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PETRUS (PIET) C MARTENS

Research Professor

Office: EPS 247
Telephone: (406)994-4470
Fax: (406)994-4452
martens@physics.montana.edu

Petrus C. Martens
Physics Department
Montana State University
PO BOX 173840
Bozeman, MT 59717-3840

Solar Physics

B.S., Astronomy, 1977, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
M.S., Theoretical Astrophysics, 1979, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Ph.D., Theoretical Astrophysics (Cum Laude), 1983, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Special Studies in Management and Administration, Harvard University Extension School (1988-1990)

Associate Editor, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Member, Solar and Heliospheric NASA Heliophysics Management Operations Working Group
Member, NASA Living with a Star Management Operations Working Group
Chair, NASA Living with a Star Focus Group on "Solar Modulation of the Galactic Cosmic Rays and the Production
of Cosmogenic Isotope Archives of Long-term Solar Activity, Used to Interpret Past Climate Changes."

Research: Physics of the Solar Corona and Solar Wind

Teaching

Student Research Supervision

Space Exploration: Solar Physics Missions

Publications: A Complete List with Links to Preprints, Reprints, and the ADS Database

Presentations: A List of Seminars and Conference Papers, 1999 - present.

Image Gallery: The Beauty of Solar Physics

Observations of Solar magnetic structures are the only and indispensable link between Magneto-Hydrodynamics (MHD) in a controlled laboratory setting, such as in Tokamaks and stellarators, and the MHD of exotic and fascinating, but irreproducable and mostly unresolvable magnetic objects in the Universe , such as neutron star pulsars, magnetic stars, and quasars.

Thus the Sun is a unique astrophysical laboratory for magnetic fields. The instruments that Solar physicists have built to study Solar magnetic fields routinely produce stunning imagery. A personal selection, result of the work of a high school summer student, and pertinent to the research interests of our Solar group, is shown here.

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