CAREER: Bridging Modern Computational Capabilities and Observations of Solar Magnetic Fields with Expanding Solar Physics Education at the University of Hawaii

职业：通过扩展夏威夷大学的太阳物理教育，架起现代计算能力和太阳磁场观测的桥梁

• 批准号: 0639335
• 负责人: Jeffrey Kuhn
• 金额: $ 97.5万
• 依托单位: University of Hawaii
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-01-01 至 2014-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0639335&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Bridging; Modern; Computational; Capabilities

The PI plans to combine recent theories and modern computational capabilities with advanced magnetic observations at the Sun's visible surface to improve present knowledge of the coronal magnetic field, coronal mass ejections (CMEs), and other manifestations of solar activity. He plans to coordinate a sophisticated modeling effort with existing observational solar research programs at the Institute for Astronomy (IfA) at the University of Hawaii. The PI also describes a program to educate science teachers and students about the Sun, the Earth, and their interactions, as well as provide effective outreach to the wider community, in order to promote solar physics literacy. The PI outlines a five-year research program focused on fundamental topics of solar and heliospheric physics, including the study of the stability and quasi-steady state properties of the coronal magnetic field, structure and evolution of the solar wind and IMF, leading causes of CMEs and their interaction with the ambient solar wind, and production of SEPs at CME-driven shocks and their transport through the heliosphere. The PI expects that these efforts will enable him to treat the underlying physics in a tightly-coupled manner, which may lead to major breakthroughs in solar physics research. Because these topics are interrelated, the PI's goal is to synergize modeling and observational efforts so that the cumulative scientific outcome will be greater than the sum of the individual efforts. The PI intends to bridge theory and numerical modeling with relevant observations in each topical investigation, to enable a comprehensive investigation with broad impact in the solar physics community.The author seeks to attract students in solar physics both locally and nationally, and integrate them into these research activities. He plans to develop a new graduate course in Solar and Stellar Magnetism at the IfA. The PI's vision includes establishing a summer school in solar physics, providing a foreign undergraduate to collaborate with REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) students at the IfA, creating graduate and postdoctoral research assistantships in solar physics at the IfA, providing public outreach through talks and seminars, and presenting these expanded IfA solar research and educational programs at non-PhD-granting colleges across the US.

PI计划将联合收割机的最新理论和现代计算能力与太阳可见表面的先进磁观测相结合，以改善目前对日冕磁场、日冕物质抛射（CME）和太阳活动的其他表现形式的认识。他计划与夏威夷大学天文研究所（IfA）现有的观测太阳研究项目协调一个复杂的建模工作。PI还介绍了一个计划，以教育科学教师和学生关于太阳，地球，以及他们的相互作用，以及提供有效的推广到更广泛的社区，以促进太阳物理学素养。PI概述了一项为期五年的研究计划，重点是太阳和日光层物理学的基本主题，包括研究日冕磁场的稳定性和准稳态特性，太阳风和IMF的结构和演变，CME的主要原因及其与环境太阳风的相互作用，以及CME驱动冲击的SEPs的产生及其通过日光层的传输。PI预计，这些努力将使他能够以紧密耦合的方式处理基础物理，这可能导致太阳物理研究的重大突破。由于这些主题是相互关联的，PI的目标是协同建模和观察工作，使累积的科学成果大于个人努力的总和。PI旨在将理论和数值模拟与每个专题调查中的相关观测联系起来，以便能够在太阳物理学界产生广泛影响的全面调查。作者旨在吸引当地和全国的太阳物理学学生，并将他们融入这些研究活动。他计划在IfA开发一个新的太阳和恒星磁性研究生课程。PI的愿景包括建立太阳物理学暑期学校，提供外国本科生与IfA的REU（本科生研究经验）学生合作，在IfA创建太阳物理学的研究生和博士后研究助学金，通过讲座和研讨会提供公共宣传，并在美国各地的非博士授予学院展示这些扩展的IfA太阳能研究和教育计划。