Solar Flares Studies During MAX '91

太阳等离子体能量学不仅适用于天文学家，而且还适用于核聚变容器(托卡马克)以及破坏地球磁球和无线电通信的实际应用。在之前的一个奖项中，首席调查员(PI)将来自X射线卫星和夏威夷地面天文台的同时观测结合在一起，以高时间分辨率跟踪太阳耀斑的发展。他的结果首次表明耀斑等离子体(GAS)中的动量守恒，这一结论对太阳色球和低日冕中的耀斑发展模型提出了重要的限制。新的奖项是基于他的团队长期出色的记录而设立的基于成就的更新奖。这项新工作将把他的工作扩展到许多新的领域，包括携带独立信息的新谱线和对活跃的太阳型恒星的观测。后一个小组的目的是确定导致太阳耀斑产生的某些过程是否在这些恒星中发挥作用，从而推动太阳耀斑物理在研究领域中的地位，该研究领域被称为“太阳-恒星连接”。

Solar plasma energetics is a subject which has applications not only to astronomers but also to practical applications for nuclear fusion containment (tokamaks) and the disruption of the Earth's magneto-sphere and radio communications. In a previous award the Principal Investigator (PI) has combined simultaneous observations from x-ray satellites and the ground observatory in Hawaii to follow the development of solar flares at high time resolution. His results show for the first time that momentum is conserved in flare plasma (gas), a conclusion which puts significance constraints on models of flare development in the solar chromo- sphere and lower corona. The new award is an Accomplishment Based Renewal Award based on the long-term excellent record of his group. The new work will extend his work to a number of new areas, including new spectral lines carrying separate information and observations of active solar-type stars. The latter group is designed to determine whether the extent to which certain processes responsible for solar flare production are at play in these stars, thus advancing the place of solar flare physics in the research area known as the "solar-stellar connection."