Dr. Paolo Claudio Grigis

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, working in the Solar and Stellar Soft X-ray Group (SSXG) of the High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD.)

I am a solar physicist with experience in data analysis, theoretical modeling and mission operation. Research interest include particle acceleration, solar flares, microflares and nanoflares, scaling laws, coronal dynamics and heating. I have been involved with RHESSI and Hinode.

My email adress is pgrigis@cfa.harvard.edu


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List of Publications

  • Spectral hardening in large solar flares
    Paolo C. Grigis and Arnold O. Benz
    Astrophysical Journal, 683, 1180:1191 (2008)
    Link to ADS.

  • Observations and Models of the Dynamical Evolution of Solar Flares
    Paolo C. Grigis
    Ph.D. Thesis
    Can be downloaded here

  • Electron Acceleration in Solar Flares: Theory of Spectral Evolution
    Paolo C. Grigis and Arnold O. Benz
    Astronomy & Astrophysics, 458, 641:651 (2006)
    Link to ADS.

  • X-Ray Polarization of Solar Flares Measured with Rhessi
    Suarez-Garcia, E.; Hajdas, W.; Wigger, C.; Arzner, K.; Güdel, M.; Zehnder, A.; Grigis, P.
    Solar Physics, 239, 149:172 (2006)
    Link to ADS.

  • Particle acceleration in solar flares: observations versus numerical simulations
    Arnold O. Benz, Paolo C. Grigis and Marina Battaglia
    Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 48, B115:B121 (2006)

  • Nobeyama Radio Heliograph Observations of RHESSI Microflares
    M.R. Kundu, E.J. Schmahl, P.C. Grigis, V.I. Garaimov and K. Shibasaki,
    Astronomy & Astrophysics, 451, 691:707 (2006)
    Link to ADS.

  • RHESSI observations of flare elements
    Paolo C. Grigis and Arnold O. Benz,
    Proceedings of the 11th European Solar Physics Meeting ESA SP-600, December 2005

  • The evolution of reconnection along an arcade of magnetic loops
    Paolo C. Grigis and Arnold O. Benz,
    Astrophysical Journal, 625, L143:L146 (2005)
    Link to ADS.

  • The spectral evolution of impulsive solar X-ray flares. II. Comparison of observations with models
    Paolo C. Grigis and Arnold O. Benz,
    Astronomy & Astrophysics, 434, 1173:1181 (2005)
    Link to ADS.

  • The spectral evolution of impulsive solar X-ray flares
    Paolo C. Grigis and Arnold O. Benz,
    Astronomy & Astrophysics, 426, 1093:1101 (2004)
    Link to ADS.

  • A broadband FFT spectrometer for radio and millimeter astronomy
    A.O. Benz, P.C. Grigis, V. Hungerbühler, H. Meyer, C. Monstein, B. Stuber, and D. Zardet,
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, 442, 767:773 (2005)
    Link to ADS.

  • Size dependence of solar X-ray flare properties
    Marina Battaglia, Paolo C. Grigis and Arnold O. Benz,
    Astronomy & Astrophysics, 439, 737:747 (2005)
    Link to ADS.

  • Survey on solar X-ray flares and associated coherent radio emissions
    Arnold O. Benz, Paolo C. Grigis, Andre Csillaghy and Pascal Saint-Hilaire,
    Solar Physics, 226, 121:142 (2005)
    Link to ADS.

  • RHESSI and radio imaging observations of microflares
    M.R. Kundu, G. Trottet, V.I. Garaimov, P. C. Grigis, E.J. Schmahl,
    Advances in Space Research, 35, 1778:1784 (2005)
    Link to ADS.

  • Microevents in the active and quiet solar corona
    Arnold O. Benz and Paolo C. Grigis,
    Advances in Space Research 32, 1035:1042 (2003)
    Link to ADS.

  • Microflares and hot component in solar active regions
    Arnold O. Benz and Paolo C. Grigis,
    Solar Physics 210, 431-444 (2002)
    Link to ADS.

    • Last modified: Fri Dec 19 11:51:23 EST 2008