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WP4 overview:

Training in Space Weather with LOFAR

Rositsa Miteva

IANAO-BAS, rmiteva@nao-rozhen.org

& STELLAR team

STELLAR final conference, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 06-08.07.2023

https://stellar-h2020.eu/index.php/stellar-final-conference/

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952439.

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Contents: WP4

Aim & Overall structure

Tasks & Deliverables:

Results

WP4-T1 => D1

WP4-T2 => D2

WP4-T3 => D3

WP4-T4 => D4

WP4-T5 => D5

  • amendment:

WP4-T6 => D6

WP4-T7

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952439.

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WP4 description

WP4.1-WP4.7

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952439.

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WP4 overall structure (Gantt chart)

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952439.

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(period I: Sep 2020 - Nov 2021)

WP4-T1 Space Weather Training I -

Introduction at Space weather at DIAS

DIAS

T: Jun 2021 (in person) => 12-15 Jul 2021 (virtual)

D: Jul => Aug 2021 (accepted)

https://stellar-h2020.eu/index.php/2021/07/17/the-stellar-space-weather-workshop/

⇨ 57 Participants & 13 Lecturers & mentors

Program: https://lofar.ie/stellar-sww/

16 youtube-video tutorials

Practice tasks, software & code: https://github.com/TCDSolar/STELLAR_SSW_tutorials

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952439.

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(period I => period II: Dec 2021 - Aug 2023)

WP4-T3 Space Weather Training II -

Space Weather with LOFAR at ASTRON

ASTRON

T: Jul => Nov 2021 (in person) => 23-28 Jan 2022 (in person)

D: Aug => Nov => Feb 2022 (overdue)

https://stellar-h2020.eu/index.php/2022/02/18/space-weather-with-lofar-at-astron/

⇨ 5 participants

Dedicated research discussion with:

  • Pietro Zucca,
  • Maaijke Mevius (led to joint visit under PITHIA-NRF project)
  • Harish Vedantham

(lecturers at STELLAR schools)

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952439.

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(period I => period II: Dec 2021 - Aug 2023)

WP4-T2 Staff Visit I to DIAS

(Space Weather Data Analysis)

DIAS (Dublin & Dunsink Observatory)

T: Jul 2021 (in person) => 21-25 Feb 2022 (in person)

D: Nov => Mar 2022 (overdue/missing links)

⇨ 10 participants

  • Research overview talks
  • Discussion on quiet time LOFAR emission
  • Science discussions on 25-08-2014 event

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952439.

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(period II: Dec 2021 - Aug 2023)

WP4-T4 Staff Visit II to ASTRON

(Space weather LOFAR observations)

ASTRON

T: Oct => 14-18 Nov 2022 (in person)

D: Dec 2022 (overdue)

⇨ 5 participants

Dedicated discussions on:

  • LOFAR-BG (with Ronald Halfwek & Nico Ebbendorf)
  • IDOLS (with Mattia Mancini)
  • Ionospheric disturbances due to solar flares (with Maaijke Mevius)
  • Deep learning collaborations (with Oleg Stepanyuk & Mattia Mancini)
  • STELLAR summer school preparations

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952439.

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(period II: Dec 2021 - Aug 2023)

WP4-T5 Space Weather School at IANAO

IANAO

T: May => 19-23 Jun 2022 (in person)

D: Jun 2022 (under preparation)

participants:

13 students (11 - Bulgaria & 2 - UK)

5 IANAO staff

https://stellar-h2020.eu/index.php/lofar_space_weather_school/

lectures & practice materials (to be posted online)

visit to LOFAR-BG site

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952439.

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(period II: Dec 2021 - Aug 2023)

WP4-T5 Space Weather School at IANAO

IANAO

T: May => 19-23 Jun 2022 (in person)

D: Jun 2022 (under preparation)

Topics:

  • Quiet Sun
  • Solar activity
  • Single station studies
  • Ionospheric studies

4 lectures: M. Mevius; P. Zhang; S. Maloney; P. Zucca

2 mentors: K. Beser; M. Nedal

https://stellar-h2020.eu/index.php/lofar_space_weather_school/

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952439.

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(period II: Dec 2021 - Aug 2023)

WP4-T6 Standardization of LOFAR solar pipelines

IANAO (Peijin Zhang)

T: Sep 2021 => Dec 2021-Aug 2022

D: Oct 2022 (overdue)

Lectures training and documents

(1) series of 3 tutorials (how to process LOFAR data): Institute of Astronomy and NAO BAS - YouTube

(2) online document with data processing instructions: Welcome to LOFAR-Sun’s documentation! — LOFAR-Sun 0.1.0 documentation (lofar-sun-tools.readthedocs.io)

Software

(3) setup for supercomputer Discoverer

(4) development of RFI flagging method; quiet-Sun imaging (=> 2 publications)

(5) data processing & imaging of multi-lane type II burst (=> papers in preparation)

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952439.

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(period II: Dec 2021 - Aug 2023)

WP4-T7 Scientific Analyses of LOFAR solar

observations

IANAO (Peijin Zhang)

T: Dec 2021-Feb 2023

no D planned => scientific collaborations & publications

7 publications (2022-2023):

  • 3 with ASTRON only

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11207-022-02042-0

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273117722008122

https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/01/aa42905-21/aa42905-21.html

  • 2 with IANAO and ASTRON (STELLAR project)

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac6b37 (fig. 1)

https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/521/1/630/7036782 (fig. 2)

fig. 2

fig. 1

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952439.

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Knowledge transfer under STELLAR => WP5-T7 Promoting early stage researchers

5 schools + 14 visits/workshops (WP2–WP4)

PhD Students

Mohamed Nedal, Antoaneta Boncheva (IANAO)

Pavlina Aleksieva (TUS)

Jeremy Rigney (DIAS)

other students from Sofia U; Shumen U; other Universities (Varna, EU, UK)

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952439.

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Knowledge transfer after STELLAR

needs for:

  • linux/python skills
  • annual workshops on LOFAR data analysis (plan for 2024)

first announcement:

  • linux/python/sunpy/solar physics/radio astronomy mini workshop (IANAO-Sofia) => 6-10 Nov 2023
  • Astropy workshop for professional astronomers (Sofia Tech Park) => 13-17 Nov 2023

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952439.