To reach the ambitious goal of modelling the active sun, we need new codes that are radically different from the codes that we have so far been using to investigate the solar atmosphere.
The Bifrost code is designed to model the outer layers of the Solar (or stellar) atmosphere and aims to include all the relevant physics needed to interpret and understand the observations.
RoCS has an agreement with the Institute for Solar Physics in Stockholm which gives us observing time at the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST), located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma in the Canary Islands.
The millimeter and radio emission of the Sun and stars provides complementary diagnostics of the thermal and magnetic structure of their outer atmospheres. Recent and ongoing technological advances are expanding this diagnostic window, which is being actively exploited at RoCS.
