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Physics and Astronomy/Thayer Plasma Seminar - Bin Chen, NJIT

Title: "Radio Diagnostics of Magnetic Reconnection and Particle Acceleration in Solar Flares"

10/6/2020
4 pm – 5 pm
Zoom: https://dartmouth.zoom.us/j/96791994413?pwd=USs5bWlzSWNieTgrL3pRUm1jQndtUT09 (email for password)
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Lectures & Seminars

Abstract: Solar flares involve the catastrophic release of magnetic energy through magnetic reconnection. Flares are also highly efficient particle accelerators, capable of accelerating a significant fraction of available charged particles to relativistic energies within a short time. Radio remote-sensing observations offer unique diagnostics for both the plasma environment at (or near) the magnetic reconnection site and the flare-accelerated high-energy electrons. In the past decade, we have been enjoying a major transition in solar radio astronomy as it evolves from imaging at a few discrete frequencies to true imaging spectroscopy over a wide frequency range at a fast time cadence, known as "broadband dynamic imaging spectroscopy". In this talk, I will highlight some of our recent results based on this technique, enabled by observations from the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array and NJIT's solar-dedicated radio observatory: The Expanded Owens Valley Solar Array.
 

 
References:

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015Sci...350.1238C/abstract

For more information, contact:
Tressena Manning
tressena.a.manning@dartmouth.edu
603-646-2854
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