Study Of The Quiet Solar Extreme Ultraviolet Emission and its Flaring Properties

Solar flare and other extreme ultraviolet (EUV) emission research predominantly focuses on large scale events due to their potentially catastrophic effects on our modern technology. This study focuses instead on the contributions of the quiet sun. We examined the correlation between the EUV emissions from small scale events, and fluctuations in the radio spectra and flux detected by the FIELDS instrument onboard Parker Solar Probe (PSP). We processed data from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) through TrackPy, a software package that can identify points of maximum EUV emission and track their evolution across the solar disk over time. To account for the time delay between the two instruments, we used a rolling windowed time lagged cross correlation. We found several strong correlations between the AIA and PSP data. These correlations suggest the injection of high energy electrons in the interplanetary magnetic field by small reconnection events, which are later observed by PSP as type III radio emissions. Future research is needed to investigate the anticorrelation periods found using these methods.