ERC Starting Grant · 2021
Resolving magnetic ORIGINs of the hot solar atmosphere
The outer atmosphere of the Sun, the corona, is a unique plasma laboratory. It provides key insights into fundamental universal processes such as magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration. Yet, the very existence of the corona in itself is not well understood. It is composed of million Kelvin hot plasma trapped by magnetic fields, and overlies the much cooler 6000 K photosphere, the visible surface of the Sun. All sun-like stars possess such magnetically dominated hotter coronae overlying cooler photospheres. How do magnetic fields regulate mass and energy transport from the cool photosphere to sustain the overlying hot corona? This is a long-standing problem in astrophysics, which…
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