Title:	Physics of the solar atmosphere
DNr:	SNIC 2020/6-133
Project Type:	SNIC Medium Storage
Principal Investigator:	Jorrit Leenaarts <jorrit.leenaarts@astro.su.se>
Affiliation:	Stockholms universitet
Duration:	2020-07-01 – 2021-07-01
Classification:	10305
Homepage:	http://isf.astro.su.se
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Abstract

In 2014 the Department of Astronomy at Stockholm University has started a theoretical/computational solar physics group. Currently it consists of an associate professor, two re- searchers, three postdocs and four PhD students. The aim of the group is to understand the physics of the atmosphere of the Sun. Magnetism underlies much of the activity and dynamics of the solar atmosphere. Observations with observatories such as SDO, IRIS and the Swedish Solar Telescope show an intricate structure and dynamics form the smalls observable scale to the size of the entire Sun. These phenomena are ultimately driven by the nuclear fusion in the solar centre and the enigmatic solar dynamo. The physics of the atmosphere is complex, encompassing the interaction of (polarised) radiation and matter, magneto-hydrodynamics and plasma physics. Understanding the observations in terms of the physics thus requires intricate theoretic modelling. The project "Physics of the solar atmosphere" aims to contribute to our understanding of the solar atmosphere through (1) radiation-MHD modelling of the atmosphere, (2) precise modelling of the spectral lines from these MHD models that can be directly compared to observations and (3) inversion of observations. Inversion is an iterative technique where an atmospheric structure is derived that is consistent the observed spectral line profiles. The group uses a variety of codes for which the PI and Co-I are co-developers. All codes have been run before on both SNIC and non-SNIC supercomputers. We are performing regular production runs on SNIC resources and have published 16 refereed papers using SNIC resources in 2018-2020. We expect to submit ~10 papers to refereed journals during 2020-2021 We ask for a total of 550,000 hours per month on Beskow and/or Tetralith.