Presentation
SOLARNET brings together and integrates the major European research infrastructures in the field of high-resolution solar physics, in order to promote their coordinated use and development. This network involves all pertinent European research institutions, infrastructures, and data repositories. Together, these represent first-class facilities. The additional participation by private companies and non-European research institutions maximizes the impact on the world-wide scale.
Networking activities, access to first-class infrastructures and joint research and development activities are being carried out in SOLARNET to improve, in quantity and quality, the service provided by this European community.
In summary, SOLARNET involves:
More than 500 solar physics researchers.
32 partners from 16 countries: 24 EU research institutions; 6 EU private companies; 2 USA research institutions.
SOLARNET Project achievements will be of paramount relevance to contribute towards the realisation of the 4m European Solar Telescope (EST).
Latest News
- Solarnet Access time: First call for proposals 2019
- 31 March 2017. Bye Bye SOLARNET! Welcome PRE-EST!
- 30 March 2017. SOLARNET End-of-Project meeting (Madrid, March 30-31, 2017)
- 20 January 2017. The IV SOLARNET Meeting finished today in Arrecife, Lanzarote.
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This project is supported by the European Commission´s FP7 Capacities Programme for the period April 2013 – March 2017 under the Grant Agreement number 312495.
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XXIX IAU General Assembly FM13: Brightness Variations of the Sun and Sun-like Stars.
The XXIX IAU General Assembly will be held August 3-14, 2015 in Honolulu, Hawaii.
We invite contributions to the Focus Meeting 13 “Brightness Variations of the Sun and Sun-like Stars” scheduled for August 5-6, 2015.
The Focus meeting will address the following key topics:
1. Measurements of solar irradiance variability.
2. Stellar variability on rotational time scales; Kepler and Corot measurements.
3. Stellar variability on activity cycle time scales; ground based observations.
4. Physical mechanisms and models of solar and stellar brightness variability.
5. The photometric signature of magnetic activity: darker or brighter?
6. Is the Sun a solar-type variable?
7. Constraining dynamo models using solar and stellar variability records.
8. Influence of solar and stellar variability on Earth and other planets.
9. Stellar variability as a limiting factor for detectability of extra-solar planets.
Agenda:
Session 1: Observing solar and stellar variability
Session 2: The solar-stellar connection
Session 3: Modelling solar and stellar variability
Session 4: The impact of solar and stellar variability on their environment
Invited speakers confirmed to date include Suzanne Aigrain, Gibor Basri, Fabienne Bastien, Benjamin Beeck, Paul Charbonneau, Rim Fares, Mark Giampapa, Edward Guinan, Jeff Hall, Lisa Kaltenegger, Heidi Korhonen, Dibyendu Nandi, Steven Saar, Sami Solanki, Remi Thieblemont, Tom Woods.
Scientific Organizing Committee: Gibor Basri (co-chair), Arnab Rai Choudhuri, Jie Jiang, Philip Judge (co-chair), Greg Kopp, Natalie Krivova (co-chair), Stephen Marsden, Katalin Olah, Pascal Petit, Alexander Shapiro (co-chair), Yvonne Unruh.
The deadline for abstract submission is March 18, 2015.
Please visit astronomy2015.org/abstracts for abstract submission and further information.
The official website of the Focus meeting is astronomy2015.org/focus_meeting_13.
More information can be found at www2.mps.mpg.de/projects/sun-climate/iau_fm13.html.
