Space Research Centre, PAS
Exploration of plasma heating and particle acceleration in solar flares from multiwavelength observations and hydrodynamical simulations.
Investigation of plasma heating and particle acceleration during microflares and flare-precursors Physical Engineering
phone no. +48 519 552 411
arun@cbk.pan.wroc.pl
Weak flares are frequent during the evolutionary phase of solar eruptions, and thus can probe the processes responsible for the eruption. However, the energy release mechanism at play during weak flares is elusive!
To further the understanding of physical processes that cause weak flares, it is planned to analyse multi-wavelength observations acquired in the era of high spatial and temporal resolution observations acquired by advanced observatories, for example, Solar Orbiter Mission. Spectrometer Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX) is one of the instruments which was flown onboard the Solar Orbiter mission. STIX is a hard X-ray imaging spectrometer observing in the energy range from 4 to 150 keV. The unique orbit of the Solar Orbiter, allowing the spacecraft to reach as close to the Sun as ~0.3 AU, provides an opportunity to observe weak flares with an improved count statistics. This enables exploring the characteristics of non-thermal plasma during weak flares. Besides, the nature of low-temperature flare plasma will be probed using the concurrent satellites which observe in the wavelengths sensitive to low-temperature plasma. Further, microwave emission and hydrodynamical modelling of coronal loops offer an alternative approach to determining the thermal and non-thermal energetics of the flares. Therefore, I plan to understand the thermal-nonthermal energy partition in the weak flares by analyzing the X-ray and Microwave observations. Finally, it is planned to distinguish the nature of physical mechanisms that lead to strongly non-thermal weak flares compared with those that produce thermal weak flares, and their role in widening the applicability of the energy release scheme of solar flares.
Arun Kumar Awasthi received his Ph.D. from the Physical Research Laboratory, a unit of Indian Space Research Organisation, in 2014. To continue the postdoctoral research he moved to the Institute of Astronomy of the PAS and afterwards, to the University of Science and Technology of China. He joined the Space Research Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2022 to continue his research under the PASIFIC Programme.
Awasthi, A.K., Liu, R., Wang, H., Wang, Y., & Shen, C. (2018). Pre-eruptive Magnetic Reconnection within a Multi-flux-rope System in the Solar Corona. The Astrophysical Journal,857(2), 124.
Awasthi, A.K., Liu, R., & Wang, Y. (2019). Double-decker Filament Configuration Revealed by Mass Motions. The Astrophysical Journal,872(1), 109.
Awasthi, A. K., Jain, R., Gadhiya, P. D., Aschwanden, M. J., Uddin, W., Srivastava, A. K., Chandra, R., Gopalswamy, N., Nitta, N. V., Yashiro, S., Manoharan, P. K., Choudhary, D. P., Joshi, N. C., Dwivedi, V. C., & Mahalakshmi, K. (2014). Multiwavelength diagnostics of the precursor and main phases of an M1.8 flare on 2011 April 22. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,437(3), 2249–2262.
18a Bartycka 00-716 Warsaw, Poland
Supervisor
Tomasz Mrozek, PhD
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