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The Next Decade in Observational Solar Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

J. M. Beckers
J. M. Beckers*
Affiliation:
Sacramento Peak Observatory, AFCRL, Sunspot, N.M. 88349, U.S.A.

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The last two decades have been exceptionally fruitful for astrophysics. Because of very rapid developments, especially in the area of observational astrophysics, our view of the Universe has been substantially completed, challenged and altered. Solar Physics has very much been part of this progress. Developments in space and ground-based technology have virtually completely opened up the entire spectrum of solar electromagnetic and corpuscular radiations. Electromagnetic radiation of the sun can now be studied from gamma ray wavelengths shorter than 10-4 Å to radio wavelengths as long as 1014 Å, a range of approximately 60 octaves. Continuing improvements of spatial resolution of the Sun at all these wavelengths and concommitant development of our theoretical understanding of both the radiative and magneto-hydrodynamic processes on the Sun have made solar physics an exciting field to those interested in the Sun per se, as well as to those who view the Sun as a star whose study aids us in the understanding of astrophysics in a broader sense.

A committee of The National Academy of Sciences in the United States under the chairmanship of J. L. Greenstein conducted between 1969 and 1971 a study of the needs of astronomy in the next decade. I took part in this study and it is probably because of this that I was asked to give this review on the next decade in observational solar physics. This review is therefore partly based on the results of the discussions in that committee and in its solar panel. Most of this review will reflect, however, my own opinions.

Type
Selected Papers
Information
Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 3: Highlights of Astronomy. As presented at the XVth General Assembly of the IAU, 1973 , 1974 , pp. 149 - 169
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1974

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