{"id":5020,"date":"2018-12-07T12:37:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T12:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/?p=5020"},"modified":"2018-12-07T12:37:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T12:37:57","slug":"iris-observation-of-the-initiation-of-a-solar-flare-suggests-that-turbulence-helps-to-heat-the-suns-lower-atmosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/?p=5020","title":{"rendered":"IRIS observation of the initiation of a solar flare suggests that turbulence helps to heat the Sun\u2019s lower atmosphere."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\">Science Advances<\/a> article, <a href=\"http:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/advances\/4\/12\/eaav2794.full.pdf\">\u201cThe development of lower-atmosphere turbulence early in a solar flare\u201d<\/a>\u00a0the first observational study of the onset and evolution of solar flare turbulence in the lower solar atmosphere on an <em>unprecedented time scale of 1.7s<\/em> using the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph is presented.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/science_online_cover1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5032\" src=\"http:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/science_online_cover1.png\" alt=\"science_online_cover\" width=\"1323\" height=\"820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/science_online_cover1.png 1323w, https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/science_online_cover1-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/science_online_cover1-1024x635.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/science_online_cover1-484x300.png 484w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1323px) 100vw, 1323px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The work, performed by A&amp;A group members <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/?p=213\">Natasha Jeffrey<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/?p=123\">Lyndsay Fletcher<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/?p=171\">Nicolas Labrosse<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/?p=198\">Paulo Sim\u00f5es<\/a>,\u00a0was published in\u00a0<a class=\"profileLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ScienceAdvances\/?__tn__=%2CdK-R-R&amp;eid=ARBAjp_wHTRRvSVrUWUS5OHgMpNNZwN9aYBL9i6eJlZvWZ9Vov7gTRyl-__L2krCrSo3mX5BANK-p2eo&amp;fref=mentions\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/page.php?id=466979156758080&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK-R-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARBAjp_wHTRRvSVrUWUS5OHgMpNNZwN9aYBL9i6eJlZvWZ9Vov7gTRyl-__L2krCrSo3mX5BANK-p2eo%22%2C%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D\" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show=\"1\">Science Advances<\/a>\u00a0on the 5th December 2018. The flare (image below) occurred on the 6th December 2016.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5025\" src=\"http:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/FigureS1_test2.jpg\" alt=\"FigureS1_test2\" width=\"10000\" height=\"7968\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/FigureS1_test2.jpg 10000w, https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/FigureS1_test2-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/FigureS1_test2-1024x816.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/FigureS1_test2-377x300.jpg 377w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 10000px) 100vw, 10000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The flare observations are consistent with turbulence in the lower solar atmosphere at the flare onset, heating that region as it dissipates. This challenges the current view of energy release and transport in the standard solar flare model, suggesting that turbulence partly heats the lower atmosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Science Advances article, \u201cThe development of lower-atmosphere turbulence early in a solar flare\u201d\u00a0the first observational study of the onset and evolution of solar flare turbulence in the lower solar atmosphere on an unprecedented time scale of 1.7s using &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5020"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5034,"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020\/revisions\/5034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}