Conveners
EST: Session - 13
- Peter Gömöry (Astronomical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences)
EST: Session - 16
- Peter Gömöry (Astronomical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences)
EST: Session - 17
- Manuel Collados (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias)
The Sun is a star full of charged particles (ions and electrons) everywhere and, as such, behaves as a plasma. The interior and the outer part of its atmosphere (the corona, largely extending into the interplanetary medium) is fully ionized, void of neutral particles. Contrarily, the deeper layers of the solar atmosphere (photosphere and chromosphere) are partly ionized, in which the abundance...
EST is the future major infrastructure for ground-based solar physics in Europe. EST will be built in the island of La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain) and is expected to start operations in the next decade. The project is devised to study the solar magnetism of the deepest layers of the solar atmosphere with high spatial, temporal, spectral and polarimetric accuracies, to record how magnetic...
The European Solar Telescope (EST) is a next generation large-aperture (4 meters) solar telescope which will revolutionize observations of our Sun. This will be achieved through the unique and novel post-focus instrumentation. The acquired data will contribute not only to fundamental solar astrophysics research, but will also address and answer questions of direct societal impact, e.g.,...
Realistic simulations of the solar upper convection zone and its atmospheric layers have become essential tools for unraveling complex magnetohydrodynamic processes in the Sun and complementing observational studies. These simulations also serve as laboratories for testing new ideas. One such idea involves incorporating partial ionization and other non-ideal effects - such as ambipolar...
The interpretation of solar observations relies critically on our ability to understand how radiation is formed and modified as it propagates through the solar atmosphere. Radiative transfer provides the fundamental framework that connects the physical properties of the plasma such as temperature, velocity, and magnetic field with the observed spectral profiles.
The basic principles of...
