IAU commission 10 "Solar Activity": Legacy report and triennial report for 2012-2015
Carolus J. Schrijver, Lyndsay Fletcher, Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi,, Ayumi Asai, Paul S. Cally, Paul Charbonneau, Sarah E. Gibson, Daniel Gomez,, Siraj S. Hasan, Astrid M. Veronig, and Yihua Yan

TL;DR
This report reviews the history, growth, and current challenges of solar activity research, highlighting recent scientific topics and developments in the field over the 2012-2015 period.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive overview of solar activity research, community growth, and technological advancements, marking the transition from IAU Commission 10 to C.E2.
Findings
Over 2,000 publications annually on solar activity.
Growing community with over 4,000 authors.
Key research topics include active-region magnetic fields and solar eruptions.
Abstract
After more than half a century of community support related to the science of "solar activity'', IAU's Commission 10 was formally discontinued in 2015, to be succeeded by C.E2 with the same area of responsibility. On this occasion, we look back at the growth of the scientific disciplines involved around the world over almost a full century. Solar activity and fields of research looking into the related physics of the heliosphere continue to be vibrant and growing, with currently over 2,000 refereed publications appearing per year from over 4,000 unique authors, publishing in dozens of distinct journals and meeting in dozens of workshops and conferences each year. The size of the rapidly growing community and of the observational and computational data volumes, along with the multitude of connections into other branches of astrophysics, pose significant challenges; aspects of these…
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Taxonomy
TopicsSolar and Space Plasma Dynamics · Astro and Planetary Science · History and Developments in Astronomy
