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Session Proposal: Fundamental Physics of the Solar Corona and Inner Heliosphere (AGU25)

SH011
Fundamental Physics of the Solar Corona and Inner Heliosphere

Session ID#: 247808

Session Description:
The physical processes occurring in the solar corona and inner heliosphere play a critical role in shaping the space environment surrounding the Earth. We are currently in an unprecedented epoch for heliophysic research, driven by groundbreaking space missions like Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter, along with rapid advancements in computational capabilities. This session invites contributions that advance our understanding of the key physical processes in the solar corona and inner heliosphere. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: What mechanisms heat the solar corona and accelerate the solar wind? How and where are different types of solar wind streams generated, and what physical processes determine their properties? What are the origins of magnetic switchbacks, and how do they contribute to solar wind acceleration? We welcome all types of studies—observational, theoretical, and numerical—that contribute to these and related questions.
Index Terms:

7509 Corona [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7599 General or miscellaneous [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7827 Kinetic and MHD theory [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
7899 General or miscellaneous [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
Primary Convener:  Chen Shi, Auburn University, Department of Physics, Auburn, United States
Conveners:  Chadi S Salem, University of California, Berkeley, United States, Olga Panasenco, Advanced Heliophysics Inc., Pasadena, United States and Marco C M Velli, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
 
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Lulu Zhao1, Igor Sokolov2, Tamas I Gombosi2, Nishtha Sachdeva2, Ward Manchester2, Alexander David Shane2 and Weihao Liu1, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States
 
Parker Solar Probe Observations of the Scaling of Plasma Heating by Magnetic Reconnection in the near-Sun Heliospheric Current Sheet (Invited) (1848428)
Tai Phan, University of California, Berkeley, United States, Marit Oieroset, Univ California, Berkeley, United States, Naïs naiS.fargette@iraP.omP.eu, IRAP, Toulouse, France, James Frederick Drake, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Jonathan P Eastwood, Imperial College London, Physics, London, United Kingdom, Michael A. Shay, University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, United States, Stuart D Bale, University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Davin E Larson, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States and Orlando Romeo, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, United States
 
Radial evolution of Alfvén wave parametric decay instability in the near-sun solar wind: Role of temperature anisotropy (1886710)
Hayato Saguchi1, Yohei Kawazura2, Munehito Shoda3 and Yuto Katoh1, (1)Tohoku University, Department of Geophysics, Graduate School of Science, Sendai, Japan, (2)Tohoku University, Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Sendai, Japan, (3)The University of Tokyo, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
 
Measuring plasma velocities in Coronal loops using Hinode/EIS spectroscopic data to constrain eruption models (1897608)
Yousef Malik, Langley Highschool, Fairfax, United States, Canyon Natinsky, Frisco Highschool, Frisco, United States, Kavin Kumar, Henry M. Gunn Highschool, Palo Alto, United States and Arthur I Poland, George Mason University, Marhall, VA, UNITED STATES
 
Laboratory Characterization of a Novel Hall-Driven Alfvén Wave Interaction as an Energy Transfer Mechanism in Imbalanced Turbulence (1898966)
Mel Abler, Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States, Seth E Dorfman, Space Science Institute, Boulder, United States, Christopher H K Chen, Queen Mary University of London, Department of Physics and Astronomy, London, United Kingdom and Stephen T Vincena, LAPD Plasma Lab, Room 15-70, Los Angeles, United States
 
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Gregory Mark Szypko and Stephen J. Bradshaw, Rice University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Houston, United States
 
Ion-scale turbulence and energy cascade rate evolution from the Sun to 1 au (1911796)
Eduard Kontar, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12, United Kingdom, Gordon Emslie, Western Kentucky University, Physics & Astronomy, Bowling Green, United States, Daniel Clarkson, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom and Alexander Pitna, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
 
Evolution of an Alfvén Wave–Driven Proton Beam in the Expanding Solar Wind (1915939)
Jarrod Bianco1, Anna Tenerani2 and Carlos A Gonzalez2, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (2)The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Physics, Austin, United States
 
