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Session Proposal: Revealing the structure of the corona and the young solar wind: new imaging capabilities (AGU25)

SH023
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
 
Leveraging an Alignment of PUNCH, CODEX and Metis to Reveal the Outflow and Acceleration of the Solar Wind (Invited) (1856284)
Nicholeen M Viall1, Jeffrey S Newmark2, Craig E. DeForest3, Silvano Fineschi4, Sarah E Gibson5, M Romoli6, Marta Casti7, Alessandro Liberatore8, Raphael Attie9, James Marcus Hughes3, Robin C Colaninno10, Glenn Thomas Laurent3, Nelson Leslie Reginald11, Su-Chan Bong12, Yeon-Han Kim13, Gerado Capobianco14, Herve Haudemand14, Donguk Song12, Sung-Hong Park12, Kyungsuk Cho15, Seonghwan Choi12, Qian Gong16, Jongyeob Park12, Jihun Kim12, Heesu Yang12, Federico Landini17, Davide Loreggia17, Luca Zangrilli14 and Lucia Abbo14, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Headquarters, Washington, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)INAF - Astrophysical Observatory of Turin, Torino, Italy, (5)National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)University of Florence, Florence, Italy, (7)The Catholic University of America at NASA/GSFC, Washington, United States, (8)Inaf, Pino Torinese, Italy, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, George Mason University, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (11)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (12)KASI Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Daejeon, South Korea, (13)Korea Ast. & Sp. Sci. Ins., Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South), (14)INAF - Astrophysical Observatory of Turin, Pino Torinese, Italy, (15)KMA Korea Meteorlogical Administration, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (16)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (17)Astrophysical Observatory of Turin, Pino Torinese, Italy
 
Forward Modeling Techniques Applied to the New Generation Coronagraphs (Invited) (1858255)
Arnaud F Thernisien1, Robin C Colaninno2, Phillip Hess3, Eleni Nikou4, Laura Balmaceda5, Natsuha Kuroda5 and Damien H Chua1, (1)US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (3)George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, United States, (4)NRC Research Associate, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (5)George Mason University, Fairfax, United States
 
PUNCH Science (1873222)
Craig DeForest1, Sarah E Gibson2, Barbara J Thompson3, Nicholeen M Viall3, Raphael Attie4, Steven R Cranmer5, Rohit Chhiber6, Anna V Malanushenko7, David F Webb8, Curt de Koning9, Heather Alison Elliott10, Mihir Indrajit Desai11 and The PUNCH Science Team, (1)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, United States, (7)High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, United States, (8)Boston College, ISR, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States, (9)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, UNITED STATES, (10)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (11)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States
 
Reconstruction of Mesoscale Solar Wind Structures in Shear-Driven Turbulence (1876993)
Yan Yang1, Francesco Pecora2, Rohit Chhiber3, Sarah E Gibson4, Nicholeen M Viall5, Craig DeForest6 and Prof. William H Matthaeus3, (1)University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States, (2)University of Delaware, Newark, United States, (3)University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (6)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States
 
The ASPIICS Coronagraph Aboard the PROBA-3 Mission: First Results (Invited) (1906553)
Andrei Zhukov, SIDC, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
 
What Space Weather Quantities Can Be Accurately Forecasted Using Coronal and Heliospheric Imaging? (1908292)
Heather Alison Elliott1, Craig DeForest2, Maher Dayeh3, Raphael Attie4, Michael joseph Starkey5 and Mihir Desai3, (1)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Southwest Research Institute, Physics and Astronomy, San Antonio, United States
 
Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) Science Operations Center (SOC) Data Products and Software (1913472)
James Marcus Hughes1, Samuel Van Kooten2, Derek A Lamb3, Chris Lowder2, Dr. Ritesh Patel3, Daniel B Seaton3 and Craig DeForest2, (1)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States
 
The Coronal Diagnostic EXperiment (CODEX): Data Products (1922735)
Jeffrey S Newmark1, Marta Casti2, Nicholeen M Viall3, Yeon-Han Kim4, Silvano Fineschi5, Lucia Abbo6, Jihye Baek7, Su-Chan Bong7, Valeria Caracci8, Gerado Capobianco6, Kyungsuk Cho7, Seonghwan Choi7, Qian Gong9, Herve Haudemand6, Jihun Kim7, Federico Landini10, Davide Loreggia10, Jongyeob Park7, Sung-Hong Park7, Nelson Reginald11, Donguk Song7, Roberto Susino6, Heesu Yang7, Luca Zangrilli6 and CODEX, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)The Catholic University of America at NASA/GSFC, Washington, United States, (3)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (4)Korea Ast. & Sp. Sci. Ins., Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South), (5)INAF - Astrophysical Observatory of Turin, Torino, Italy, (6)INAF - Astrophysical Observatory of Turin, Pino Torinese, Italy, (7)KASI Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Daejeon, South Korea, (8)INAF-Osservatorio Astrofiscio di Torino, Torino, Italy, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (10)Astrophysical Observatory of Turin, Pino Torinese, Italy, (11)Catholic University, Greenbelt, United States
 
