Projects

One of the most important open questions in astrophysics is explaining why the solar wind is so hot. The solar surface is at about 6500K but quickly as one moves in the atmosphere of the Sun the temperature reaches millions of degrees and continues to increase more gently at larger distances before slowly starting to decrease. This goes against any intuition for an expanding gas that moves away from its source of heating. Two new missions ...

The overarching science question to be addressed in the proposed project is: how does solar wind evolve and define its space weather impact on Earth? To address this question, the main specific objectives of the project are: 1) to simulate the background solar wind and CME propagation using a state-of-the-art model, 2) to compare the simulation results to novel in situ observations of the solar wind by PSP and SolO, 3) to improve and ...

Space Weather Awareness Training Network (SWATNET) aims at breakthroughs in understanding the physical foundations of key agents of Space Weather at Earth and establishing a unique PhD training program in the field. SWATNET is composed of eight Beneficiaries and seven Partner Organizations from seven different European countries with diverse and complementary expertise. This ITN trains the next generation of heliophysicists with an ...