The Institute for Solar Physics is operated as an independent institute, under the auspices of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, but is associated with Stockholm University through Stockholm Observatory.
We operate the Swedish 1-meter Solar Telescope (SST) on La Palma, currently the largest high-resolution solar telescope in the world.
| 20 Mar 2009: Alfvén waves |
Apr 2008: CRISP |
30 May 2007: Corona |
13 Sep 2006: Faculae |
28 Jul 2004: Spicules |
8 Jun 2004: Venus transit |
17 Jun 2003: 3D granulation |
7 May 2003: Mercury transit |
2002: Best ever view of sunspots |
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| Science 323(5921) (20 March 2009) |
The new Imaging SpectroPolarimeter | NASA press release | Nature 443 (13 Sep 2006) |
Nature 430 (29 Jul 2004) |
Nature 420 (14 Nov 2002) |
April 2010 - The Institute for Solar Physics congratulates NASA and the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) team for the successful first light event. Watch the wonderful movies and images of the solar corona at the SDO site.
June 2008 - Göran Scharmer is the first winner of the European Atronomical Society's newly created Tycho Brahe Prize. The prize will be awarded to Prof. Scharmer at the opening ceremony at the next European meeting in September.
April 2008 - The new CRisp Imaging SpectroPolarimeter (CRISP) is installed and ready for observations. See some images!
January 2008 - There is one open 3-year Post doc position with our institute. In addition we have funds for several traineeships (up to 6 months long).
April 2007 - Pit Sütterlin has joined the SST staff as Support Astronomer. For the 2007 season he will still have DOT duties but will help with SST matters as time permits.
13 September 2006 - An image from the SST is on the front page of Nature, illustrating an article about the explanation for solar faculae.
18 May 2006 - You can apply for observing time on the Swedish 1-meter Solar Telescope as well as the other solar telescopes in La Palma and Tenerife under the CCI international programme. Deadline 30 June 2006. See http://www.iac.es/gabinete/cci/tisol1.htm.
4 January 2006 - There are a number of positions open for PhD students and other post-graduate work at our institute as well as in Oslo and Utrecht. Deadline for a first round of applications: 28 February 2006.
20 October 2005 - Uppsala University announced that it will confer the degree of Honorary Doctor of Science to Göran Scharmer on 27 January 2006.
1 September 2005 - Boris Gudiksen, our former PhD student, has been awarded the "Naturvetarepris" for the best PhD dissertation ("The coronal heating problem") in physics in Sweden during 2004 from The Swedish Association of Scientists (Naturvetareförbundet). We are extremely proud of his accomplishments and convey our warmest congratulations.
28 April 2005 - A position is available for a Research Fellow at the Institute for Solar Physics. Deadline 20 May.
9 March 2005 - The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences decided to give Mats Löfdahl the Strömer-Ferrner award. Mats will receive the award on 11 May.
September 2004 - Göran Scharmer is the 7th Lennart Nilsson Award winner. He will receive the prize on 4 November 2004. Congratulations, Göran!
July 2004 - A position is available for a PhD student, who will do a thesis project in observational solar physics using the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope. Deadline 15 September.
30 June 2004 - The deadline for observing time proposals under the ITP is 30 June.
8 June 2004 - Venus transit was observed with the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope.
5 March 2004 - Boris Gudiksen defended his PhD thesis, "The coronal heating problem". Well done, Boris!
14 January 2004 - A study grant is available for a PhD student, who will do a thesis project in observational solar physics using the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope. Deadline 4 February.
18 December 2003 - We are looking for a new software engineer to work at the SST in La Palma. Deadline 31 January.
12 December 2003 - We gratefully acknowledge a generous grant of SEK 5.8 million from the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation (Marianne och Marcus Wallenbergs stiftelse) to be used for SST instrumentation.
15 October 2003 - Ghanjah Skĺnby-Mansour presented her masters's thesis project, The fine structure of penumbral grains.
17 June 2003 - 3D structures imaged near solar limb!
25 April 2003 - First light with new AO system.
17 January 2003 - Luc Rouppe van der Voort successfully defended his thesis in solar physics. Congratulations, Luc!
14 December 2002 - We make the Dark Core scientific data set public. More data to come from this location: http://www.solarphysics.kva.se/data/.
14 November 2002 - Our Letter in Nature, "Dark cores in sunspot penumbral filaments", is published.
October 2002 - Diffraction limited images: The new Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST) produced diffraction limited images already on May 22, its second day of full aperture operation. We have collected beautiful data sets during the summer. Please return after 19:00 UT on November 13, when we will make first results (published as a Letter in Nature), images and movies public.
21 May 2002 - Full aperture: The new telescope is now used with the full 1-m aperture.
5 April 2002 - Schupmann corrector works: G-band images with secondary optics installed. Still with a stopped down aperture (60 cm).
March 2002 - Back in business: First light with the secondary optics of the new telescope installed. Still with a stopped down aperture (60 cm).
March 2002 - First light: The new solar telescope saw First Light on Saturday 2 March. The aperture was stopped down to 60 cm pending installation of the cooling system and the adaptive optics.
