Shaktivel Shankar Pillai
MSc Physics (Mumbai India)
Postgraduate
Contact Details
- Email: shp40@aber.ac.uk
- Office:3.17 Physical Sciences Building
- Personal Website: https://github.com/shaktivel-pillai
- Research Portal Profile (https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/persons/9960160d-45a6-4b09-8f26-f9db59881b40)
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"PhD Researcher in Solar Physics | MHD & Plasma Dynamics Enthusiast | Bridging Machine Learning with Heliophysics | Science Communicator & Educator"
My project is aimed at understanding how the solar atmosphere is heated to >1MK temperatures through the study
of one largely unmapped type of event termed small-scale brightenings, predominantly seen throughout the
chromospheric and the coronal layers, and observed in extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) and X-ray emissions. We will
develop novel methods, including machine learning, to detect and characterise the faintest and smallest brightenings
in image time-series data.
Five-minute Periodicities in the Population of Solar Coronal Brightenings. / Morgan, Huw; Taroyan, Yeghiazar; Gandhi, Harshita et al.
In: The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 999, No. 2, 10.03.2026.
In: The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 999, No. 2, 10.03.2026.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review