REU Site: Space Science and Instrumentation at the University of Alabama in Huntsville

这是REU网站计划的续订。它将为本科生提供暑期研究机会，以解决空间物理问题和与空间物理实验相关的仪器设备。研究课题涉及空间物理和仪器仪表的广泛领域。太阳物理学的主题包括：太阳耀斑的计算机模拟，利用日食期间收集的数据研究日冕，以及日冕物质抛射的模拟。磁层物理学的主题包括：等离子体层中等离子体传输的计算模拟，等离子体层中湍流的模拟，未来小卫星磁力计的开发，利用激光研究空间碎片小物体形成等离子体云的实验室工作。天体物理学的主题包括：使用EUVE、ROSAT和BeppoSAX的数据研究X射线双星。光学和材料科学的主题包括：先进反射镜和成像系统的计算光线跟踪和测试，以及用于研究最高能量宇宙线的轨道广角光收集器项目

This is a renewal of an REU site program. It will provide summer research opportunities to undergraduates to work on problems in space physics and instrumentation related to space physics experiments. Research topics cover a wide area of space physics and instrumentation. Topics in solar physics include: computer modeling of solar flares, studies of the corona using data collected during solar eclipses, and modeling of coronal mass ejections. Topics in Magnetospheric Physics include: computational simulations of plasma transport in the plasmasphere, simulations of turbulence in the plasma sphere, development of magnetometers for future small satellites, laboratory work using lasers to investigate the formation of plasma clouds from small objects of space debris. Topics in Astrophysics include: studies of X-ray binaries using data from EUVE, ROSAT and BeppoSAX. Topics in Optics and Materials Science include: computational ray tracing and testing of advanced mirrors and imaging systems and the Orbiting Wide-angle Light-collector project for studying the highest energy cosmic rays