Proposal Information

Name:
Stephen Marsden
Title:
Understanding the magnetic dynamo in young Suns
Project Description:
The Sun's spots, flares, prominences and coronal mass ejections provide us with graphic demonstrations of the importance of magnetic phenomena in a stellar atmosphere. These phenomena have been observed on young solar-type stars but on a much larger scale. We study these young Suns to gain a better understanding of the underlying processes that drive stellar magnetic fields and activity cycles.