Dr Peter R. Young


Dr Young is a Research Astrophysicist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. His field of research is the study of ultraviolet spectra from the Sun and other stars. Links to Dr Young's publications and projects he is involved with are given below.

Publications
Lectures & talks CHIANTI
Hinode/EIS SOHO/CDS IRIS
Data analysis guides Research Projects Solar Orbiter/SPICE
NASA/GSFC activities
Observing programs HelioIndex

News

6-Jun-2025
New paper: Young et al., 2025, ApJ, "Fe XVIII and Fe XX Forbidden Lines Observed by Solar Orbiter/SPICE."
3-Jun-2025
New paper: Young, 2025, Sol. Phys., "HelioIndex: A Directory of Active Researchers in Solar and Heliospheric PhysicsHelioIndex." See also the website HelioIndex.org.
19-Mar-2025
New co-author paper published: Tajfirouze, Morton & Young, 2025, ApJ, "Hinode/EIS Observation of the Alfvénic Fluctuations in the Quiet Sun."
4-Oct-2024
New co-author paper published: Dufresne, Del Zanna, Young et al., 2024, ApJ, "CHIANTI - An Atomic Database for Emission Lines - Paper. XVIII. Version 11, Advanced Ionization Equilibrium Models: Density and Charge Transfer Effects."
18-Sep-2024
PI of selected 3-year HISFM proposal "The CHIANTI Atomic Database - Essential Infrastructure for Heliophysics."

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Gallery


This movie is from my recent paper. It shows a set of coronal loops at a temperature of around 7 million degrees. The loops brighten due to a solar flare and show a complex pattern of motion, brightening and fading. By the end of the sequence, the cooling loops are notably straighter than they were at the beginning. This indicates a release of magnetic energy during the flare. The white lines show the location of the Solar Orbiter/SPICE spectrometer slit.

Images are from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. The sequence lasts 60 minutes (see time in top-left corner). The box has a size of 87,000 km x 33,000 km. For comparison, the Earth's diameter is 8000 km.

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