RUSSIAN

Solar Physics Department

[OLD SITE (in Russian)]

Staff

B.V. Somov	– head of the department	somov@sai.msu.ru	room 80
S.I. Bezrodnykh	– senior research felow	serbez@yandex.ru	room 80
M.I. Divlekeev	– research felow	div@sai.msu.ru	room 20
Yu.V. Dumin	– senior research felow	dumin@yahoo.com	room 80
O.V. Dunin-Barkovskaya (Ptitsyna)	– leading engineer	olq1543@gmail.com	room 80
P.A. Gritsyk	– research fellow	funt@inbox.ru	room 80
A.I. Khlystov	– senior research felow	khlai@rambler.ru	room 20
N.P. Kolesnikov	– leading engineer	nick206265@gmail.com	room 80
L.S. Ledentsov	– research fellow	koob@mail.ru	room 80
I.F. Nikulin	– senior research felow	ifn@sai.msu.ru	room 20
G.A. Porfir'eva	– research fellow	galina-porfirieva@yandex.ru	room 20
V.S. Prokudina	– research fellow	prok@sai.msu.ru	room 20
G.V. Yakunina	– research fellow	yakunina@sai.msu.ru	room 20

Main scientific direction

"Physics of the Sun and Sun-Earth connections"

Modern space observations of the Sun have high spatial, temporal and spectral resolution. This allows us to observe and investigate physical processes at the solar surface, in the high-temperature magnetized plasma of the corona and solar wind. We can investigate in many details the effects caused by energy fluxes from reconnecting current layers. These fluxes are in the form of fast hydrodynamic flows, powerful thermal waves and charged particles accelerated to the extremely high energies. Just these effects create the observed picture of a solar flare, the primary link in the chain of the Sun-Earth connections. Our department performes the following most perspective studies:

• Special analytical and numerical experimental investigations of the solar plasma involved in the magnetic reconnection process at the Sun.
• Calculation and analyses of magnetic fields in the solar atmosphere and their comparison with multi-wavelength observations of active regions and solar flares.
• Study of the kinetic and MHD phenomena caused by the flare energy release in the form of accelerated particles, powerful fluxes of heat and hard electromagnetic radiation.

Scientific seminar

"Plasma Astrophysics and Solar Physics"
in memory of S.I. Syrovatskii

The seminar holds regularly on Tuesday at 15:30 in the Conference Hall of P.K. Sternberg Astronomical Institute. Head of the seminar: Prof. B.V. Somov. Secretary: O.V. Dunin-Barkovskaya.

The seminar considers the questions related to generation of magnetic fields in astrophysical plasmas, effect of the magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration in strong magnetic fields, the origin and propagation of cosmic rays, the flares and other non-stationary phenomena in the solar atmosphere and solar wind, Sun–Earth connections and physical processes in the heliosphere.

[AGENDA OF THE NEXT SEMINAR]

Teaching

• B.V. Somov. Introduction to Plasma Astrophysics (Selected 10 lectures)

News

27 September 2013   The Solar Physics Department was visited by journalists of the leading Russian TV channel "Vesti-1".

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