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Then and there: the paleo solar wind and stellar coronae of exo-planetary systems

TYPEAstrophysics Seminar
Speaker:Dr. Ofer Cohen
Affiliation:Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Date:10.11.2010
Time:14:30
Location:Lidow 620
Abstract:

In recent years, a state of the art global magnetohydrodynamic model has been developed and widely used to study the solar corona, as well as to serve as a prototype for a space weather forecasting system. This highly sophisticated model however, can also be implemented to problems other then the current Sun.
Here I show two simulations. One is of the young, active Sun, its solar wind and the impact on the paleo-Earth magnetosphere. The second is of the plasma environment in a stellar corona hosting a hot-Jupiter, where I study the dynamics of the system due to the planetary orbital motion, as well as the impact of a Coronal Mass Ejection on the planet.