Generalized Two Thermal Regime Approach: Bipoly Fluid Modeling (1916397)
Jean-Baptiste Dakeyo1, Pascal Demoulin2, Alexis P Rouillard3, Milan Maksimovic2, Alice Chapiron4 and Stuart D Bale5, (1)SSL, UC-Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (2)LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris, Meudon, France, (3)Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, Observatoire Midi–Pyrénées, CNRS, CNES, IRAP, Toulouse, France, (4)IRAP, Toulouse, France, (5)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Global Wave-Driven Wind Model: The Role of waves and turbulence in Solar Wind Heating and Acceleration (1918437)
Carlos Gonzalez, University of Texas at Austin, Department of physics, Austin, TX, United States and Anna Tenerani, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Physics, Austin, United States
 
Anisotropies and Heavy Ions as Diagnostics of Solar Wind Thermodynamic Evolution (1920669)
Aidan Nakhleh1, Nicholeen M Viall2, Susan T Lepri3 and Jim M Raines3, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (3)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
 
Evolution of Alpha and Proton Temperature Anisotropies in The Inner-Heliosphere (1923442)
Vamsee Krishna Jagarlamudi1, Parisa Mostafavi1, Juan Carlos Carlos Palacios2, Sofiane Bourouaine3, Nour Raouafi4, Rungployphan Om Kieokaew5, Tereza Durovcova6, Andrei Fedorov7 and Philippe Louarn7, (1)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States, (2)Florida Institute of Technology, Aerospace, Physics and Space Sciences, Melbourne, United States, (3)Florida Institute of Technology, Aerospace, Physics and Space Sciences, Melbourne, FL, United States, (4)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (5)IRAP, Toulouse, France, (6)Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, (7)CNRS - Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Toulouse, France
 
Unraveling the Connection Between Flares and Triggering of Sloshing Oscillations (1931884)
Arpit Kumar Shrivastav, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Krishna Prasad Sayamanthula, Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational-Sciences, Nainital, India
 
Differences in heavy ion streaming in the inner heliosphere observed by Solar Orbiter (1934453)
Ryan M. Dewey1, Susan T Lepri2, Jim M Raines2, Jesse Coburn3, Yeimy Rivera4, Stefano A Livi5, Evan Shimoun6, Antoinette Broe Galvin7, Lynn M Kistler8 and Benjamin L. Alterman9, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States, (3)Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Dorking, United Kingdom, (4)Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, United States, (5)SwRI, San Antonio, United States, (6)University of Michigan, Climate and Space Science and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (7)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (8)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (9)Southwest Research Institute, Space Science and Engineering, San Antonio, United States
 
How does the heating frequency on elemental strands change as a function of active region age? (1937361)
Will Barnes, American University, Washington, United States, Stephen J. Bradshaw, Rice University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Houston, United States, Emily Irene Mason, Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, CA, United States and Nicholeen M Viall, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States
 
Interchange Reconnection and ion kinetic instabilities in coronal plasma. (1938058)
Vladimir Krasnoselskikh, Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace, Orléans Cedex 2, France; Space Science Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, Arnaud Zaslavsky, CNRS, Observatoire de Paris, LESIA, Meudon, France, Pierre-Louis Sulem, Laboratoire Lagrange, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, France, Immanuel Christopher Jebaraj, Observatoire Royal de Belgique, Brussel, Belgium, Thierry Dudok de Wit, LPC2E, CNRS and University of Orléans, Orléans, France, Jaye Verniero, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, Oleksiy V Agapitov, Space Science Laboratory, UCB, Berkeley, United States and Michael A Balikhin, Univ Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
 
Characterizing Pristine Solar Wind Thermodynamics Near the Sun Using Parker Solar Probe Observations from Encounters 22 to 24 (1939634)
Mingzhe Liu1, Jia Huang2, Davin E Larson3, Stuart D Bale4, Jack Collard2, Tamar Ervin5,6, Roberto Livi2, Ali Rahmati2, Samer Alnussirat2, Orlando Romeo4, Phyllis Whittlesey2, Marc Pulupa4, Carlos A Gonzalez7 and Zesen Huang8, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (3)Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, United States, (6)University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (7)The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Physics, Austin, United States, (8)Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, University of California Los Angels, Los Angels, United States
 
Evolution and Acceleration of Solar Wind during Fast Radial Scans of Parker Solar Probe (1942308)
Yuliang Ding, University of California Los Angeles, EPSS, Los Angeles, United States, Marco C M Velli, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, United States, Zesen Huang, Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, University of California Los Angels, Los Angels, United States and Chen Shi, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States
 
