3D visualisation by Erwin Verwichte . Click here to see full movie . Welcome to Duncan Mackay's home page. The St. Andrews Solar Theory Group is part of the Mathematics Department of the University of St. Andrews . My main research area is Solar Physics and in particular, objects called Solar Prominences which I studied while writing my PhD thesis in St. Andrews.
Prominences are large cloud like structures that lie in the outer atmosphere of the sun.
Click here to find out more about Prominences. Another area of interest to me is Magnetic Flux Transport , i.e. the large scale movement of magnetic fields on the surface of the sun. Click on the link above to see some simulations of flux transport in action. My other research areas include Coronal Heating, Polar Crown Arcades and extrapolation of Magnetic Fields from Magnetogram Data. Links to these topics will be added shortly.