Welcome to our project home page
Project Team Leader: Professor Valery M Nakariakov (University of Warwick, UK)
Project Team Deputy Leader: Professor R. Erdélyi (University of Sheffield, UK)
The study of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves and oscillations in plasma structures of the uppermost and hottest layer of the solar atmosphere, the corona, is one of the most rapidly developing topics of space physics and astrophysics. The interest to coronal waves is primarily connected with the role they are believed to play in the heating of the coronal plasma and acceleration of the solar wind, the processes fundamental for our understanding of solar-terrestrial relations. Also, the oscillations are used as natural probes for determining the mean physical parameters of the corona, in the method of MHD coronal seismology. Our research team is composed of international experts in theoretical and observational solar coronal physics. The project aims at the studies of coronal waves and oscillations with the emphasis on the multi-wavelength and multi-instrument observational programmes, creation of theory-led data analysis techniques and the investigation of the possible extension of the above mentioned approach to the lower regions of the solar atmosphere. The joint effort will result into original research tasks and into a joint review paper on the current trends in the coronal and low atmospheric wave study and its perspectives. The project began on the 1st of January, 2007.
The first workshop took place on the 26th of March - 2nd of April, 2007.
The second workshop took place on the 18th to the 23th of August, 2008.
At the moment, the team is working on the Topical Issue "Solar Coronal Seismology" of the Space Science Reviews Journal (Guest Editors:
Valery Nakariakov & Robertus Erdelyi).