transit-time damping of low-frequency MHD waves excited by reconnection and its outflows. The scenario requires several processes in sequence to yield energetic electrons of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Arnold O. Benz , Pascal Saint-Hilaire

Measurements of Ra-226 activity from eight HPGe gamma ray detectors at the NC State University PULSTAR Reactor were analyzed for evidence of periodic variations, with particular attention to annual variations. All measurements were made…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-01-10 Daniel D. Stancil , Sümeyra Balci Yegen , David A. Dickey , Chris R. Gould

The electron spectrometer, SPEDE, has been developed and will be employed in conjunction with the Miniball spectrometer at the HIE-ISOLDE facility, CERN. SPEDE allows for direct measurement of internal conversion electrons emitted…

Monitoring of the Sun and its activity is a task of growing importance in the frame of space weather research and awareness. Major space weather disturbances at Earth have their origin in energetic outbursts from the Sun: solar flares,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-09 Astrid M. Veronig , Werner Pötzi

In this work we use solar observations with the ALMA radio telescope at the wavelength of 1.21 mm. The aim of the analysis is to improve understanding of the solar chromosphere, a dynamic layer in the solar atmosphere between the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 R. Brajša , D. Sudar , I. Skokic , A. O. Benz , M. Kuhar , A. Kobelski , S. Wedemeyer , S. M. White , H. -G. Ludwig , M. Temmer , S. H. Saar , C. L. Selhorst

Variations of frequency separations of low-degree p-modes are studied over the solar activity cycle. The separations studied are obtained from the frequencies of low-degree p-modes of the Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG). 10.7 cm…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Wuming Yang , Xiangcun Meng

Violent solar eruptions are often accompanied by relativistic beams of charged particles. In the solar context, they are referred to as SPEs (Solar Particle Events) and are known to generate a characteristic swept-frequency radio burst. Due…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 H. K. Vedantham

The presence of the magnetic field is critical to transport energy through the solar atmosphere. The new generation of telescopes will provide new insight into how the magnetic field arrives into the chromosphere and its role in the energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-17 Juan Martínez-Sykora , Alberto Sainz Dalda , Milan Gošić , Bart De Pontieu

MIDAS (MIcrostrip Detector Array System) is a compact silicon tracking telescope for charged particles emitted at small angles in intermediate energy photonuclear reactions. It was realized to increase the angular acceptance of the DAPHNE…