Sciences and Exploration Directorate

Jack Ireland

(Rsch AST, Solar & Solar Trstrl Std)

Jack Ireland's Contact Card & Information.
Email: jack.ireland-1@nasa.gov
Phone: 301.286.2503
Org Code: 671
Address:
NASA/GSFC
Mail Code 671
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Employer:
NASA

Brief Bio


I am the Project Scientist for the Solar Data Analysis Center (SDAC) and the US Project Scientist for the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO).

Research Interests


Solar flares

Heliophysics: Solar Active Regions

Quasi-periodic pulsations (QPP), prediction of solar flares occurrence.



Application of methods typically developed outside of Heliophysics to problems in Heliophysics.

Heliophysics: Analysis

Signal processing, Bayesian statistical methods, artificial intelligence, web-based visualization, user interface design.


Oscillations in the solar corona

Heliophysics: Solar Active Regions

Detection of oscillations, power spectra analysis, connection to coronal heating.

Current Projects


Helioviewer Project

Inner Heliosphere

The Helioviewer Project enables the visualization of solar physics related data for everyone everywhere.


Virtual Solar Observatory

Novel Data Analysis Development

The Virtual Solar Observatory allows users to search and download data from multiple online data repositories simultaneously.


Linking datasets to papers using artificial intelligence methods.

Novel Data Analysis Development

To automatically provide links to the data analyzed in papers using artificial intelligence methods.


Oscillatory content of active regions.

Solar Active Regions

Automated methods that detect and characterize the oscillatory content of observations of active regions.


Publications


Refereed

2013. "A Community Python Library for Solar Physics (SunPy)." AAS/Solar Physics Division Meeting 44 #.1.36- [Journal Article/Letter]

2013. "Estimating the Properties of Hard X-Ray Solar Flares by Constraining Model Parameters." The Astrophysical Journal 769 [89-10.1088/0004-637X/769/2/89] [Journal Article/Letter]

2013. "Preface." Solar Physics 283 3-4 [10.1007/s11207-013-0254-3] [Journal Article/Letter]

2013. "New Capabilities in Helioviewer Project Clients." AAS/Solar Physics Division Meeting 44 #.1.49- [Journal Article/Letter]

2012. "Helioviewer.org: Solar and Heliospheric Data Visualization." American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #220 220 #207.07- [Journal Article/Letter]

2011. "Helioviewer.org: Simple Solar and Heliospheric Data Visualization." AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 790- [Journal Article/Letter]

2011. "An automated survey of three and five minute oscillations in active regions." AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 1952- [Journal Article/Letter]

2010. "Automated Coronal Seismology: Curvelet Characterization of Probability Maps of Image Data with Oscillatory Signal." AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 1873- [Journal Article/Letter]

2010. "The Many Ways to Access SDO Data." AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 1865- [Journal Article/Letter]

2010. "Automated detection of oscillatory signals in the solar atmosphere: first results from SDO-AIA data." AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts A1615- [Journal Article/Letter]

2010. "Observing the High Energy Sun with CGRO/COMPTEL." Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 41 #404.33- [Journal Article/Letter]

2010. "Preface." Solar Physics 262 233-233 [10.1007/s11207-010-9532-5] [Journal Article/Letter]

2009. "Bayesian analysis of RHESSI spectra." AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 8- [Journal Article/Letter]

2008. "Radiative and magnetic properties of solar active regions. I. Global magnetic field and EUV line intensities." Astronomy and Astrophysics 483 609-621 [10.1051/0004-6361:20078183] [Journal Article/Letter]

2007. "Robust Imaging with RHESSI Data." Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 39 211- [Journal Article/Letter]

2007. "Investigation of Coronal Loop Temperatures using Three EUV Filters and Implications for Future Work with Solar-B." New Solar Physics with Solar-B Mission 369 303- [Journal Article/Letter]

2007. "Correlation of multi-resolution analyses of active region magnetic field structure with flare activity." AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts A1094- [Journal Article/Letter]

2007. "Two New Approaches to Determining Parameter Values to Emission Spectra From RHESSI." AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts A1097- [Journal Article/Letter]

2007. "Multi-scale Tools for Solar Image Processing." AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts A1093- [Journal Article/Letter]

