Expanded Owens Valley Solar Array

@EOVSANJIT EOVSA is ok but power will be out until DWP can repair our power line.

@EOVSANJIT #AirportFire caused a mandatory evacuation of the observatory as well as East Big Pine. The site is without power so we won’t know much until people can check this morning.

Magnetic Reconnection during the Post-impulsive Phase of a Long-duration Solar Flare by S. Yu et al. dlvr.it/RkQK7M

Observations of the powerful solar flare of 10 September 2017 show that the relativistic electrons are confined and/or accelerated at the bottom of the current sheet, not at the reconnection X point. Chen et al.: nature.com/articles/s4155…

Now on to the RHESSI workshop ... next talk by Dale Gary from @NJIT showing some spectacular observations from the EOVSA radio telescope ... around the scientific world we go ...