Studying solar irradiance variations using full-disk indices from continuum, UV, magnetic field and spectrographic data from ground and space-based images

This work addresses at least two components needed to support development of space-based TSI and SSI data sets as specified in Amendment No. 31 of program element A.49. The San Fernando Observatory?s (SFO) precision photometric processing on both SFO and Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) images creates irradiance proxies that 1) help determine r...

Strengthening Equitable Culturally Responsive Environments" (SECURE) for Student Success": Using a Servingness Model to Support Hispanic and Underrepresented Students

"Strengthening Equitable Culturally Responsive Environments? (SECURE) for Student Success?: Using a Servingness Model to Support Hispanic and Underrepresented Students? is designed to expand the number of Hispanic and underrepresented (URM) students in Art, Health Sciences, Engineering, Computer Science and the STEM disciplines and...

Collaborative Research: SHINE: Study of Long-Term Variability of Solar Chromospheric Activity in Multiple Solar Cycles

This 3-year SHINE project is aimed at building a multi-decadal database of H-alpha images using various sources and studying the long-term variation in the database to understand the cyclic behavior of the solar activity. The three project teams will study the statistical properties of filaments, track differential rotation and meridional flows, and investigate the chirality-he...

Three-dimensional thermal and magnetic structure of sunspots and active regions

The main goal of this 3-year project is to investigate the thermal and magnetic structure of sunspots by using simultaneous high-resolution observations of magnetic field and mass motion at different heights in the solar atmosphere. The project will shed more light on four major science topics, namely: (i) three dimensional magnetic structure of sunspots; (ii) three dimensional thermal structure of sunspot; (iii) effe...

Solar Spectral Irradiance Iyman Alpha Magnesium and Sigma K (SSIAMESE)

In addition to continuing to add to the image and solar indices database, our primary work will be to make SFO's data more widely accessible to the community for use in solar irradiance studies. This also involves working with LASP team members to integrate our data with those of other institutions, both domestic and international.

MRI: Development of a Solar Photometric Instrument: Cartesian Full Disk Telescope-3 (SOPHI-CFDT3)

The main thrust of this 3-year MRI project is to develop a second-generation of photometry program at the San Fernando Observatory (SFO) that is built upon the strong foundation laid by the original program. This would yield photometric studies of the Sun, which is a powerful tool for modeling and understanding solar variability. The current solar cycle 24 demonstrates that solar variability is still...