` Hale COLLAGE 2017
Hale COLLAGE 2017

Solar flares and CMEs: Their physics and their observation

Summary: This web-enabled course is an offering of the George Ellery Hale Collaborative Graduate Education (COLLAGE) Program, a joint effort between CU Boulder, the National Solar Observatory (NSO), New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), University of Hawaii (UH), New Mexico State University (NMSU), Montana State University (MSU), and the High Altitude Observatory (HAO).

Lectuers will be web-cast using Web-ex from different parrticipating campuses each week. These will be recorded and available following their broadcast. The course grade will be based on a series of homework assignments and a final project.




Week of...

Mon

Wed.

Jan. 9

No class

Jan. 16

MLK day 1. Overview of Flares & CMEs (Longcope)

Jan. 23

2. CME fundamentals: MHD & instabilities (Longcope) 3. CME fundamentals: role of reconnection (Longcope)

Jan. 30

4. CME fundamentals: instability & reconnection (Longcope) 5. CME observations: ribbon motion (Qiu)

Feb. 6

6. CME observations: coronagraphs (Qiu) 7. CME observations: radio (Chen)

Feb. 13

8. CME observations: in situ (Chen) 9. Flare loop fundamentals: 1d gas dynamics & 0d models (Longcope)

Feb. 20

No class 10. Flare loop fundamentals: 1d gas dynamics & evaporatio (Longcope)

Feb. 27

11. Flare loop radiation: line emission (Longcope) 12. Flare loop observations: EUV and X-ray light curves (Qiu)

Mar. 6

13. Flare loop observations: EUV and X-ray light curves (Qiu) 14. Flare loop obsrvations: spectroscopy (Chen)

Mar. 13

Spring Break (MSU & NJIT)

Mar. 20

15. Flare loop obsrvations: spectroscopy (Chen) 16. Impulsive phase fundamentals: single particle motion (Longcope)

Mar. 27

17. Impulsive phase fundamentals: Distribution function basics (Longcope) 18. Impulsive phase fundamentals: Scattering
& Fokker-Planck eq. (Longcope)

Apr. 3

19. Impulsive phase fundamentals: Stochastic Acceleration (Longcope) 20. Impulsive phase radiation: Bremsstrahlung, gyrosynchrotron, etc. (Chen)

Apr. 10

21. Impulsive phase radiation: Bremsstrahlung, gyrosynchrotron, etc. (Chen) 22. Impulsive phase observations: Radio & HXR, imaging & spectroscopy (Chen)

Apr. 17

23. Impulsive phase observations: Radio & HXR, imaging & spectroscopy (Chen) 24. Impulsive phase observations: Dynanics w/ RT & NT particles (Kowalski)

Apr. 24

25. Impulsive phase lab: RADYN (Kowalski) 26. Impulsive phase lab: RADYN (Kowalski)

May. 1

27. Stellar flares: (Kowalski) -

Recordings: Are being kept at CU-Boulder's site


Homework:


Problem set
Due date
notes/comments
Problem Set 1 due: Feb. 20 email questions to dana-at-solar.physics.montana.edu
* fixed small typo in part (d).
Deadline extended
solution
Problem Set 2 due: Mar 3 email questions to qiuj-at-solar.physics.montana.edu (prob. 1)
bin.chen-at-njit.edu (Probs. 2-4).
Deadline extended
solution
Problem Set 3 due: Mar. 24 email questions to dana-at-solar.physics.montana.edu solution
Problem Set 4 due: Apr. 14 email questions to dana-at-solar.physics.montana.edu solution

Interesting resources:

Notes, slides, and suggested reading for each lecture: