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B. Chandran

Published: 28 February 2025

recorded Game Changers Online Seminar
with Benjamin Chandran (University of New Hampshire, USA)

Game Changers Online Seminar

Solar Wind

Sun

How Waves and Turbulence Heat the Solar Corona and Accelerate the Solar Wind

Recorded Webinar with Benjamin Chandran (University of New Hampshire, USA)

Over the past few years, the Parker Solar Probe has explored far closer to the Sun than any previous spacecraft.

Abstract

In this talk the speaker presented some of these observations and what they are teaching scientists about the way in which the Sun heats the solar corona and accelerates the solar wind. He also commented on how the solar wind may help us to understand outflows from more distant astrophysical objects, such as the accretion disks that form around black holes.

About the Speaker

Benjamin Chandran earned his bachelor’s degree in physics and history from Yale University and his PhD in Astrophysical Sciences from Princeton University. After working as a postdoc at UCLA, he joined the faculty at the University of Iowa, later moving to the University of New Hampshire in 2005, where he is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. His research focuses on turbulence in plasmas (high-temperature, ionized gases), in space, astrophysical, and laboratory plasmas.

History

Starting in the summer of 2020, the International Space Science Institute has organised the weekly on-line seminar series called “Game Changers”. After six series of weekly talks on the themes of “Missions that Changed the Game in Solar System, Astrophysics and Earth Sciences” , “Ideas and Findings about the Solar System, the Universe and our Terrestrial Environment”, “Habitability – From Cosmic to Microbial Scales”, “Viewing Earth from Space – the Changing Environment and Climate of our Planet”, and “Captivating Cosmology: From the Big Bang to Tomorrow” and the topic “Space Environmental Hazards: Mitigation and Prediction”, the webinar series continues on a monthly basis.

Credits ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Martel