Nicolina Chrysaphi

chrysaphiPhD Student

I conduct research focused on the observation and analysis of radio emissions from the Sun, under the supervision of Professor Eduard P. Kontar.  I am particularly interested in the physical mechanisms defining the morphological characteristics of Type II radio bursts which are excited by shock waves associated with Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs).  I also study the radio-wave scattering effects in the solar corona to better understand the observed radio emissions.  I have utilised data from several instruments including SDO/AIA, SOHO/LASCO, GOES/XRS, and LOFAR.

Refereed Publications:

  1. Chrysaphi, N., Kontar, E. P., Holman, G. D., and Temmer, M. (2018). CME-driven Shock and Type II Solar Radio Burst Band Splitting. ApJ, 868, 79. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aae9e5. [arXiv]
  2. Kontar, E. P., Chen, X., Chrysaphi, N., Jeffrey, N. L. S., et al. (2019). Anisotropic Radio-wave Scattering and the Interpretation of Solar Radio Emission Observations. ApJ, 884, 112. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab40bb. [arXiv]
  3. Chrysaphi, N., Reid, H. A. S., and Kontar, E. P. (2020). First Observation of a Type II Solar Radio Burst Transitioning Between a Stationary and Drifting State. ApJ, 893, 115. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab80c1. [arXiv]
  4. Kuznetsov, A. A., Chrysaphi, N., Kontar, E. P., and Motorina, G. (2020). Radio Echo in the Turbulent Corona and Simulations of Solar Drift-pair Radio Bursts. ApJ, 898, 94. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aba04a. [arXiv]
  5. Chen, X., Kontar, E. P., Chrysaphi, N., Jeffrey, N. L. S., Gordovskyy, M., Yan, Y., and Tan, B. (2020). Subsecond Time Evolution of Type III Solar Radio Burst Sources at Fundamental and Harmonic Frequencies. ApJ, 905, 43. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abc24e. [arXiv]

Authored open-source code:
1. scattering_shift.pro – Added to the SolarSoftWare (SSW) library.

Room 604
School of Physics and Astronomy
Kelvin Building
University of Glasgow
G12 8QQ
Scotland

Email: n.chrysaphi.1@research.gla.ac.uk
ORCID: 0000-0002-4389-5540

Tel: +44 141 330 2960
Fax: +44 141 330 8600