Project description
Exploring the mysteries of solar eruptions
Solar eruptions can release massive amounts of energy, impacting space weather and posing risks to satellites and astronauts. However, the connections between key solar events (coronal mass ejections, X-ray flares, and solar energetic particle events) are not well understood. Scientists struggle to explain how these events interact and accelerate particles to high energies. Understanding these processes is essential for better predicting space weather. The EU-funded SOLER project is tackling this challenge by studying these eruptions in detail. SOLER will link their characteristics, examine their magnetic connections, and create tools and datasets for further research. Using data from ESA, NASA, and other sources, the project aims to advance solar science.
Objective
The SOLER project will investigate energetic solar eruptions starting from three perspectives: fast coronal mass ejections (CMEs), strong X-ray flares, and large solar energetic particle (SEP) events. Key parameters of the eruptions will be determined and their interrelations examined to improve our understanding on how the eruptive phenomena are linked, how they interact with each other, and how they result in acceleration of high energy particles and their release from the solar corona into interplanetary space. Large-amplitude coronal waves and shocks related to these events as well as magnetic connections of the radiation sources with the in-situ observers will be in focus as well.
SOLER will answer three science questions:
– What are the magnetic connections between EM radiation sources in the low corona and in the high corona and how are they connected to the particle radiation observed in situ?
– What is the relation of the properties of the in-situ SEP observations with the source characteristics and between the source characteristics themselves?
– What are the reasons for the large variations in SEP properties and associated flare and CME characteristics?
Related to these scientific questions, SOLER has also technical objectives. SOLER will:
– deliver interlinked catalogues of strong flares, fast CMEs and large SEP events.
– deliver new tools for analysing and visualising solar eruption datasets and modelling results and distribute them openly to the scientific community.
– produce several high-level multi-instrument datasets and distribute them openly to the scientific community.
SOLER will use ESA, NASA and national mission data along with ground-based observations, and a variety of innovative data and image processing techniques together with cutting-edge models. SOLER analysis activities will directly lead to dozens of scientific publications. Catalogues, datasets and tools will be openly available for the community for further exploitation of data.
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinator
20014 Turku
Finland