Stellar and Solar Physics

Our team aims at providing answers to some key questions of solar and stellar physics, such as the heating process of the corona or the structure of solar and stellar interiors. The magnetic field playing a fundamental role in structuring the atmospheres of solar-type stars, it becomes possible to understand the coupling between the internal generation of magnetic field and its external signatures. The two major research topics are thus the dynamic and internal structure of the Sun and stars, and diagnostic and heating of the outer layers.

Dernières news

Mercury transit on November the 11th, 2019

5 years 5 months ago

During the Mercury transit on November the 11th, 2019, IAS researchers and the ALCOR astronomy club will organize an afternoon with observations of the Sun, conferences, and workshops. This event will take place on the University campus at the new physics teaching building, "hbar" (building 625).

Solar Orbiter ready to depart Europe

5 years 6 months ago

ESA’s Solar Orbiter mission has completed its test campaign in Europe and is now being packed ready for its journey to Cape Canaveral at the end of this month, ahead of launch in February 2020.

Successful launch of CLASP-2

5 years 12 months ago

The CLASP-2 telescope was successfully launched on April 11th 2019 by a sounding rocket from White Sands Missile Range (New Mexico, USA). The objective of the CLASP (Chromospheric LAyer SPectropolarimeter) project is to measure the magnetic field in the solar chromosphere using spectro-polarimetric measurements in the ultraviolet.

Miho Janvier awarded the SF2A Young Lecturer-Researcher Award

6 years 9 months ago

On July 4, 2018, at its annual conference held in Bordeaux, the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics (SF2A) awarded the Young Lecturer-Researcher 2018 Award to Miho Janvier, assistant astronomer at IAS. Her research focuses on solar flares, from their birth to their propagation in interplanetary space.

Clara Froment has been awarded the European Solar Physics Division PhD Thesis Prize

7 years 7 months ago

The European Solar Physics Division Prize Committee has awarded its 2017 PhD Thesis Prize to Clara Froment, in recognition of her Thesis on the coronal heating problem and study of the physical nature of long-period pulsations in coronal loops, which was undertaken at the IAS. The ceremony took place during the 15th European Solar Physics Meeting in Budapest on September 7, 2017.

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