I am a voyager, journeying through the Sun trying to exploring various phenomena. At present I am exclusively looking into small-scale transients in the Solar atmosphere. These include spicules, rapid blue-shifted excursions, rapid red-shifted excursions and others we haven't yet understood. :
Spicules -
Hair-like, thin and dybnamic structures on the Sun.
Image 1
The image is a sample H-alpha line wing image (data details : CRISP instrument onboard Swedish 1-meter Solar Telescope - (SST)) showing set of spicules. The white ones have more rapid appearences and disappeareances.Image 2
The image is H-alpha line wing image (data details : CRISP instrument onboard Swedish 1-meter Solar Telescope - (SST)) showing set of spicules. The white ones have more rapid appearences and disappeareances.Some interesting movies of the features I study are : and
Ellerman bombs -
Supposedly singatures of magnetic reconnection
Solar cycle variations -
Understanding how both the hemispheres of the Sun evolve during a solar cyle and whether they are insync or offsync. The idea is to understand the asymmetries and explore the relation to solar dynamo.
Further up, I am interested in understanding how Solar Magnetic field evolves from its development at tachocline to it propagation in Solar Atmosphere. To sum it up I am on a journey to answer the questions raised by my mind:
- Role of small-scale transients in heating of solar atmosphere.
- Wave associated with various events.
- Hemispheric asymmetries on the Sun.
- Effect of weak solar cycle on the Earth.
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