Graz Space Research Institute - Solar Physics Group (Austria)
Description: The Space Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Institut für Weltraumforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, IWF-OeAW) covers Austrian activities in Solar System Exploration, in Near-Earth Space Plasma Physics, and in Satellite Geodesy. It is involved in many international space projects, such as Cassini/Huygens, Mars Express, Rosetta, Venus Express, Cluster, DoubleStar, THEMIS, COROT, STEREO, Hinode, BepiColombo, Solar Orbiter, and cooperates with the European Space Agency (ESA), with national space agencies in the US (NASA), in France (CNES), in Japan (JAXA), and in China (CNSA), and with more than 100 research institutes worldwide.
IRSES project team, referred in the proposal as Solar Physics Group (SPG), is a relatively young and quickly growing subdivision. The group appears a product of research cooperation between the Department of Extraterrestrial physics at the Space Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Physics of the Karl Franzens University in Graz, Austria. It has its roots in both institutions and its members benefit from the inter-institute creative and stimulating research environment. Among the main directions of research in SPG team are: 1) Analysis of wave propagation, energy release and dynamical processes in the solar atmosphere; 2) Modelling of the dynamics of coronal magnetic loops and prominences; 3) Development of models and interpretation of observations of solar flares and CMEs 4) influence of enhanced solar EUV and X-ray radiation, coronal mass ejections and related intense solar proton/electron fluxes on planetary thermospheric and ionospheric structure and dynamics.
Role of the team in the project: Our team will play major role in analyses of observational data and theoretical modelling of MHD instabilities in the solar atmosphere. We will also take part in fulfilment of all work-packages. The group will contribute to the final knowledge base by their results achieved and will take part in the development of SOW/SPW monitoring and forecasting system.
- Organization: Space Research Institute (Austria)
- Group name: Solar Physics Group (SPG)
- Department/division: Extraterrestrial Physics
- Leader of the IRSES team: Teimuraz Zaqarashvili, Dr.
- Other contact person: Dr. Mykhaylo Panchenko
- Address: Schmiedlstrasse 6, A-8042, Graz
- Tel: +43 316 4120 672
- Fax: +43 316 4120 690
- E-mail: teimuraz.zaqarashvili@oeaw.ac.at