Infrared Studies of Solar Convection

Abstract

This ASSERT grant was to support the Ph.D. work of Tom Spirock who is a native of New Jersey. Tom will finish his Ph.D. this year, thanks in large part to ASSERT support. His work was to build an infrared magnetograph and use it for scientific work. Solar magnetic fields are concentrated in flux tubes, and appear on different scales: sunspots, pores (small sunspots without penumbra) and magnetic network flux elements. The magnetic network elements are the detritus of decaying active regions and play an important part in the solar cycle. They are very long lived.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 19, 2000
Accession Number
ADA386915

Entities

People

  • Philip Goode

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Contrast
  • Convection
  • Cycles
  • Ground Based
  • High Resolution
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Magnetic Flux
  • New Jersey
  • Observation
  • Solar Activity
  • Solar Cycle
  • Solar Disturbances
  • Solar Observatories
  • Sunspots
  • White Light

Readers

  • Marine Ecotoxicology
  • Research Science/Academic Research
  • Solar Physics