Patrick Antolin

PhD (Kyoto University)

PhD student (University of Oslo)

Affiliations:

  • Kwasan Observatory,
    Graduate School of Science,
    Kyoto University

    17 Ohmine-cho, Kita Kazan, Yamashina-ku,
    Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, Japan. 606-8471
    Tel: +81 75-581-1235 Fax: +81 75-593-9617

    antolin@kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp

    Supervisors: Kazunari Shibata and Kiyoshi Ichimoto

  • Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics,
    Oslo University

    Sem Saelandsvei 13, P.O.Box: 1029, Blindern,
    N-0315 Oslo, Norway
    Tel: +47 22857569 Fax: +47 22856505

    antolin@astro.uio.no

  • Center of Mathematics for Applications,
    Oslo University

    P.O.Box: 1053, Blindern,
    N-0316 Oslo, Norway

    Supervisors: Mats Carlsson and Viggo Hansteen

    Research Interests:

    Magnetohydrodynamics, plasma astrophysics:

  • Solar MHD
  • Coronal heating
  • Magnetic reconnection
  • Solar jets
  • Coronal rain
  • Prominences

    Publications:

    Master Thesis in Solar Physics (2006)

    Paper: " Predicting observational signatures of coronal heating by
    Alfvén waves and Nanoflares"     (published)

    Paper: "The role of torsional Alfvén waves in coronal heating" (submitted to ApJ)

    Paper: "Coronal rain as a marker for coronal heating mechanisms"

    " Predicting observational signatures of coronal heating by
    Alfvén waves and Nanoflares"     PhD Thesis in Solar Physics (2009), Kyoto University.

    On-going research:

  • Constructing observables for discerning between coronal heating mechanisms.
  • Coronal rain - observation and simulation.
  • " Power spectrum and wavelet analysis as a diagnostic tool for coronal heating" - Work with Y. Taroyan, R. Erdélyi (Sheffield University) and K. Shibata (Kyoto University). Photos (zip files):

    Summer School in Oslo (19 to 29 June 2007). Radiative Transfer and Numerical magnetohydrodynamics. (195 MB)

    Evening at the tea house in Gion (23 October 2007) (193 MB).

    Farewell party of Nakaoka-san (24 October 2007) (5.3 MB)

    Evenings in Kiyamachi (Kyoto). CAWSES international symposium (23-27 October 2007) (8.3 MB).

    Weekend in London (16-17 February 2008)(47 MB)

    Weekend in the south-west of Norway (2-4 May 2008)(52 MB)

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