Michael DeLucaUniversity of PittsburghREU Student - Summer 2014
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I am working with Dr. Andrés Muñoz-Jaramillo to study the solar cycle. The Sun follows a roughly 22-year cycle of high and low activity. This activity is driven mainly by the magnetic field buried in the Sun, which erupts through the surface in what are called active regions. I will work to assemble a database of active regions in the Sun using magnetograms taken by the MDI instrument on board the SOHO satellite. This database will track active regions over more than a decade of daily MDI observations, enabling an unprecedented ability to study their properties over time with the changes in the solar cycle.
Week 1 : June 8th - June 14th
Week 2 : June 15th - June 21st
Week 3 : June 22nd - June 28th
Week 4 : June 29th - July 5th
Week 5 : July 6th - July 12th
Week 6 : July 13nd - July 19th
Week 7 : July 20th - July 26th
Week 8 : July 27th - August 2nd
Week 9 : August 3rd - August 9th
Here are some links to what I have been working on:
Parameter Search (Compressed File)
Final Presentation (PowerPoint)