The Electron Temperature Inferred with Fe X, Fe XI and Fe XIV Emission Throughout the Middle Corona From the 2023 Australian Total Solar Eclipse (1922846)
Benjamin Boe, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, United States, Shadia R Habbal, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, United States, Cooper Downs, Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, CA, United States and Miloslav Druckmuller, Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno, Czech Republic
 
Visualizing the Solar Corona in 3D Using PUNCH (1926321)
Jack Vogel, University of North Georgia - Dahlonega, Woodstock, GA, UNITED STATES, Anna V Malanushenko, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, United States, Craig DeForest, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States, Elena Provornikova, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, United States, Dr. Ritesh Patel, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States and PUNCH SOC team
 
PUNCHing Through the Heliosphere with Polarized Light (1931333)
Dr. Ritesh Patel1, James Marcus Hughes2, Matthew John West3, Chris Lowder4, Daniel B Seaton2, Samuel Van Kooten4 and Craig DeForest4, (1)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, United States, (4)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States
 
Global MHD Modelling to Support the Next Generation of White-Light Imagers (1931417)
Dr. Erika Palmerio1, Cooper Downs1, Ronald M. Caplan2, Roberto Lionello2 and Jon Linker2, (1)Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, CA, United States, (2)Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, United States
 
CIRs in the Age of PUNCH (1949978)
Curt de Koning, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, UNITED STATES, Dusan Odstrcil, George Mason University, Fairfax, United States, Sarah E Gibson, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States and Craig DeForest, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States
 
SPICE kernels and Orbital Opportunities for Coordinated Science with CCOR-1 (1952324)
Laura Balmaceda1, Arnaud Thernisien2, Natsuha Kuroda1 and Nathan Rich3, (1)George Mason University, Fairfax, United States, (2)Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, United States, (3)Naval Research Laboratory, Alexandria, United States
 
Partitioning Photons in CCOR-1 Data: Coronal Mass Ejections and Everything Else (1958482)
Don Schmit1, Gabriel Dima2, Vicente Salinas2 and Christian Bethge2,3, (1)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, (3)CU/CIRES-NOAA/NCEI, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Understanding how Coronal Heating Affects Global Properties of the Low and Middle Corona (1959055)
Caroline Evans, University of Colorado at Boulder, Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, Boulder, United States; National Solar Observatory, Sunspot, United States, Cooper Downs, Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, CA, United States and Donald Schmit, CU/CIRES-NOAA/NCEI, Boulder, United States
 
Overview and Status of the Space Weather Coronagraph (SwSCOR) (1962687)
Nicholas Erickson1, Craig DeForest1, Matthew Beasley1, Steven Osterman1, Travis Smith1, Ronnie Killough2, Glenn Thomas Laurent3, Reith Nolan2, Kevin Sacca1, Todd Veach2, James Marcus Hughes3 and Robert Klar2, (1)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Tracking the Multiscale Solar Wind Evolution with PUNCH Flow Maps for Heliophysics Research and Space Weather Preparedness (1962875)
Raphael Attie1, Valmir Moraes Filho2, Nicholeen M Viall3, Barbara J Thompson3, Vadim Uritsky4, Craig DeForest5, James Marcus Hughes6, Chris Lowder5, Heather Alison Elliott7, Maher Dayeh8, Sarah E Gibson9, Chadi S Salem10, Angelos Vourlidas11 and Evangelia Samara12, (1)NASA GSFC / GMU, Greenbelt, United States, (2)Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, (3)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (4)NASA GSFC / CUA, Greenbelt, United States, (5)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States, (6)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (8)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (9)National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)SSL, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (11)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States, (12)Catholic University of America, Washington, United States
 
CATE 2024: Novel one-hour continuous observations of polarized structure and dynamics of the inner and middle corona during the 2024 total solar eclipse (1966281)
Daniel B Seaton1, Amir Caspi2, Sarah Kovac2, Paul Bryans3, Joan Burkepile4, Sarah Davis5, Craig DeForest6, David F. Elmore7, Sanjay Gusain8, Rebecca Haacker9, James Marcus Hughes2, Jason Jackiewicz10, Derek A Lamb2, Valentin Martinez-Pillet11, Dr. Ritesh Patel2, Kevin Reardon7, Willow Reed12, Anna Tosolini13, Andrei Ursache14, John K Williams15, Padma A Yanamandra-Fisher16, Daniel W Zietlow17 and Citizen Cate 2025 Team, (1)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Independent Researcher, Golden, CO, United States, (6)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States, (7)National Solar Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)National Solar Observatory, Sunspot, United States, (9)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Education, Engagement & Early Career Development, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States, (11)National Solar Observatory, Boulder, United States, (12)University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (13)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (14)Independent Researcher, Maynard, MA, United States, (15)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (16)Space Science Institute, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, United States, (17)Provare Media and NSF NCAR, Boulder, United States
 
