Solar magnetic field News

The solar magnetic field is the main driver of space weather, which can cause damage to critical infrastructures like electricity, aviation, and our space-based technology. The main source of severe space weather events are solar active regions, which are regions around sunspots where strong magnetic fields emerge through the solar surface. 

The map of this period corresponding to the solar cycles 15 -19 will help understand the magnetic variability and predict changes in the Sun in the future. The research is led by Director ARIES, Prof Dipankar Banerjee and his team including Dr Bidya Karak from IIT (BHU), a Ramanujan Fellow of DST, and supported by DST and Russian Foundation for Basic Research project through an Indo-Russian Joint Research Program was published in the ‘Astrophysical Journal Letters’ recently.