2006. "The Complex Sun: Turbulence and Complexity of the Solar atmosphere." SOHO-17. 10 Years of SOHO and Beyond 617 [Journal Article/Letter]

2006. "How Complex Are Solar Flare Hrx Lightcurves? A Multiscalar Multifractal Approach." Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 38 235- [Journal Article/Letter]

2006. "Investigation of a Color-Color Method to Determine Solar Atmospheric Temperatures along Plasma Loops." Solar MHD Theory and Observations: A High Spatial Resolution Perspective 354 339- [Journal Article/Letter]

2006. "Multiscale Solar Image Processing." AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 369- [Journal Article/Letter]

2006. "A Statistical Model for the Occurrence Times of Coronal Mass Ejections and Solar Flares." AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts A317- [Journal Article/Letter]

2006. "Multiscale Structure of Active Region Magnetic Fields." Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 38 222- [Journal Article/Letter]

2005. "Statistics of the quiet Sun intensity distribution." AGU Spring Meeting Abstracts 11- [Journal Article/Letter]

2005. "From Raw Data to Flare Predictions: A Fully Automated Technique." AGU Spring Meeting Abstracts A6- [Journal Article/Letter]

2005. "Precision Limits to Emission-Line Profile Measuring Experiments." The Astrophysical Journal 620 1132-1139 [10.1086/427230] [Journal Article/Letter]

2005. "Representation of Sun Spots with Shapelets." AGU Spring Meeting Abstracts A7- [Journal Article/Letter]

2005. "Statistics of the quiet Sun intensity distribution." AGU Spring Meeting Abstracts 11- [Journal Article/Letter]

2005. "Indirect calculation of the magnetic reconnection rate from flare loops." Astronomy and Astrophysics 441 353-360 [10.1051/0004-6361:20042255] [Journal Article/Letter]

2005. "Investigation of a Colour-Colour Method to Determine Solar Atmospheric Temperatures Using Soho/eit Data." Chromospheric and Coronal Magnetic Fields 596 - [Journal Article/Letter]

2005. "Applying the CRAMÉR-RAO Lower Bound to Spectroscopic Measurements." The Dynamic Sun: Challenges for Theory and Observations 600 - [Journal Article/Letter]

2004. "Diagnostics of Coronal Heating in Solar Active Regions." Stars as Suns : Activity; Evolution and Planets 219 478- [Journal Article/Letter]

2004. "A Search for Photospheric Sources of Coronal Longitudinal Oscillations." SOHO 13 Waves; Oscillations and Small-Scale Transients Events in the Solar Atmosphere: Joint View from SOHO and TRACE 547 57- [Journal Article/Letter]

2004. "Spatially-Resolved Diagnostics of Coronal Heating in Solar Active Regions." SOHO 13 Waves; Oscillations and Small-Scale Transients Events in the Solar Atmosphere: Joint View from SOHO and TRACE 547 341- [Journal Article/Letter]

2004. "Indirect Calculation of the Magnetic Reconnection Rate from Flare Loops." SOHO 15 Coronal Heating 575 491- [Journal Article/Letter]

2004. "Applying the Cramer-Rao Lower Bound to Spectroscopic Measurements." Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 36 807- [Journal Article/Letter]

2004. "Precision Limits in Line Profile Fitting Experiments." SOHO 15 Coronal Heating 575 587- [Journal Article/Letter]

2004. "Determining the Temperature Profile Along a Plasma Loop II: Detecting Spatial Variations in the Heat Input." SOHO 15 Coronal Heating 575 562- [Journal Article/Letter]

2004. "Determining the Temperature Profile Along a Plasma Loop I: Investigating a Colour-Colour Method for Soho/EIT." SOHO 15 Coronal Heating 575 557- [Journal Article/Letter]

2004. "SOHO 15 Workshop - Coronal Heating." SOHO 15 Coronal Heating 575 - [Journal Article/Letter]

2004. "Longitudinal Oscillations in Coronal Loops - Joint Observations with SOHO/CDS and TRACE." SOHO 13 Waves; Oscillations and Small-Scale Transients Events in the Solar Atmosphere: Joint View from SOHO and TRACE 547 519- [Journal Article/Letter]

