Weeks 3-4

Week 3

AAS

For the majority of week 3, I attended the American Astronomical Society 240th Meeting to present my research from the University of Wyoming. As such, little to no work got done on the Solar Physics REU. The link to my virtual poster is included below.

View my poster here!

When I arrived back on Friday, most of the extra time was spent ironing out bugs in the loop length code.


Week 4

EBTEL

The fourth week was spent mostly on setting up and running EBTEL for a number of parameters, and comparing those to actual light curves. Monday consisted of generating the loop lengths for EBTEL, as well as looking at the evolution of these loops over time.

Finally, Tuesday was full of successes running EBTEL, and generating the pressure, density, and temperature within each loop. These were then used to generate some preliminary lightcurves using the DEM.

On Wednesday, more lightcurves were generated using EBTEL by varying the parameters, and these plots were compared to determine the best range of parameters to use for future calculations.

Thursday, for the first time, was full of new code and unexplored territory, in the form of the synthesizAR python package, which was used to create synthetic observations of simulated flare loops for a few overlapping loops.

Friday was another two week update presentation, and most of the day was spent preparing for that, along with generalizing the code for 100 random loops and importing IDL save data into python.