Solar Journal Club -- PHYS 500-17

Coordinator: Charles Kankelborg kankel@mithra.physics.montana.edu

Time: Tuesday 3:10 PM

Place: Dayton Conference Room (EPS 258) 


In this seminar, graduate student and faculty participants will review recent journal articles and preprints in order to familiarize themselves with the "state of the art" of the major observational and theoretical research topics of the discipline and the MSU research program. From time to time, "classic" papers of enduring value may be discussed. The typical weekly meeting will consist of a one-hour critical discussion of a journal article, copies of which will have been distributed to, and read by, all participants during the previous week. Each discussion will be informally led by a student or faculty member. Participants will be expected to contribute actively to all discussions, and to lead an occasional one on a rotating basis.

When appropriate, these discussions will be replaced by an informal presentation of personal research results by MSU students, faculty, or scientific visitors. 


Here is a list of suggested titles from the current literature. 

Schedule:

Week
Discussion Leader Paper
1/21 Organizational meeting
1/28 Dana Longcope Demoulin & Berger, Magnetic Energy and Helicity Fluxes at the Photospheric Level
2/4 Tetsuya Magara Abbett & Fisher, A Coupled Model for the Emergence of Active Region Magnetic Flux into the Solar Corona
2/11 Jonathan Cirtain Linton & Antiochos, Theoretical Energy Analysis of Reconnecting Twisted Magnetic Flux Tubes
2/18 Trae Winter Yamamoto, et al., Analysis of the Temperature and Emission Measure of Solar Coronal Arcades and Test of a Scaling Law of Flare/Arcade Loop Length
2/25 Alisdair Davey Zanna & Mason, Solar and Stellar High-resolution X-ray Spectra: Plasma Diagnostics with the CHIANTI Atomic Database
3/4 Andrew Holt Hagenaar, Shrijver, and Title, The Properties of Small Magnetic Regions on the Solar Surface and the Implications for the Solar Dynamo(s)
3/11 No SJC Spring Break
3/18 Loren Acton Harrison, et al., Coronal Dimming and the Coronal Mass Ejection Onset
3/25 Adria Updike Calculation of Magnetic Helicity in a Force-Free Field
4/1 Jun Sato Yokoyama et al., Microwave Observations of the Rapid Propagation of Nonthermal Sources in a Solar Flare by the Nobeyama Radioheliograph
4/8 Dibyendu Nandi Blackman & Brandenburg, Doubly Helical Coronal Ejections from Dynamos and Their Role in Sustaining the Solar Cycle
4/15 David McKenzie Wang, et al., Rapid Changes of Magnetic Fields Associated with Six X-Class Flares
4/22 Charles Kankelborg Aschwanden & Schrijver, Analytic Approximations to Hydrostatic Solutions and Scaling Laws of Coronal Loops
4/29 Richard Canfield Canfield, On the Origin of Activity in Solar-Type Stars
5/6 No SJC Final Exams

Links to journals

Group participants (who get papers)
  1. Acton
  2. Canfield
  3. Cirtain, Jonathan
  4. Cirtain, Melissa
  5. Davey
  6. DesJardins
  7. Fox
  8. Holt
  9. Kankelborg
  10. Klapper
  11. Klumpar
  12. Larsen
  13. Leamon
  14. Longcope
  15. Magara
  16. Martens
  17. McKenzie
  18. Nandi
  19. Obland
  20. Regnier
  21. Sato
  22. Wills-Davey
  23. Winter

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