Asymmetric Tangential Velocity inside Switchbacks: Implication for Switchback Origin (1943301)
Riddhi Bandyopadhyay, Princeton University, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, Juston Ward, Sam Houston State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Huntsville, United States, David J McComas, Princeton University, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton, United States, Schwadron A Nathan, University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, Samuel Timothy Badman, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Kristoff W Paulson, University of New Hampshire, Chelmsford, United States and Michael Louis Stevens, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
PSP Observations of a Plasmoid Associated With Active Reconnection in the Near-Sun Heliospheric Current Sheet (1943661)
Harry C Lewis, Imperial College London, Department of Physics, London, SW7, United Kingdom, Jonathan P Eastwood, Imperial College London, Physics, London, United Kingdom, Stuart Bale, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Tai Phan, University of California, Berkeley, United States; University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, Naïs naiS.fargette@iraP.omP.eu, IRAP, Toulouse, France, Samuel Timothy Badman, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States, Jasper S Halekas, University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, United States, Michael Louis Stevens, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, United States and Mark Linton, US Naval Research Laboratory, Space Science Division, Washington, DC, United States
 
Evolution of solar wind charge states from the solar corona to 1 AU with nonthermal electrons (1948575)
Jin-Yi Lee, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Korea, Republic of (South), Junmo An, Korea Astronomy & Space Science Institute, Daejeon, South Korea, John C Raymond, Smithsonian Astrophys Observ, Cambridge, MA, United States and Chengcai Shen, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, United States
 
Residual Energy and Broken Symmetry in Reduced Magnetohydrodynamics (1960114)
Seth E Dorfman1, Mel Abler1, Stanislav Boldyrev2, Christopher H K Chen3 and Samuel Greess3, (1)Space Science Institute, Boulder, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (3)Queen Mary University of London, Department of Physics and Astronomy, London, United Kingdom
 
Time-Steady Modeling of the Solar Wind and Coronal Polarized Emissivity with FLUX (1968308)
Chris R Gilly, PhD, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Chris Lowder, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States
 
Dynamics of the Time-Dependent Solar Corona and Inner Heliosphere (1981472)
Jon Linker1, Cooper Downs2, Roberto Lionello1, Ronald M. Caplan1, Emily Irene Mason2, Pete Riley1 and Dr. Erika Palmerio2, (1)Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, United States, (2)Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, CA, United States
 
A New Approach for Extrapolating Photospheric Vector Magnetic Data to the Chromospheric Level (1983204)
Viacheslav S. Titov1, Cooper Downs1, Dr. Tibor Torok2 and Jon Linker2, (1)Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, CA, United States, (2)Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, United States
 
Influence of Reconnection Physics on Nanoflare Statistics in Parker’s Coronal Heating Model (1993629)
Yi-Min Huang, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
 
HelioSwitch: A High‑Purity Parker Solar Probe Switchback Catalog (1995865)
Vratislav Krupar1, Samuel Timothy Badman2, Stuart D Bale3, Srijan Bharati Das4,5, Tereza Durovcova6, Oksana Kruparova1, Andrea Larosa7, Mihailo Martinovic8, Ronald Lee Moore9,10, Ayris Narock11, Zdenek Nemecek12, Jacob Pasanen13, Jana Safrankova6, Alphonse C Sterling14, Adam Szabo15 and Kenneth H Wright Jr16, (1)NASA/GSFC & UMBC/GPHI, Greenbelt, United States, (2)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, (3)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Princeton University, Princeton, United States, (5)Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, United States, (6)Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Prague, Czech Republic, (7)Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace, Orléans Cedex 2, France, (8)University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, AZ, United States, (9)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, United States, (10)University of Alabama in Huntsville, CSPAR, Huntsville, United States, (11)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, United States, (12)Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Prague, 180, Czech Republic, (13)ADNET Systems Inc. Greenbelt, Greenbelt, United States, (14)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (15)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (16)Universities Space Research Association, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
Statistical Study of Long-Lived Active Regions (1998262)
Emily Irene Mason, Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, CA, United States and Kara Kniezewski, Air Force Institute of Technology, Bellbrook, OH, United States
 
Elemental Abundances at Coronal Hole Boundaries as a Means to Investigate Interchange Reconnection and the Solar Wind (2001732)
Alexandros Koukras, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Daniel Wolf Savin, Columbia University, New York, NY, New York, United States and Michael Hahn, Columbia University, New York, United States
 
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Nikos Sioulas1, Trevor Bowen2, Alfred Mallet3, Benjamin D G Chandran4, Stuart D Bale2 and Jinsong Zhao5, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (5)Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences,, Nanjing, China