AIM

This workshop is planned to have introductory lectures and hands-on sessions on the topic “coronal and interplanetary shocks driven by solar coronal transients”. The introductory lectures would cover basic structure of the Sun, various features and different forms of activities of the Sun, etc. for young researchers to have the basic knowledge about the Sun. In hands-on sessions, participants shall be trained to use and combine data obtained with ground and space based observatories.

Data obtained from GOES, SOHO (LASCO, EIT, etc), STEREO (SECCHI, SWAVES, etc.), SDO (AIA, EVE), ACE space missions and the CDAW catalog (available online at https://cdaw.gsfc.nasa.gov) that contains various parameters of CMEs, difference images, movies, etc. derived from the former, and software provide by the respective space mission shall be used for the analyses. Also, the radioheliograms obtained with the Gauribidanur RAdioheliograPH (GRAPH; available at https://www.iiap.res.in/solarradioimages#Heliogram) and the spectral data obtained with the e-CALLISTO network (http://www.e-callisto.org) shall be combined with those obtained using space missions to study the CME properties in the inner, middle and outer corona, and the shocks generated by them in the corona and interplanetary medium and their various other effects. Software such as Python, IDL, Matlab shall be used to process and analyse the ground based data. Also, participants shall be trained to write new algorithms (using the above software) by expert lecturers to obtain new parameters / science from the data.

Scientists and young researchers from developing countries (viz. India, Africa, Pakistan, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, etc.) would get an opportunity to analyse the data from their own observatories in conjunction with those obtained from above space missions and to utilize different software for the analyses. This is expected to increase research activities in the field of solar coronal transients and their geophysical consequences and also new scientific collaborations across nations. The workshop may also bring in new ideas / proposals to improve future observational facilities.