Solar Physics and Space Plasma Research Centre
The work of this Centre is at the forefront of addressing theoretical and observational issues in solar and solar system physics that include solar magneto-seismology, dynamics of the solar atmosphere, solar wind, magnetosphere and Space Weather. This Centre is one of the largest and most dynamic solar and solar system physics research groups in the country and is well renowned internationally.
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Members
Current grants
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European Solar Telescope PRE-EST
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Instabilities in partially ionized prominence plasmas
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ATST UK Consortium-PPRP bid
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Royal Society International Exchange Scheme
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Past grants
| Particle Physics and Astronomy International Summer School (IUSS
2007), PPARC, 2007
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| Theory and Observations of the Solar-Terrestrial System, STFC Introductory Course in Solar and Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISS 2008) |
| Topical Advanced Summer School joint with UK-Ukraine Workshop on MHD Waves,
Oscillations and Instabilities in Solar and Space Environment |
| The heliopause and heliosheath: distance, shape, structure of flow and stability |
| Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship 2011 |
| Consolidated Grant Support for the Solar Physics and Space Plasma Research Centre (SP2RC) |
| India-UK Scientific Seminar
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Consolidated Grant Support for SP2RC
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PROGRESS
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Royal Society exchange
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AURA
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Key publications
- Jess, D.B., Erdélyi, R. et al.
"Alfven Waves in the Lower Solar Atmosphere"
Science (2009)
- Erdélyi, R. and Fedun, V.
"Are There Alfven Waves in the Solar Atmosphere?"
Science (2007)
- Kim, E.
"Consistent Theory of Turbulent Transport in Two-Dimensional Magnetohydrodynamics"
Physical Review Letters (2006)
- Erdélyi, Robert
"Magnetic coupling of waves and oscillations in the lower solar atmosphere: can the tail wag the dog?"
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (2006)
- Jain, R., Browning, P. and Kusano, K.
"Nonlinear effects on magnetic energy release by forced magnetic reconnection: Long wavelength perturbations"
Physics of Plasmas (2006)
- Dymova, M.V. and Ruderman, M.S.
"Resonantly damped oscillations of longitudinally stratified coronal loops"
Astronomy and Astrophysics (2006)
- Ballai, I., Erdélyi, R. and Hargreaves, J.
"Slow magnetohydrodynamic waves in stratified and viscous plasmas"
Physics of Plasmas (2006)
- Ballai, I., Erdélyi, R and Pintér, B
"On the Nature of Coronal EIT Waves"
The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2005)
- De Pontieu, Bart, von Fay-Siebenburgen, R. and James, Stewart P.
"Solar chromospheric spicules from the leakage of photospheric oscillations and flows"
Nature (2004)
- Thompson, M.J., Christensen-Dalsgaard, J., Miesch, M.S. and Toomre, J.
"The Internal Rotation of the Sun"
Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics (2003)
- Jain, R. and Haber, D.
"Solar p-modes and surface magnetic fields: Is there an acoustic emission?"
Astronomy and Astrophysics (2002)
- Ruderman, M.S. and Roberts, B.
"The Damping of Coronal Loop Oscillations"
The Astrophysical Journal (2002)
- Kim, E. and MacGregor, K.B.
"Gravity Wave-driven Flows in the Solar Tachocline"
The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2001)
- Howe, R. , Thompson, M.J. and Toomre, J.
"Deeply Penetrating Banded Zonal Flows in the Solar Convection Zone"
The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2000)