Project Development

Solar Flare Modelling and Magnetic Reconnection

Project Development

The aim of my project is to anlyse the output from Professor Longcope's PREFT program and adapt the flux tube parameters in order to best match the observational data corresponding to the X-ray loop top source from flar 2004 February 26th. This should give us insight into the validity of magnetic reconnection and subsequent tube retraction in explaining the energy release and emission as observed by RHESSI.

Ⓒ Callum Fairbairn 2017