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2024-03-25 Jessie Duncan (NASA GSFC)

Understanding the Hot Solar Corona via X-ray Observations with NuSTAR Abstract: NuSTAR is a highly sensitive direct-focusing hard x-ray (HXR) observatory optimized to observe astrophysical sources. In certain conditions, NuSTAR can also observe the Sun – and characterize faint x-ray emission from sources… Read More

2024-03-05 Jordan A. Guerra (CU/CIRES and NOAA/SWPC)

Estimating the Impact of the Magnetometer Network on the SWPC Geoelectric Field Model We performed a leave-one-out analysis in order to study the impact of the operational network of magnetometers on the SWPC Geoelectric field model. The Geoelectric… Read More

2024-02-27 Leonardo Testi (University of Bologna)

The Planets of Dawn Planetary systems are assembled around young stars within the so-called “protoplanetary” disks, which are the byproduct of the formation of the star itself. Over the last decade, observations of protoplanetary disks in nearby star… Read More

2024-02-13 Leigh Fletcher (Leicester)

JWST: A New Voyager for the Outer Solar System The first 18 months of JWST scientific operations have produced a treasure trove of new discoveries for the four giant planets, whilst challenging the community to develop innovative software… Read More

2024-01-16 Alanna Fox (UL)

The use of MaNGA data to establish the origin of spiral arms in galaxies  The aim of this project is to establish if the origin of the spiral arms in galaxies is due to stationary density waves or… Read More

2024-01-23 Rob Ivison (ESO)

30 years of submillimetre cosmology  The Universe that cooled from a cosmic fireball just shy of 14 billion years ago was comprised almost entirely of Hydrogen and Helium, with negligible quantities of the heavier elements. Astronomers seek to… Read More

2023-10-17 Jorick Vink (Armagh Observatory and Planetarium)

How Heavy is the Most Massive Star in the Universe? Abstract: Very massive stars (VMS) are dominant sources of ionising radiation. The prime difference between VMS in our local Universe and those in the Early Universe is their… Read More

2023-10-10 Yash Sarkango (Princeton University)

Satellite-magnetosphere interactions at Jupiter: A review of Juno JADE/JEDI observations Abstract:  Due to its inclined and highly elliptical trajectory, the Juno spacecraft passed frequently through magnetic flux tubes that were connected to the orbits of the Galilean satellites-Io,… Read More

2023-09-26 John Coxon (Northumbria University)

The distribution of Birkeland currents in time and space Abstract: Birkeland currents communicate information between the magnetopause and the rest of the magnetosphere, flowing along magnetic field lines at Earth. These currents which underpin solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling, and are… Read More

2023-09-28 Maria-Theresia Walach (Lancaster University)

The Eye of the Geomagnetic Storm: Electrodynamics at High-Latitudes during Geomagnetic Storm Abstract:  The Earth’s magnetosphere is coupled to the solar wind, and the ionosphere. The solar wind-magnetosphere coupling gives rise to electrical currents which flow through the… Read More