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Description: This offering is a newly designed graduate-level course in the George Ellery Hale Collaborative Graduate Education (COLLAGE) Program, a series of web-cast courses delivered from US universities with graduate programs in Solari and/or Solar-Terrestrial Physics: University of Colorado, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University of Hawaii, New Mexico State University, and Montana State University.
The course concerns solar flares and coronal mass ejections, large explosions on the Sun that drive the "weather" in our space environment. It will cover the basic physical principles involved in flares and CMEs, including gas dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, kinetic theory, and radiation processes. It will also cover the methods used to observe and study flares, including visible and UV spectroscopy, X-ray spectroscopy and radio astronomy. NJIT students will attend from Tiernan Hall 101 which is equipped with a large-screen monitor, microphone, and web camera. Lectures will be given by Profs. Dana Longcope (MSU), Bin Chen (NJIT), Jiong Qiu (MSU), and Adam Kowalski (CU/NSO), with combined expertise in theory, observation, and modeling.
These Webex-based lectures will be recorded and available following their broadcast. The course grade will be based on homework assignments and a final project.
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Week of... |
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Jan. 9 |
No class | |
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Jan. 16 |
MLK day |
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Overview of Flares & CMEs (Longcope) |
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Jan. 23 | 2. CME fundamentals: MHD & instabilities (Longcope) | 3. CME fundamentals: role of reconnection (Longcope) |
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Jan. 30 | 4. CME fundamentals: instability & reconnection (Longcope) | 5. CME observations: flux ropes (Qiu) |
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Feb. 6 | 6. CME Energetics (Qiu) | 7. CME observations: radio and in situ (Chen) |
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Feb. 13 | 8. CME observations: radio and in situ (Chen) | 9. Flare loop fundamentals: 1d gas dynamics (Longcope) |
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Feb. 20 | No class | 10. Flare loop fundamentals: 1d gas dynamics & evaporation (Longcope) |
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Feb. 27 | 11. Flare loop radiation: line emission (Longcope) | 12. Flare loop observations: light curves (Qiu) |
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Mar. 6 | 13. Flare loop observations: light curves (Qiu) | 14. Flare loop observations: imaging and spectroscopy (Chen) |
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Mar. 13 | Spring Break (MSU & NJIT) | |
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Mar. 20 | 15. Flare loop observations: imaging and spectroscopy (Chen) | 16. Impulsive phase fundamentals: single particle motion (Longcope) |
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Mar. 27 | 17. Impulsive phase fundamentals: Boltzmann equation (Longcope) |
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Impulsive phase fundamentals: Scattering & Fokker-Planck eq. (Longcope) |
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Apr. 3 | 19. Impulsive phase fundamentals: particle acceleration (Longcope) | 20. Impulsive phase radiation: Brehsstralung, gyrosyncrotron, etc. (Chen) |
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Apr. 10 | 21. Impulsive phase radiation: Brehsstralung, gyrosyncrotron, etc. (Chen) | 22. Impulsive phase observations: Radio & HXR, imaging & spectroscpy (Chen) |
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Apr. 17 | 23. Impulsive phase observations: Radio & HXR, imaging & spectroscpy (Chen) | 24. Impulsive phase observations: Dynanics w/ RT & NT particles (Kowalski) |
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Apr. 24 | 25. Impulsive phase lab: RADYN I (Kowalski) | 26. Impulsive phase lab: RADYN II (Kowalski) |
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May. 1 | 27. Stellar flares (Kowalski) | No class |
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Notes/comments |
| Problem Set 1 | Feb 20 (deadline extended) | email questions to Prof. Dana Longcope (dana-at-solar.physics.montana.edu) |
| Problem Set 2 | Mar 3 | email questions to Prof. Jiong Qiu (qiuj-at-solar.physics.montana.edu) for Prob. #1, and Bin Chen (bin.chen-at-njit.edu) for Probs #2-4. |
| Problem Set 3 | Mar 24 | email questions to Prof. Dana Longcope (dana-at-solar.physics.montana.edu). |
| Problem Set 4 | Apr 14 | email questions to Prof. Dana Longcope (dana-at-solar.physics.montana.edu). |