Research

Current projects

Overview of active space instrumentation and solar flare data-analysis work. Project pages follow a shared template with content in Markdown under `src/content/research/`.

Current Space Instrumentation projects

SEUSHI

Solar Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrograph and High-energy Imager — a compact multipinhole soft X-ray imager and grazing-incidence EUV spectrograph on a shared camera, aimed at flare/CME early alerts and coronal diagnostics. A technology-demonstration version is in development for the SDO-EVE calibration sounding rocket.

Current Data Analysis Projects

HOPE

Hot Onset Precursor Event (HOPE) research — statistical soft X-ray studies of flare onsets and nowcasting methods that use HOPE signatures for earlier flare alerts, including machine-learning extensions for high-impact flares.

Related themes

DAXSS

Dual-zone Aperture X-ray Solar Spectrometer (third-generation MinXSS / DAXSS) — soft X-ray spectral observations used for flare-onset and HOPE analysis, active-region abundance studies, and related solar SXR irradiance science.

Hard X-ray Instrumentation

Compact hard X-ray / high-energy solar instrumentation development connected to SEUSHI photon-counting SXR spectroscopy and related space-weather photometer concepts (including an awarded LASP IRD hard X-ray photometer effort).