Latest News
HAO's HiWind Balloon has Launched
Yesterday, the weather conditions in Wanaka, NZ proved favorable for a successful HiWind (SN11) launch. The HAO staff received this news with great jubilation. We are proud and grateful for your achievement!
Holly Gilbert awarded the 2025 Irene González Hernández Prize
HAO is proud to announce that our director, Holly Gilbert, is the recipient of the 2025 Irene González Hernández Prize. As quoted from the SPD website announcement..."The Irene González Hernández Prize, established in 2024, celebrates mid-career scientists for transformative contributions to solar research, leadership, and community service." Congratulations Holly!
Cutting-edge SPIn4D project combines AI and Astronomy
Matthias Rempel, et al. combine cutting-edge solar astronomy with advanced computer science to analyze data from the world’s largest ground-based solar telescope located atop Haleakalā, Maui. See featured story from the University of Hawaiʻi News. The team’s research recently published in Astrophysical Journal focuses on their development of deep learning models that rapidly analyze vast amounts of data from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope.
Latest Research Highlights
A deep learning framework for instrument-to-instrument translation of solar observation data
R. Jarolim, A. M. Veronig, W. Pötzi, and T. Podladchikova recently developed a new deep learning framework for Instrument-To-Instrument translation of solar observation data, enabling homogenized data series across multi-instrument datasets. The study demonstrates that the available data sets can directly profit from instrumental improvements, by applying the method to four different applications of ground- and space-based solar observations.
Changing methodologies in solar physics
Philip Judge: For the first time, the methods in solar physics are reviewed using statistical methods. This study attempts to establish a basis for understanding how methods used in research in solar physics have evolved since WWII.
Penetrating electric field with/without disturbed electric fields During the 7-8 July 2022 geomagnetic storm simulated by MAGE and observed by ICON MIGHTI
Qian Wu, Dong Lin, Wenbin Wang, Kevin Pham, Liying Qian, Haonan Wu, Thomas J. Immel, and Erdal Yigit, using a numerical model, simulated the nighttime ionospheric disturbances caused by electric fields that enter this system from the magnetosphere and electric fields generated internally by changes in the thermospheric winds.