PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST ASIA-PACIFIC SOLAR PHYSICS MEETING
Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, India
March 21-24, 2011
Editors: Arnab Rai Choudhuri and Dipankar Banerjee
Contents
Cover [PDF]
The cover illustration shows the first light image of a sunspot obtained by the
New Vacuum Solar Telescope (NVST) located at Fuxian Lake, China (Courtesy: Zhong Liu)
Preface [PDF]
Foreword[PDF]
Organizing Committees[PDF]
Participants[PDF]
Conference Photograph[PDF]
I. Facilities and instruments for observing the Sun
1 Hinode "A new solar observatory in space"
[PDF] Saku Tsuneta
9 1-meter near-infrared solar telescope
[PDF] Z. Liu and J. Xu
19 Optical observational programs at the Indian Institute of
Astrophysics
[PDF] Jagdev Singh and B. Ravindra
31 Introduction to the Chinese Giant Solar Telescope
[PDF] Y. Y. Deng(On behalf of the CGST Group)
37 National Large Solar Telescope of India
[PDF] S. S. Hasan
47 A dual Fabry-Perot based narrow band imager for the National
Large Solar Telescope
[PDF] B. Ravindra and Ravinder Kumar
Banyal
55 Low frequency solar radio astronomy at the Indian Institute
of Astrophysics (IIA)
[PDF] R. Ramesh
63 SoLEXS - A low energy X-ray spectrometer for solar coronal
studies
[PDF] K. Sankarasubramanian, M. C.
Ramadevi, Monoj Bug, C. N. Umapathy, S. Seetha, P. Sreekumar and Kumar
II. From the solar interior to the surface
71 Solar differential rotation: origin, models and implications
for dynamo
[PDF] L. L. Kitchatinov
81 Dynamics of active region flux tubes in the solar convection
zone
[PDF] Y. Fan
91 Dynamo models of the solar cycle: current trends and future
prospects
[PDF] Dibyendu Nandy
101 Helicity of solar active regions
[PDF] Hongqi Zhang
117 Parity of solar global magnetic field determined by turbulent diffusivity
[PDF] H. Hotta and T. Yokoyama
123 Modeling the irregularities of solar cycle using flux transport dynamo models
[PDF] Bidya Binay Karak
131 Back-reactions of dynamo-generated magnetic fields: torsional oscillations and variations in meridional circulation
[PDF] Arnab Rai Choudhuri
137 Alpha effect due to magnetic buoyancy instability of a
horizontal magnetic layer
[PDF] Piyali Chatterjee
143 Quenching of the alpha effect in the Sun - what
observations are telling us
[PDF] R. H. Cameron
149 A physical reconstruction of solar magnetic field since
1700
[PDF] J. Jiang and D. Schmitt
155 Hemispheric helicity sign rule and its solar cycle
dependence
[PDF] M. Zhang, J. Hao and C. Y. Wang
163 Solar cycle variation of network magnetic elements
[PDF] J. X. Wang and C. L. Jin
169 On the diagnostics of the quiet Sun's magnetic fields:
application of the SIR inversion to the full-disk Stokes-meter
observations in 15 spectral lines
[PDF] M. L. Demidov and H. Balthasar
175 Long-term variation of solar surface differential rotation
[PDF] L. Zhang, K. Mursula, I. Usoskin,
H. Wang and Z. Du
181 Sunspot seismology: accounting for magnetohydrodynamic wave
processes using imaging spectropolarimetry
[PDF] S. P. Rajaguru
189 Variations in p-mode parameters and sub-surface flows of
active regions with flare activity
[PDF] R. A. Maurya and A. Ambastha
197 A study of the north-south asymmetry of sunspot area during
solar cycle 23
[PDF] Partha Chowdhury and B. N.
Dwivedi
III. The solar atmosphere and the corona
203 Modelling magnetic fields in the corona using nonlinear
force-free fields
[PDF] M. S. Wheatland and K. D. Leka
213 The contraction of flare loops and its impact on the solar lower atmosphere
[PDF] Haisheng Ji
221 Alfvén waves are easy: mode conversion in magnetic regions
[PDF] P. S. Cally
229 "EIT waves" and coronal mass ejections
[PDF] P. F. Chen and C. Fang
241 Coronal mass ejections and their heliospheric consequences
[PDF] N. Gopalswamy
259 A new view of coronal structures: implications for the
source and acceleration of the solar wind
[PDF] S. R. Habbal, H. Morgan and M. Druckmüller
271 Transient induced MHD oscillations: a tool to probe the
solar active regions
[PDF] Abhishek K. Srivastava, V. M.
Nakariakov, B. N. Dwivedi and Pankaj Kumar
279 Chromospheric evaporation seen in hard X-rays
[PDF] Z. J. Ning
285 Differential coronal rotation and solar activity
[PDF] Satish Chandra and Hari Om Vats
291 Magnetic field configurations leading to solar eruptions
[PDF] Hui Li
297 Multi-wavelengh diagnostics of precursor phase in solar
flares
[PDF] Arun K. Awasthi and Rajmal Jain
307 Driving mechanism of a failed eruption
[PDF] Y. Guo, M. D. Ding, B. Schmieder,
H. Li, T. Török and T. Wiegelmann
315 On the triggering of M-class solar flare due to loop-loop
interaction in AR NOAA 10875
[PDF] Pankaj Kumar, Abhishek K.
Srivastava, B. V. Somov, P. K. Manoharan, R. Erdélyi and Wahab Uddin
323 Study of solar flares and filament interaction in NOAA
10501 on 20 November, 2003
[PDF] R. Chandra, B. Schmieder, C. H.
Mandrini, P. Démoulin, E. Pariat, T. Török, G. Aulanier, W. Uddin and M.
G. Linton
331 MHD simulations of quiescent prominence upflows in the
Kippenhahn-Schlüter prominence model
[PDF] A. S. Hillier, H. Isobe, K. Shibata and T. E. Berger
SPECIAL SECTION
IV. Growth of solar physics in the Asia-Pacific region
339 Introductory remarks
[PDF] Arnab Rai Choudhuri
343 History and progress of solar research in China
[PDF] C. Fang
355 The early years of solar research in Japan
[PDF] E. Hiei
367 Solar physics in India: developments from the nineteenth
century to the present era
[PDF] S. S. Hasan, Arnab Rai Choudhuri
and S. P. Rajaguru
383 Recent activities of solar astronomers in Korea
[PDF] K.-S. Cho, J. Chae, Y. J. Moon
and G. S. Choe
393 Solar physics research in Taiwan
[PDF] C.-H. Lin and Dean-Yi Chou
397 Solar physics research in Australia
[PDF] P. S. Cally, M. S. Wheatland, I.
H. Cairns and D. B. Melrose
405 Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute of Uzbek Academy of
Sciences – history and current status of solar physics research
[PDF] Sh. Ehgamberdiev and A.
Serebryanskiy
411 Conference summary: Asia-Pacific region in the world and in
astronomy
[PDF] T. Sakurai