SH023
Revealing the structure of the corona and the young solar wind: new imaging capabilities
Revealing the structure of the corona and the young solar wind: new imaging capabilities
Session ID#: 249059
Session Description:
Several new coronagraphs and heliospheric imagers are entering service, spurring major advances for many coronal and interplanetary physics questions: How do CMEs form and propagate? What is the bottom-to-top structure of the corona, including streamers/pseudostreamers and the S-web, and how does it drive reconnection, heating, and the solar wind? What is the role and origin of ubiquitous mesoscale structures? Recently launched visible-light imagers include (by date): CCOR-1, monitoring the middle corona to study and forecast space weather; CODEX, probing novel spectral signatures of outflow and heating; ASPIICS, studying the lower corona to uncover the origins of coronal structure; and PUNCH, surveying the outer corona and inner heliosphere to understand both ambient solar wind and interplanetary evolution of space weather. This session solicits observational and numerical-modeling contributions relevant to the plethora of new and anticipated data, exploring synergies between the new instrumentation and existing assets within the growing global Heliosystems Laboratory.
Co-Sponsor(s):
- P - Planetary Sciences
- SA - SPA-Aeronomy
- SM - SPA-Magnetospheric Physics
Index Terms:
2169 Solar wind sources [INTERPLANETARY PHYSICS]
7509 Corona [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7513 Coronal mass ejections [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7974 Solar effects [SPACE WEATHER]
Primary Convener: Dr. Dimitrios Vassiliadis, NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, Space Weather Observations (SWO) Office, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Conveners: Craig E. DeForest, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States and Sarah E Gibson, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States
Student/Early Career Convener: Nathan D Miles, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States
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