Stephen White is primarily a solar radio astronomer. Radio emission can probe every part of the Sun's atmosphere, from the chromosphere just above the solar surface to the corona in which solar flares accelerate electrons to high energies and coronal mass ejections travelling at thousands of kilometers per second drive shocks. These phenomena can be seen with CARMA at millimeter wavelengths, with the Nobeyama Radio Heliograph and the Very Large Array at centimeter wavelengths, and with the Nancay Radio Heliograph and the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope at meter wavelengths. |
Dynamics of the Solar Chromosphere
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Green Bank Solar Radio Burst Spectrometer Stephen White is also a participant in the Frequency Agile Solar Radiotelescope (FASR) project, a proposal to the NSF Atmospheric Sciences division of the National Science Foundation to build a radio telescope that will make images of the Sun at high spatial and temporal resolution from 100 to 20000 MHz. |
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