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The Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research operates Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) in California, which houses the highest-resolution solar optical telescope in the world at 1.6 meters. With its state-of-the-art adaptive optics and scientific instrumentation, the telescope obtains high-resolution views of the Sun’s surface features, such as sunspots, filaments, faculae, granulation, spicules and jets. Its instruments measure the magnetic fields and motions of these features to understand the basic physics of solar activity that affect the Earth and near-Earth technological systems. Through the BBSO telescope, NJIT scientists have explored how twisted magnetic fields interact to produce the sudden release of energy that powers solar flares, and the response of the solar plasma to such energy releases. Using data from multiple NASA solar spacecraft and advanced computer modeling, we are developing an understanding of fundamental processes that improve our ability to predict the occurrence and outcomes of such solar activity on the Earth.
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Wenda Cao
- Center For Solar Terrestrial Research - Big Bear Solar Observatory - Professor, Director
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Bin Chen
- Center For Solar Terrestrial Research - Big Bear Solar Observatory - Assistant Professor
- Physics
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Gregory Fleishman
- Center For Solar Terrestrial Research - Big Bear Solar Observatory - Research Professor
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High Resolution Studies Of Solar Activity Using The 1.6-Meter Telescope In Big Bear
6/15/18 → 5/31/23
Project: Research project
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3D Magnetic And Thermal Structure Of Active Regions Of The Sun
9/1/18 → 8/31/21
Project: Research project
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Revealing Evolution Of Electrons And Magnetic Field In Solar Flares
6/1/18 → 5/31/21
Project: Research project
Research output
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Agile collaboration: Citizen science as a transdisciplinary approach to heliophysics
Ledvina, V., Brandt, L., MacDonald, E., Frissell, N., Anderson, J., Chen, T. Y., French, R. J., Di Mare, F., Grover, A., Battams, K., Sigsbee, K., Gallardo-Lacourt, B., Lach, D., Shaw, J. A., Hunnekuhl, M., Kosar, B., Barkhouse, W., Young, T., Kedhambadi, C., Ozturk, D. S., & 5 others , 2023, In: Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences. 10, 1165254.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Crowdsourced Doppler measurements of time standard stations demonstrating ionospheric variability
Collins, K., Gibbons, J., Frissell, N., Montare, A., Kazdan, D., Kalmbach, D., Swartz, D., Benedict, R., Romanek, V., Boedicker, R., Liles, W., Engelke, W., Mcgaw, D. G., Farmer, J., Mikitin, G., Hobart, J., Kavanagh, G. & Chakraborty, S., Mar 28 2023, In: Earth System Science Data. 15, 3, p. 1403-1418 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Multi-point study of the energy release and impulsive CME dynamics in an eruptive C7 flare
Saqri, J., Veronig, A. M., Dickson, E. C. M., Podladchikova, T., Warmuth, A., Xiao, H., Gary, D. E., Battaglia, A. F. & Krucker, S., Apr 1 2023, In: Astronomy and Astrophysics. 672, A23.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access