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Exploring the Sun at High Energies

  • 01:02:24

Description

The Sun provides a nearby case study in which to study plasma processes and high-energy astrophysical phenomena with high-resolution remote sensing combined with in-situ data and even multiviewpoint measurements — tools that are not available to study any object outside the solar system. In addition to basic physics research interests, understanding high-energy aspects of the Sun also has practical applications, since Earth-directed solar eruptive events can pose a danger to satellites, astronauts, and power grids. New, direct-focusing techniques are now available to study high-energy aspects of solar flares and solar eruptions. The first generation of solar-dedicated hard X-ray focusing optics has recently flown on suborbital missions (rockets and balloons). And from low-Earth orbit, the NuSTAR spacecraft, a direct-focusing instrument designed to look at the faintest objects outside the solar system, has also produced detailed hard X-ray images of solar active regions. This colloquium will cover recent advances in high-energy solar flare physics and will present new instrumentation, with emphasis on the FOXSI rocket, which produced the first focused hard X-ray image of the Sun. The prospects of these new instruments for understanding solar flares and astrophysical particle acceleration will be discussed.

Details

Title

Exploring the Sun at High Energies

Creator

University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of Physics

Published

Berkeley, CA, University of California, Berkeley, Dept. of Physics, March 2, 2015

Full Collection Name

Physics Colloquia

Type

Video

Format

Lecture.

Extent

1 streaming video file

Other Physical Details

digital, sd., col.

Archive

Physics Library

Note

Recorded at a colloquium held on March 2, 2015, sponsored by the Dept. of Physics, University of California, Berkeley.

originally produced as an .mts file in 2015

Speakers: Glesener, Lindsay.

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Collection

Physics Colloquia

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colloquia/3-2-15Glesener.mp4 01:02:24

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