606 Weltraumwetter
606 Weltraumwetter (Space weather)
Contact person: Dr. Dominik Bomans --- GAFO 03/973 --- email: bomans@astro.rub.de
Temporary supervisor: Anatolii Zenin --- GAFO 03/382 --- email: zenin@astro.rub.de
The experiment is only offered in English at the moment. Presence in person is welcome, but not necessary. The experiment can be done remotely.
In this experiment the students will learn about the interaction between the Sun and the Earth, about several types of notable solar phenomena, basic physics of the atmosphere and ways to study solar activity. They will use a setup based on a radio antenna together with data from satellites to detect solar flares and evaluate their impact on our planet. Students will deal with large amounts of data that they will have to plot and study, and it is highly recommended to use Python-based Jupyter notebooks with Numpy, Pandas and Matplotlib libraries. Basic knowledge in plasma physics and solar physics will be useful.
