Correlations of matter, magnetism, and electromagnetism on the sun
Thank you for the clear explanation. It seems there is a measure of choice and artistry involved. I looked just now and hte Neptune M is a Sony IMX178 sensor, I have two of those that are mono/color. packaged as ZWO. I only use them to look at the noise, I have about 40 cameras of different sorts and in the last ten years have talked to many of the camera module suppliers. Some of the noise in cameras is external and comes from different sources. I am working out the optimal way to process arrays of sensors to track gravitational noise from different sources.
Some of the methods from atomic clocks, atom interferometer gravimeters, Bose Einstein gravimeters and other desktop and handheld sized sensors should eventually replace LIGO. But 1000 times smaller. Robert Forward was instrumental in getting the laser interferometer going. I met his advisor at Maryland College Park, Joe Weber. You might have seen his cylindrical aluminum gravitational wave detectors. Joe showed me his lab, but urged me not to follow him, rather read everything that Robert Forward was doing. So I did. In his dissertation, Detectors of Dynamic Gravitational Waves, Robert explained how to merge gravity and electromagnetism. And both Robert and Joe said they wanted to use if for communication, and for moving things. They were the quintessential engineers of that time.
The sun is well monitored now, and the models are fairly simple. The data is accessible if not easy. So I wanted to see if I could focus earth based arrays on the surface of the sun in small regions, and then correlate with electromagnetic sensors. One suggestion I had was to use the massive data and pipelines of many pixel and better resolution pixels to improve sensitivity. The MEMS gravimeters now can track the sun and moon. The superducting gravimeters that cost $250,000 each back 20 years ago when I used them, now can be fabricated for 1000th the cost and chips size. But whatever nano and microscale sensor, it would be used in mega-sensor and giga-sensor arrays — to get the advantage of using lots of independent sensors for statistics.
Now there are time of flight detectors for gravity, so that too has changed the game, since determining direction make separating and mapping sources easier. The biggest thing I learned was that gravity at high frequencies is much easier to detect and use. Low frequency gravitational sensors (human audio frequencies) are blunt instrument and low data rate. But GigaSamples per second single sensor or small cluster. Or MegaFrames per second at MegaPixles per frame can do better. I wrote much of that on ResearchGate. But I am 75 and getting tired. Robert and Joe are both dead now. Most of the people I met in various universities are gone. The groups are working on different sensors. I keep asking the quantum computing groups to save their noise recording because much of what they do get is all gravitational noise, after they exclude internal noise. I am just summarizing here to remind myself. I have been at this since 1978, but I started studying the gravitational potential in 1970 when I was using it to track all the satellites in orbit in my first full time job.
Now I cannot afford the sensors I want to use, so I was thinking of looking at the thermal images of the sun, the surface velocity and electron density. Now I cannot afford the sensors I want to use, so I was thinking of looking at the thermal images of the sun, the surface velocity and electron density. The lenses used for laser cutting machines block visible, UV and NIR. But let through the (LWIR) Those are a lot less expensive than H alpha and something I have not seen anyone look at yet. DIY filters and methods allow more people to play the game.
