Dr. Norbert Magyar
Position: Visiting Academic
Supervisor:
Funding: Newton International Fellowship of the Royal Society
Education
PhD in Mathematics, , Dept. of Mathematics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, September 2018
PhD thesis:
MSc in Computational Physics, , Universitatea "Babe葯 - Bolyai", Cluj-Napoca, Romania, July 2014
MSc thesis: Numerical simulations of transverse coronal loop oscillations in cooling plasma
Research Interests
Dr. Norbert Magyar is currently interested in MHD turbulence, nonlinear aspects of MHD wave dynamics, coronal physics, coronal seismology. Persistent unsolved problems which are targeted are the coronal heating and solar wind acceleration problem, and the nature of solar wind turbulence.
Fellowships granted
- PhD fellowship of the Flemish Science Fund (), 2014.
- Newton International Fellowship of the , 2019.
- Postdoctoral fellowship of the Flemish Science Fund (), 2020.
Prizes
Dr. Norbert Magyar was awarded the 2019 PhD Prize of the European Solar Physics Division (ESPD):
"for significant contributions, using 3D magneto-hydrodynamics numerical experiments, to the study of waves and their relation to turbulence in the solar corona, in the framework of the PhD thesis"
Publications
[1] Van Doorsselaere, T., Li, B., Goossens, M., Hnat, B., and Magyar, N., 鈥淲ave Pressure and Energy Cascade Rate of Kink Waves Computed with Els盲sser Variables鈥�, The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 899, no. 2, 2020. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aba0b8.
[2] Magyar, N. and Nakariakov, V. M., 鈥淪tanding Kink Waves in Sigmoid Solar Coronal Loops: Implications for Coronal Seismology鈥�, The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 894, no. 2, 2020. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ab8e36.
[3] Magyar, N., Van Doorsselaere, T., and Goossens, M., 鈥淯nderstanding Uniturbulence: Self-cascade of MHD Waves in the Presence of Inhomogeneities鈥�, The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 882, no. 1, 2019. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab357c.
[4] Pant, V., Magyar, N., Van Doorsselaere, T., and Morton, R. J., 鈥淚nvestigating 鈥淒ark鈥� Energy in the Solar Corona Using Forward Modeling of MHD Waves鈥�, The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 881, no. 2, 2019. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab2da3.
[5] Magyar, N., Van Doorsselaere, T., and Goossens, M., 鈥�The Nature of Els盲sser Variables in Compressible MHD鈥�, The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 873, no. 1, 2019. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab04a7.
[6] Krishna Prasad, S., Raes, J. O., Van Doorsselaere, T., Magyar, N., and Jess, D. B., 鈥淭he Polytropic Index of Solar Coronal Plasma in Sunspot Fan Loops and Its Temperature Dependence鈥�, The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 868, no. 2, 2018. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aae9f5.
[7] Magyar, N. and Van Doorsselaere, T., 鈥淎ssessing the Capabilities of Dynamic Coronal Seismology of Alfv茅nic Waves through Forward Modeling鈥�, The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 856, no. 2, 2018. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aab42c.
[8] Kuehner, O., et al. 鈥�Formation Heights of HINODE SOT/BFI Filters鈥�, Central European Astrophysical Bulletin, vol. 42, 2018.
[9] Terradas, J., Magyar, N., and Van Doorsselaere, T., 鈥淓ffect of Magnetic Twist on Nonlinear Transverse Kink Oscillations of Line-tied Magnetic Flux Tubes鈥�, The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 853, no. 1, 2018. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aa9d0f.
[10] Magyar, N., Van Doorsselaere, T., and Goossens, M., 鈥淕eneralized phase mixing: Turbulence-like behaviour from unidirectionally propagating MHD waves鈥�, Scientific Reports, vol. 7, 2017. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-13660-1.
[11] Magyar, N. and Van Doorsselaere, T., 鈥淒amping of nonlinear standing kink oscillations: a numerical study鈥�, Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 595, 2016. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201629010.
[12] Magyar, N. and Van Doorsselaere, T., 鈥淭he Instability and Non-existence of Multi-stranded Loops When Driven by Transverse Waves鈥�, The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 823, no. 2, 2016. doi:10.3847/0004-637X/823/2/82.
[13] Mandal, S., Magyar, N., Yuan, D., Van Doorsselaere, T., and Banerjee, D., 鈥淔orward Modeling of Propagating Slow Waves in Coronal Loops and Their Frequency-dependent Damping鈥�, The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 820, no. 1, 2016. doi:10.3847/0004-637X/820/1/13.
[14] Van Doorsselaere, T., Antolin, P., Yuan, D., Reznikova, V., and Magyar, N., 鈥淔orward modelling of optically thin coronal plasma with the FoMo tool鈥�, Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, vol. 3, 2016. doi:10.3389/fspas.2016.00004.
[15] Utz, D., Van Doorsselaere, T., K眉hner, O., Magyar, N., Calvo Santamaria, I., and Campos Rozo, J. I., 鈥淔ulfilling Magnetostatic Conditions in Numerical Simulations of Expanding Flux Tubes鈥�, Central European Astrophysical Bulletin, vol. 40, pp. 9–22, 2016.
[16] Magyar, N., Van Doorsselaere, T., and Marcu, A., 鈥淣umerical simulations of transverse oscillations in radiatively cooling coronal loops鈥�, Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 582, 2015. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201526287.
[17] Mocanu, G., Magyar, N., Pardi, A., and Marcu, A., 鈥淎ppearance of an accretion disc perturbed by fractional Brownian Motion density鈥�, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 439, no. 4, pp. 3790–3797, 2014. doi:10.1093/mnras/stu229.
