Earth embosomed by the Sun: heliophysics and space weather (Scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 5 June 2019)

On 5 June 2019, the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) held a scientific session, entitled “Earth embosomed by the Sun: heliophysics and space weather” in the Conference Hall of the Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS.

The meeting proceedings include the following presentations:

(1) Bogachev S A (Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow; Samara National Research University, Samara) “Microflares and nanoflares in the solar corona”;

(2) Petrukovich A A (Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow), Malova H V, Popov V Yu, Maiewski E V, Izmodenov V V, Katushkina O A, Vinogradov A A, Riazantseva M O, Rakhmanova L S, Podladchikova T V, Zastenker G N,Yermolaev Yu I, Lodkina I G, Chesalin L S “Modern view of the solar wind from micro to macro scales”;

(3) Kuznetsov V D, Osin A I (Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation (IZMIRAN), Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Moscow) “Heliophysics: from observations to models and applications”;

(4) Panasyuk M I (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow) “Radiation fields in outer space and planning for space missions”;

(5) Frederiks D D (Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg), Lysenko A L, Svinkin D S, Ulanov M V, Tsvetkova A E, Aptekar R L “X-ray and gamma-ray emission from solar flares”.

The paper versions of talks 1–3 and 5 are presented further on in this issue.