2003. "Joint observations of propagating oscillations with SOHO/CDS and TRACE." Astronomy and Astrophysics 404 L37-L41 [10.1051/0004-6361:20030709] [Journal Article/Letter]

2003. "Some theoretical and algorithmic ideas in spectral line fitting problems." Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 35 808- [Journal Article/Letter]

2003. "Inversion of the intensity-magnetic field relationship in solar active regions." Astronomy and Astrophysics 398 297-303 [10.1051/0004-6361:20021616] [Journal Article/Letter]

2003. "The heating of the solar corona." Astronomy and Astrophysics Review 12 1-41 [10.1007/s00159-003-0021-9] [Journal Article/Letter]

2003. "The Magnetic Field and EUV Line Intensities in Solar Active Regions." The Future of Cool-Star Astrophysics: 12th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun 12 [Full Text] [Journal Article/Letter]

2002. "Coronal heating in active regions." From Solar Min to Max: Half a Solar Cycle with SOHO 508 267-270 [Journal Article/Letter]

2002. "The solar corona in cycle 23." Advances in Space Research 29 361-372 [10.1016/S0273-1177(01)00598-1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2002. "Coronal seismology through wavelet analysis." Astronomy and Astrophysics 381 311-323 [10.1051/0004-6361:20011659] [Journal Article/Letter]

2002. "The detection of 3 & 5 min period oscillations in coronal loops." Astronomy and Astrophysics 387 L13-L16 [10.1051/0004-6361:20020436] [Journal Article/Letter]

2002. "Trace observations of propagating slow magneto-acoustic disturbances in coronal loops." From Solar Min to Max: Half a Solar Cycle with SOHO 508 275-278 [Journal Article/Letter]

2002. "Preliminary description of Kanzelhöhe/MDI magnetograms and the search for sources of coronal oscillations." From Solar Min to Max: Half a Solar Cycle with SOHO 508 299-302 [Journal Article/Letter]

2002. "Application of wavelet analysis to transversal coronal loop oscillations." Astronomy and Astrophysics 391 339-351 [10.1051/0004-6361:20020643] [Journal Article/Letter]

2002. "Longitudinal intensity oscillations in coronal loops observed with TRACE I. Overview of Measured Parameters." Solar Physics 209 61-88 [10.1023/A:1020956421063] [Journal Article/Letter]

2002. "Longitudinal intensity oscillations in coronal loops observed with TRACE II. Discussion of Measured Parameters." Solar Physics 209 89-108 [10.1023/A:1020960505133] [Journal Article/Letter]

2002. "Observational evidence of underlying driving of longitudinal oscillations in coronal loops." SOLMAG 2002. Proceedings of the Magnetic Coupling of the Solar Atmosphere Euroconference 505 211-214 [Journal Article/Letter]

2002. "The magnetic fields and the heating of active regions." SOLMAG 2002. Proceedings of the Magnetic Coupling of the Solar Atmosphere Euroconference 505 405-408 [Journal Article/Letter]

2002. "Examination of the photospheric magnetic field underlying longitudinally oscillating coronal loops." SOLMAG 2002. Proceedings of the Magnetic Coupling of the Solar Atmosphere Euroconference 505 429-432 [Journal Article/Letter]

2002. "An overview of longitudinal oscillations in coronal loops." Solar Variability: From Core to Outer Frontiers 506 509-512 [Journal Article/Letter]

2001. "Active Region EUV Intensities, Magnetic Flux and Coronal Heating." AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts A692- [Journal Article/Letter]

2001. "An Observational Test for Solar Atmospheric Heating." Recent Insights into the Physics of the Sun and Heliosphere: Highlights from SOHO and Other Space Missions 203 514- [Journal Article/Letter]

2001. "EUV Line Intensities and the Magnetic Field in Solar Active Regions." Recent Insights into the Physics of the Sun and Heliosphere: Highlights from SOHO and Other Space Missions 203 276- [Journal Article/Letter]

2000. "Quiet Sun Oscillation Packets." Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 32 807- [Journal Article/Letter]

2000. "Observation of oscillations in coronal loops." Waves in Dusty, Solar, and Space Plasmas 537 [Full Text] [Journal Article/Letter]

1996. "Wave heating of the solar corona and SoHO." Annales [Journal Article/Letter]