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| "By the time you've sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you've learned something about it yourself." *** |
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| "There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." *** |
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Sabrina L. Savage, Ph.D.Research AstrophysicistSolar and Solar Terrestrial Studies Last Updated: 04/26/2011 |
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be." ***
Solar Research
*** The research on this page has not been updated since prior to graduating from MSU. ***
Montana State University
Solar Physics Department
Previous Advisor: Dr. David McKenzie
Since the summer of 2005, I have been developing software to semi-automatically find and analyze
Supra-Arcade Downflows (SADs) to help describe the magnetic environment above solar flares.
The movies below show examples of erupting flares with downflows and the following references
give full descriptions.
Supra-Arcade Downflows
SXT SAD Flare Movies
TRACE SAD Flare Movies (coming soon)
XRT SAD Flare Movies (coming soon)
Full SADs Flare Spreadsheet.
Updated 06/30/09
Spreadsheet of all flares that have been analyzed with FindSADs and some brief resulting information.
Updated 10/03/08
Results
Example movies and plots of tracked flows:TRACE 020421
SXT 000712
XRT 080409 "Cartwheel CME Flare"