Solar Physics From Unconventional Viewpoints

Physics: From Quarks to Solar Cells

Infrared Solar Physics

The infrared solar spectrum contains a wealth of physical data about our Sun, and is explored using modern detectors and technology with new ground-based solar telescopes. The scientific motivation behind exploring these wavelengths is presented, along with a brief look at the rich history of observations here. Several avenues of solar physics research exploiting and benefiting from observation...

New Insights into Solar Wind Physics from Soho

The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) was launched in December 1995 with a suite of instruments designed to answer long-standing questions about the Sun’s internal structure, its extensive outer atmosphere, and the solar wind. This paper reviews the new understanding of the physical processes responsible for the solar wind that have come from the past 8 years of SOHO observations, analy...

Solar Physics Publication Ethics Policies

An effective, ethical publication process in peer-reviewed journals, such as Solar Physics, requires professional behaviour from the authors, referees, and editors and good collaboration among all. Although lapses of ethical conduct are rare in the solar physics community, breaches do arise, and we wish to share our thinking on these issues, which is very much in line with that of other journal...

Astroparticle physics with solar neutrinos

Solar neutrino experiments observed fluxes smaller than the expectations from the standard solar model. This discrepancy is known as the "solar neutrino problem". Flux measurements by Super-Kamiokande and SNO have demonstrated that the solar neutrino problem is due to neutrino oscillations. Combining the results of all solar neutrino experiments, parameters for solar neutrino oscillations are o...