User:CoronalMassAffection

Hello. I am here to improve the solar and plasma physics articles. I occasionally contribute to articles relating to other subjects.

My real name is Trestan, and I use he/him pronouns. I have been editing solar and plasma physics articles since I was a 15-year-old high school student. I am now an undergraduate at the University of Colorado Boulder and a researcher assistant at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. My activity here and on other Wikimedia sites is not supported by these institutions, and all of my contributions are made of my own accord.

My username is the term coronal mass ejection with ejection swapped for the rhyming word affection and the spaces omitted. (It is unrelated to the media franchise with the homophonic title Mass Effect.)

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Articles

• Active region
• Alfvén's theorem
• Bastille Day solar storm
• Coronal hole
• Coronal mass ejection
• Force-free magnetic field
• Hale's law
• Helmet streamer
• Magnetic buoyancy
• Magnetic pressure
• Magnetic tension
• Magnetic topology
• Magnetohydrodynamics
• Magnetosonic wave
• SOLAR-C
• Solar coordinate systems
• Solar facula
• Solar flare
• Solar jet
• Solar particle event
• Solar prominence
• Solar magnetogram
• Wilcox Solar Observatory

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Media

The following media are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license unless stated otherwise.

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  Diagram illustrating Hale's law
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  Diagram illustrating Joy's law across the solar disk
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  Diagram illustrating Joy's law for an individual sunspot group
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  Diagram of the perturbations of MHD Alfvén waves
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  Polar diagram of the phase velocity of MHD waves
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  Diagram illustrating magnetic tension
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  Diagram illustrating magnetic pressure
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  Diagram illustrating a common derivation of Alfvén's theorem

To do

My primary goal for 2024 is to improve the following vital Sun-related articles. I hope to get them to WP:FA quality as a personal goal for NASA's Heliophysics Big Year. I intend to begin making progress in the summer.

1. Solar flare
2. Solar wind
3. Coronal mass ejection
4. Sunspot
5. Solar storm
6. Solar prominence

I also spend time working on the following tasks (organized by subject but listed in no particular order).

Sun related

• Clean up Solar cycle 23, Solar cycle 24, and Solar cycle 25
• Add to Active region
• Create Quiet Sun region
• Add to Solar prominence
• Add to Coronal hole
• Create solar storm infobox, User:CoronalMassAffection/Infobox solar storm
• Clean up Wolf number
• Clean up Babcock Model
• Update info in Coronal seismology
• Update Moreton wave (rename to EUV wave? EIT wave? Check for existing drafts)
• Clean up Solar granule
• Create Mesogranulation
• Add to Supergranulation
• Clean up Evershed effect
• Clean up Hyder flare
• Clean up Stellar atmosphere
  • Clean up Photosphere
  • Clean up Chromosphere
  • Clean up Solar transition region
  • Clean up Stellar corona
  • Add to Alfvén surface
• Expand Solar jet

Plasma related

• Fundamentals:
  • Clean up Plasma parameters
  • Clean up Vlasov equation
  • Clean up Magnetohydrodynamics
  • Add to Two-fluid model (disambiguate?)
  • Add to Moment closure
  • Clean up Fluid parcel
  • Reconcile Gyroradius and Cyclotron resonance
  • Reconcile Induction equation and Magnetic diffusion
• Related to Magnetic reconnection:
  • Clean up Current sheet
  • Clean up Flux tube (elaborate on flux ropes)
  • Clean up Plasmoid
  • Rewrite Magnetic energy
  • Add to Magnetic topology
  • Clean up Force-free magnetic field
  • Clean up Magnetic helicity and Woltjer's theorem (add info on Woltjer–Taylor relaxation)
  • Create diagram for and clean Magnetic pressure
  • Create Magnetic Mach number (or Alfvén Mach number) and Magnetosonic Mach number
• Related to Waves in plasma: create diagrams for and clean Alfvén wave, Magnetosonic wave, etc.
• Related to Plasma stability: add to magnetic buoyancy, etc.
• Clean up Shocks and discontinuities (magnetohydrodynamics) (rename? Generalize to plasma?)