NASA/GSFC activities

This page contains documents and links for some activities that I've organized at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) since I arrived in 2015.

Data analysis

IDL plot objects

On 3-Mar-2016 I organized a session to discuss how to use the built-in IDL plot objects. The set of routines I used for the tutorial are available as a gzipped tar file.

Some links for further information are:

IDL plot objects
Making a mp4 movie from IDL

SDO image cut-outs

With Shea Hess Webber I gave a tutorial on 3-Dec-2015 to show how to obtain SDO cutout data from the Stanford JSOC service. Some information about this process is given below.

SDO Data JSOC Export and Cutout Service - Example and Documentation (Hess Webber & Young, 2016)
Guide to obtaining SDO cutouts at the Hinode/EIS wiki

Querying ADS from IDL

On 27-Jul-2017 I gave a demo of some new IDL software that I wrote for querying the ADS abstracts service. I have a short guide to this software.

Meetings and events

SunDC meetings

I co-founded the SunDC series of meetings in 2014 with Brian Dennis. These are 1-day meetings to bring together Solar Physicists in the Washington DC area on a focused science topic. The links below show the agendas for these meetings.

17-Jul-2014 - Solar flares
25-Feb-2015 - Solar eruptive events
14-Oct-2015 - Energy release in solar eruptive events
11-May-2016 - What IRIS is telling us about flare plasma
14-Jul-2017 - Small-scale heating in the solar atmosphere
17-May-2018 - ExoPlanet Space Weather (organized by Vourlidas, Kwon, Raouafi at JHU/APL)
23-May-2019 - Connecting the corona to the solar wind

Spectroscopy club

This is for a group of people in Code 671 who are interested in solar spectroscopy. We have occasional meetings with someone giving an informal presentation about their work. The list of past speakers and topics are given below:

10-Apr-2019	An innovative technique to measure the thickness of coronal loops in the line-of-sight direction	Terry Kucera
27-Mar-2019	The SPICE instrument for Solar Orbiter	Bill Thompson, Terry Kucera, Peter Young
19-Mar-2019	Version 9 of CHIANTI	Peter Young
14-Feb-2019	The EUVST mission concept	Harry Warren
6-Nov-2018	Localized Quasi-Periodic Fluctuations in C II, Si IV, and Fe XXI Emission During Chromospheric Evaporation in a Flare Ribbon Observed by IRIS on 2017 September 9	Jeff Brosius
13-Jun-2018	Spectroscopic Diagnostics of Active Region Jets	Helen Mason
29-Nov-2017	Motions in a Prominence Barb Observed on the Solar Limb	Terry Kucera
7-Nov-2017	Explosive chromospheric evaporation and warm rain in a C3.1 flare observed by IRIS, Hinode/EIS, and RHESSI	Jeff Brosius
25-Jul-2017	Results from the First CLASP Flight	Don Schmit
8-Jun-2017	Slitless imaging spectroscopy	Joe Davila
26-Oct-2016	Opportunities for new spectroscopy missions	Discussion
12-Oct-2016	Jet-excited kink oscillations of coronal loops observed by Hinode/EIS and SDO/AIA	Tongjiang Wang
20-Sep-2016	Material injected along a loop during the 2011 November 5 C9 flare	Andrew Inglis
12-Apr-2016	Modeling the near-ultraviolet line and continuum emission in solar flare spectra from IRIS	Adam Kowalski
22-Mar-2016	Report on the ALMA-DKIST-IRIS meeting	Sarah Jaeggli
18-Feb-2016	Solar UV bursts - summary of a recent ISSI meeting	Peter Young
19-Jan-2016	Calibration for the EUNIS-13 rocket flight	Adrian Daw & AJ Ancheta
1-Dec-2015	Giving names to numbers - Line identification in IRIS reference spectra	Sarah Jaeggli
27-Oct-2015	Intensity Conserving Spectral Fitting: A New Tool for Spectroscopic (and other) Analysis	Jim Klimchuk
2-Oct-2015	Slitless spectroscopy	Joe Davila
10-Aug-2015	Sunspot loops observed with IRIS	Peter Young & Bernhard Fleck

Workshops

On 2018 February 8 I organized a 1-day workshop at Goddard titled "Collaborative studies of the 10 September 2017 X-flare". There were 21 attendees and there were talks on the data obtained by EOVSA, RHESSI, Fermi, IRIS and Hinode/EIS - see the agenda. Some movies related to this event are available at http://files.pyoung.org/movies/20170910/.

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