SHINE: Analysis of Solar Active Region Energetics Based on Non-Force-Free Coronal Magnetic Field Extrapolation

首席研究员团队将研究太阳活动区动力学，利用一种新的数据分析技术，包括矢量磁图和数据驱动的磁流体动力学模拟，定量评估太阳活动区的力平衡和不平衡、磁能含量和相关非潜在特征的物理特性。结果将产生与矢量磁图和观测到的极紫外日冕环结构一致的非无力磁性溶液。这项研究将利用最好的天基和地面观测资料进行磁成像和日冕环成像，目的是提高我们对太阳活动区非无力磁场的物理理解和预测能力。这些结果将有助于预测太阳大气的动力学以及耀斑和日冕物质抛射发生的可能性，从而对空间天气预报能力产生积极影响。在这项工作中，亨茨维尔阿拉巴马大学的空间等离子体和航空研究中心（CSPAR）将与美国宇航局马歇尔太空飞行中心的太阳物理小组合作，探索可以在美国宇航局新的主要太阳任务中飞行的航天器仪器的发展。通过这种方式，CSPAR的教员将发展在该大学建立和维持一个临界质量研究小组所需的专业知识，加强那里未来空间物理学家的教育和培训。该团队还将与阿拉巴马a&m大学（一所少数族裔服务机构）合作，聘请本科生和研究生作为暑期实习生，以提高他们在空间科学方面的研究经验，从而吸引亨茨维尔社区服务不足和代表性不足的学生群体。

The Principal Investigator's team will investigate solar active region dynamics, utilizing a novel data analysis technique involving vector magnetograms as well as data-driven magnetohydrodynamic simulations, to quantitatively assess the physics of force balance and imbalance, magnetic energy content, and relevant non-potential features in solar active regions. The results will produce a non-force-free magnetic solution consistent with vector magnetograms and with observed coronal loop structures observed in the extreme ultraviolet. This study will exploit the best available space-based and ground-based observations for magnetography and coronal loop imagery, with the goal to enhance both our physical understanding and predictive capabilities for non-force-free magnetic fields in solar active regions.These results will help predict the dynamics of the solar atmosphere and the likelihood of occurrence of flares and coronal mass ejections, and thus it will have positive impact on space weather forecasting capabilities. In this effort, the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) at the University of Alabama at Huntsville will collaborate with the Solar Physics group at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center to explore the development of spacecraft instrumentation that could be flown on new major NASA solar missions. In this way, the CSPAR faculty will develop the expertise needed to build and sustain a critical mass research group at the University, enhancing the education and training of future space physicists there. The team will also engage the under-served and under-represented student population in the Huntsville community in collaboration with Alabama A&M University, a minority-serving institution, by hiring undergraduate and graduate students as summer interns in order to enhance their research experience in space science.