U.S.-Australia Cooperative Research: A Study of the Polar Magnetic Fields of the Sun

小行星9515468 该奖项将支持为期两年的旅行，使太阳天文学系的Harold Zirin博士能够在 加州理工学院与Peter R.悉尼大学数学与统计学院的威尔逊说。 合作研究将侧重于太阳极地磁场的研究。 太阳的极场很重要，因为它们是行星际空间中远离太阳的主要特征。 太阳极区磁场的变化是太阳黑子活动周期的重要方面之一，对日地关系有着重要的意义。 该项目旨在将美国大熊太阳观测站正在进行的极地观测计划和悉尼大学的分析计划结合起来，悉尼大学已经开发了所需的软件。 研究人员的结合应该会在解释已经收集的观察数据方面产生新的见解。 澳大利亚的工作得到了工业、科学和旅游部的支持。

9515468 Zirin This award will support travel over a two year period to enable Dr. Harold Zirin from the Department of Solar Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology to conduct collaborative research with Prof. Peter R. Wilson of the School of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Sydney. The cooperative research will focus on the study of solar polar magnetic fields. The Sun's polar fields are important because they are the dominant feature acting far from the sun in interplanetary space. The behavior of the solar polar magnetic fields is one of the remarkable aspects of the sunspot cycle, and of great importance to solar-terrestrial relations. The project seeks to team up an ongoing program of polar observations conducted at the Big Bear Solar Observatory in the United States and an analysis program at the University of Sydney where needed software has already been developed. The combination of investigators should result in new insights in the interpretation of the observational data already collected. The work in Australia is supported through the Department of Industry, Science and Tourism (DIST).