Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP160102932

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP160102932

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Electrodynamics of magnetic explosions in astrophysics. The project aims to develop a new model for solar flares and pulsars that more realistically describes these phenomena. Solar flares and pulsars involve strong magnetic fields changing rapidly as a function of time, implying enormous inductive potentials. The project aims to show how the inductive field and the plasma response to it can be included in an electrodynamic theory. It plans to apply this theory to solar flares, and show how it can resolve the long-standing ‘number problem’. It also plans to apply the model to pulsars, and show how the long-standing dichotomy between the vacuum-dipole and rotating-magnetosphere models can be resolved by synthesising them. The project intends to combine these ideas into a new model for the most extreme examples of magnetic explosions: superflares and giant bursts on magnetars.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2016

End Date: 31-12-2021

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $440,500.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Astronomical and Space Sciences | Space and Solar Physics | High Energy Astrophysics; Cosmic Rays | Plasma Physics; Fusion Plasmas; Electrical Discharges

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences |

Other Keywords

Astronomical and Space Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | High Energy Astrophysics; Cosmic Rays | Plasma Physics; Fusion Plasmas; Electrical Discharges | Space and Solar Physics

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