Consolidated Solar and Heliospheric Physics Research at UCLan

This consolidated grant proposal groups together research projects to be carried out within the Solar Physics group of the Jeremiah Horrocks Institute at the University of Central Lancashire. The projects aim to study the outer atmosphere of the Sun, the solar corona, and its associated structures, such as active regions and coronal loops. Solar activity, including solar flares and Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) and the associated energetic particles are also a focus of the research.

The investigations will include:

- analysing whether the rotation of sunspots can provide sufficient energy to power solar active regions and their associated activity, such as solar flares and CMEs.

- studing coronal loops, characteristic of solar active regions, by using high-resolution data from NASA's High resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C) and ESA's Solar Orbiter mission combined with theoretical models.

- analysing how Solar Energetic Particles are accelerated during flares and CMEs and how they propagate through space, by comparing simulation results with data from the Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter missions taken at locations in space near the Sun.