Abstract Details


Name: Mithun N. P. S.
Affiliation: Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad
Conference ID: TVS202510231
Title: The X-ray Sun: A Spectroscopic Perspective
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Abstract Type: Invited by SOC
Abstract: The first detection of X-rays from the Sun was obtained in the late 1940s from rocket observations, only a few years after the confirmation that the Sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, has temperatures of the order of a million Kelvin. Further observations with rocket-based instruments to more sophisticated dedicated solar observatories over several decades have contributed to our present understanding of the X-ray Sun. Observations in X-rays provide diagnostics of aspects such as the coronal heating, matter and energy transport across layers of the solar atmosphere, and thermal and non-thermal processes in solar flares. In this talk, I will review the recent advances in the X-ray observations of the Sun, particularly with spectroscopy, and what we learned from them, with a glimpse at future possibilities.