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) at La Palma in the Canary Islands.
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.
The capability of measuring the temperatures of the gas in the Sun’s chromosphere with the Atacama Large Millimetre/sub-millimetre Array (ALMA) opened new scientific avenues that laid the foundation for a new branch of research activities at RoCS.
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.
