Ground-Based Solar Research An Assessment and Strategy for the Future (1998) / Chapter Skim
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A number of the fundamental scientific challenges noted above require spatial and temporal resolution and long-term synoptic coverage that can only be realistically achieved through a program of ground-based observations. Groundbased solar research programs provide easy accessibility to facilities for the entire solar-physics community and are a means for the hands-on education of the next generation of solar researchers.
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Wilson, Stanford-Wilcox, Big Bear, San Fernando, and Marshall Space Flight Center have an important role in this effort. · Studying the solar interior and the generation of magneticfields by mapping subsurface flows and interior magnetic fields through long-term helioseismological observations; and · Observing the interaction of convection, magrteticfields, and radiative transfer by imaging with high spatial, temporal, and spectral resolution.
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For example, vector magnetograms are recorded by the University of Hawaii's Mees Solar Observatory, California State University Northridge's San Fernando Solar Observatory, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, and the New Jersey Institute of Technology's Big Bear Solar Observatory. ~ Similarly, the Stanford University Wilcox Solar Observatory specializes in low-resolution magnetograms designed to show the current sheet separating the northern and southern magnetic hemispheres of the Sun and the large-scale surface velocity patterns.
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Although much of the current solar data analysis and theoretical work continues to be done in universities and national institutes with NSF funding, today an increasing amount of solar physics research is conducted at institutes and universities that focus more on space-based projects, with only indirect attention to ground-based studies supported by research and technology contracts from NASA. Thus, for example, the Big Bear Solar Observatory, the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, and others reflect the changing pattern away Tom research traditionally supported by NSF to research onented toward space-based observations of the Sun for which there is support.
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are losing or have lost tenured solar faculty. Institutions such as the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Montana State University have stepped in with new faculty hires, but the task group remains concerned about the trend away from traditional ground-based solar research and the likely effect on training for the next generation of graduate students.
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, using existing radio observatories to demonstrate its scientif c potential. The FASR would provide unique diagnostics of solarflare plasmas detect and locate the myriads of microflares and provide maps of magnetic fields over surfaces of constant density within active regions Recommendations Regarding Data, People, Programs, and Institutions The four recommendations above relate to priority actions for major observing facilities.
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solar observing facilities. Recommer~datio`2 7: Develop a collaborative NSF and NASA distributed data archive with access through the World Wide Web.
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