New research funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) uses early data from the largest ground-based solar telescope in the world.
It is hoped that the work will pave the way for future studies to enable a better understanding of the potential risks to key power and communications infrastructure.
The study, which is published in in Astrophysical Journal Letters, was conducted as part of the science verification phase of the Visible Spectropolarimeter (ViSP) instrument at the National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope. It is the first to use data from this instrument.
As such, this exciting collaboration between the UK and National Science Foundation marks an important milestone for the astronomical community and this ground-breaking telescope.
