CAREER: Next Generation Solar Instrumentation: High-Resolution Observations of Small-Scale Magnetic Fields

Investigator(s):

Carsten Denker (PI)

Sponsor:

Foundation @ NJIT, New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ 07102 9735965275

Start Date/Expiration Date

2003-07-01 to 2006-06-30 (amended 2005-03-31)

Awarded Amount to Date:

$255,466

Abstract: A Near InfraRed Imaging Magnetograph (IRIM) and a real-time image reconstruction system will be designed, developed, and deployed by the PI and student assistants. The effort capitalizes on the new Center for Solar Research (CfSR) optical laboratories, which present an ideal environment to involve students in a coordinated program of instrument construction and research. After the instruments are deployed at the Big Bear Solar Observatory, which is operated by the New Jersey Institute of Technology, the gathered data will be used to support research and thesis projects. The scientific objective of these instruments is to resolve some of the fundamental length and time scales of solar magneto-convection. Ultimately these intrinsic scales are related to the global aspects of solar variability and therefore to basic physical processes on the sun that affect the Earth environment, i.e., communications technology, the power grid, civil and military assets, humans in space, and in the end, the terrestrial climate.

NSF Org:

ATM - Division of Atmospheric Sciences

Award Number:

0236945

Award Instrument:

Continuing grant

Program Manager:

Paul Bellaire
ATM Division of Atmospheric Sciences
GEO Directorate for Geosciences

NSF Program(s):

SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

Field Application(s):

Space

Program Reference Code(s):

COMMUNICATIONS PROGRAM, 9179
FACULTY EARLY CAREER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, 1045

Program Element Code(s):

1523