Ab Initio Models of Solar Activity

Robert F. Stein, Michigan State University

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Robert F. Stein, Aake Nordlund, Stuart Levy, William Abbett, Joe Werne, Mats Carlsson, Craig Steffen, Troels Haugboelle, Juan Martinez Sykora, Tiago Pereira, Viggo Hansteen, Boris Gudiksen, Jesper Schou, Zazralt Magic, Anders Lagerfjard

The goal of this project is to understand how internal solar magneto-convection powers the Sun’s activity, and how that activity heats the chromosphere and corona and accelerates charged particles to relativistic energies. The research team uses three-dimensional, compressible, finite difference, magneto-hydrodynamic codes to solve the equations for mass, momentum and internal energy in conservative form plus the induction equation for the magnetic field. They use a particle-in-cell plasma code to calculate charged particle acceleration and radiation in regions of reconnecting magnetic fields.

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