Multi-spectral Images of the Infrared Corona taken from NASA’s WB-57 Aircraft during the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse: A First Look (1967008)
William Ashfield1, Amir Caspi2, Daniel Seaton2, Matthew West3, Carey Scott4, Matthew Boyda4, Paul Bryans5, Tony Casey6, Robert Conn4, Don Darrow7, Craig DeForest1, Edward DeLuca8, Cooper Downs9, Sarah Kovac2, Hyun Jung Kim10, Thomas "Duster" Parent11, Jenna Samra12 and Anna Tosolini13, (1)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)European Space Research and Technology Centre, Noordwijk Zh, Netherlands, (4)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, (5)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, United States, (7)Southern Research, Birmingham, AL, United States, (8)Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States, (9)Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, CA, United States, (10)KAIST Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea, (11)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (12)Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, MA, United States, (13)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
 
Time-Dependent 3-D Reconstructions Providing Brightness and Polarization Brightness Analyses From PUNCH Coordinated with Interplanetary Scintillation Data (1968508)
Bernard V Jackson1, Andrew Buffington1, Kazumasa Iwai2, Kenichi Fujiki2, Mario Mark Bisi3, Jackie A Davies3, Richard Fallows3, David Barnes3, Oyuki Chang3 and David F Webb4, (1)University of California San Diego, Astronomy and Astrophysics, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)Nagoya University, Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya, Japan, (3)United Kingdom Research and Innovation - Science & Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, RAL Space, Didcot, United Kingdom, (4)Boston College, ISR, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States
 
Background Subtraction in PUNCH Images (1972038)
Samuel Van Kooten1, James Marcus Hughes2, Chris Lowder3, Dr. Ritesh Patel2, Daniel B Seaton2, Craig DeForest3 and Matthew West3, (1)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States
 
Tracking a Halo CME across one Astronomical Unit with PUNCH (1983181)
Kieran Russell1, Craig DeForest2, Samuel Van Kooten2 and James Marcus Hughes3, (1)Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States
 
PUNCH flow data applied to SynCOM simulated images (1984494)
Valmir Moraes Filho1,2, Vadim Uritsky3, Barbara J Thompson2, Sarah E Gibson4, Nicholeen M Viall2 and Craig E. DeForest5, (1)Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, (2)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (3)NASA GSFC / CUA, Greenbelt, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Solar Coronal Science and Space Weather Observations at the NCAR/HAO Mauna Loa Solar Observatory (1985135)
Thomas E Berger1, Joan Burkepile2, Sarah E Gibson2, Giuliana de Toma3, Alfred de Wijn4, Michael D. Galloy4, Ben Berkey2 and Samaiyah Farid5, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NCAR, Boulder, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (5)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
 
The Sun's Corona has a Memory which allows for Predictions of Heliospheric Activity (1987542)
Shaonwita Pal, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Center of Excellence in Space Sciences India, Kolkata, India, Soumyaranjan Das, National Solar Observatory, Boulder, United States, Soumitra Hazra, Univ. Paris-Saclay & Univ. de Paris Cité, Paris, France and Dibyendu Nandy, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Center of Excellence in Space Sciences India and Department of Physical Sciences, Kolkata, India
 
Improvement of the CME Forecasting by PUNCH Heliospheric Imagery (1993513)
Dusan Odstrcil, George Mason University Fairfax, Physics and Astronomy, Fairfax, VA, United States, Curt de Koning, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, UNITED STATES, Jie Zhang, George Mason University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Fairfax, United States, Jackie A Davies, United Kingdom Research and Innovation - Science & Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, RAL Space, Didcot, United Kingdom, Siegfried Gonzi, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom, Victor Pizzo, Space Weather Prediction, Boulder, United States, Eric T Adamson, NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, United States, Anna Chulaki, NASA GSFC/CUA, Greenbelt, United States and M. Leila Mays, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Community Coordinated Modeling Center, Greenbelt, United States
 
Initial Results from the PUNCH Mission (1996336)
Craig E. DeForest1, Sarah E Gibson2, Ronnie Killough3, Matthew Beasley4, Robin C Colaninno5, Glenn Thomas Laurent6, Marcus Hughes7, Nicholeen M Viall8, Madhulika Guhathakurta9, Barbara J Thompson8, Raphael Attie10, Steven R Cranmer11, Rohit Chhiber12, David F Webb13, Anna V Malanushenko14, Curt de Koning15, Mihir Desai3, Heather Alison Elliott16 and The PUNCH Science Team, (1)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (4)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States, (5)Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (6)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Boulder, United States, (8)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (9)NASA Headquarters, Washington, United States, (10)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (11)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (12)University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, United States, (13)Boston College, ISR, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States, (14)High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, United States, (15)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, UNITED STATES, (16)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
 
Modeling and Measurement of the Coronal Electron Temperature (1999667)
Sarah Bruce, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States and Kevin Reardon, National Solar Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Inferring the Coronal Magnetic Field from UCoMP and DKIST/Cryo-NIRSP. (2003604)
Haosheng Lin, University of Hawaii, Manoa, United States, Maxim Kramar, National Solar Observatory, Tucson, AZ, United States and Steven Tomczyk, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, United States