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Outreach project with
Angela Des Jardins
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Solar Physics Education: Research and Project Development
Dr. Des Jardins leads the Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project (NEBP),
which will involve thousands of college students in hands-on
research for the October 14, 2023 annular and April 8, 2024 total solar
eclipses. In this project, student will develop online modules that the NEBP
participants will use to learn about the sun and eclipses.
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Data analysis with
Jiong Qiu
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Properties of Magnetic Reconnection in Solar Flares
Solar flares release a large amount of energy stored in the Sun's magnetic field by a mechanism
called magnetic reconnection. In this project, student will analyze state-of-the-art observations
of flares by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft, and measure properites of magnetic
reconnection that governs energy release in flares.
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Optical instrumentation with
Joe Shaw
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Experimental Studies of Moonlight and Sky Polarization
Dr. Shaw's group has pioneered the use of polarization imaging for atmospheric science.
In this project, we will measure scattered moonlight with polarization
imaging, and use these measurements to study the atmosphere.
Student will participating in making observational
measurements and data analysis.
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Data analysis with
Aki Takeda
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Solar X-ray Irradiance with Hinode/XRT
Our Sun is a variable star, and the amount of its radiation rises and falls every 11 years or so.
The radiation from the Sun received at the earth (irradiance) varies over the activity cycle,
and also varies with the observing wavelength. In this project, we will derive the long-term
variation of the Sun's irradiance in soft X-rays, using a series of full-Sun
images observed with the X-Ray Telescope (XRT) aboard
the Hinode satellite, which is an international space mission among
Japan/US/UK.
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Data analysis with
Chunming Zhu
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Understanding Flare Heating With Multi-wavelength Observations
A solar Flare is an intense burst of radiation in the solar atmosphere.
In this project, student will use a novel method developed at MSU, and
analyze and model a flare observed by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft
to derive flare energy, and understand heating and cooling of flare plasmas.
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Data analysis with
Anne Lohfink
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Characterizing Compact Jets in Seyfert Galaxies
Accretion onto black holes is one of the most efficient processes for
emitting energy from matter in the Universe. Research has shown that this
accretion process is also accompanied by ejection processes (winds,
relativistic outflows). These accretion and ejection processes are usually
assumed to work similarly no matter the size of the black hole.
In this project, the student will investigate whether the compact jets seen
in accreting supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are just
bigger versions of those seen in accreting stellar mass black holes.
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