Laura A. Hayes

    Research Fellow

     

    Main Research Fields

    My research currently involves using Solar Orbiter observations to better understand high-energy processes that occur in solar flare energy release. In particular I focus on using X-ray observations from the STIX instrument to study quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) in solar flare emission. 

    My other research interests include:

    • Multi-wavelength observations of the solar corona; X-ray, radio, EUV, white-light + combining remote sensing with in-situ measurements
    • Space weather; solar flare statistics and forecasting + ionospheric impacts of solar flares
    • Open-source software development; see sunpy.org
    • Solar-stellar connection of flares (e.g. quasi-periodic pulsations observed in both solar and stellar flare emission)

     


    Ongoing collaborations

    Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies (DIAS), Ireland

    NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA

    American University (AU), Washington DC, USA

    Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Publications

    Please see here for a list of my publications 

    Project/mission at ESA

    Solar Orbiter

    Contact

    Email: laura.hayes@esa.int

    Twitter: @laura_hayess