Prominence Activity during the 2006 Total Solar Eclipse

Solar radiation during a total solar eclipse

The Total Solar Eclipse of March 2006: overview

This paper provides the overview of an integrated, multi-disciplinary effort to study the effects of the 29 March 2006 total solar eclipse on the environment, with special focus on the atmosphere. The eclipse has been visible over the Eastern Mediterranean, and on this occasion several research and academic institutes organised co-ordinated experimental campaigns, at different distances from ec...

Evidence of gravity waves into the atmosphere during the March 2006 total solar eclipse

This study aims at providing experimental evidence, to support the hypothesis according to which the movement of the moon’s shadow sweeping the ozone layer at supersonic speed, during a solar eclipse, creates gravity waves in the atmosphere. An experiment was conducted to study eclipse induced thermal fluctuations in the ozone layer (via measurements of total ozone column, ozone photolysis rate...

Broadband Spectroscopy during the Total Solar Eclipse of March 29 , 2006

The eclipse of March 29, 2006 attracted the University of Hawaii eclipse team to the desert plateau near Waw an Namus, Libya. The eclipse was successfully observed with three experiments. One of these experiments, a broadband spectrometer, was entirely student designed, built, and run as part of the Astronomy 699 project. In this paper the details of the broadband spectrometer experiment and it...

Search for neutrino radiative decays during a total solar eclipse

We present the results of the measurements performed in the occasion of the 2001 total solar eclipse, looking for visible photons emitted through a possible radiative decay of solar neutrinos. We establish lower limits for the ν2 and ν3 proper lifetimes above 10 s/eV, for neutrino masses larger than 10 eV.