SH029
Thinking outside the Sun-Earth Line:  Science and operational applications of alternative solar vantage points

Session ID#: 83775

Session Description:
Vantage points outside the Sun-Earth line represent a “last frontier” of solar exploration and have high operational value for understanding and forecasting space weather.  This kind of missions (i.e. polar exploration missions, L5 missions) provide a unique view of transient structures heading to Earth such as coronal mass ejections and co-rotating interaction regions that drive larger space weather events.  Additionally, polar exploration missions enable a detailed and completely new look into regions that are the key to understanding the solar dynamo and activity cycle, as well as the origin of high-speed wind streams associated with geomagnetic storms.

 

The goal of this session is to review the science and operational applications of missions that take advantage of vantage points outside the Sun-Earth line (polar, L5, etc.), and to bring together space physicists, spacecraft engineers, orbital dynamics specialists, and operational space weather scientists to discuss their requirements, instrumentation, and space mission concepts.

Index Terms:

7536 Solar activity cycle [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7594 Instruments and techniques [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7924 Forecasting [SPACE WEATHER]
7974 Solar effects [SPACE WEATHER]

Primary Convener:  Andres Munoz-Jaramillo, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Nicholeen M Viall, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Scott William McIntosh, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Andres Munoz-Jaramillo, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
The Compact Heliospheric Imager (CHI): An R2O Instrument Concept for an L5 Space Weather Mission (507720)
Damien H Chua1, Arnaud Thernisien2, Clarence Korendyke3, Dennis G Socker1 and Mario Noya4, (1)US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (3)Naval Research Laboratory, Alexandria, VA, United States, (4)US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, United States
 
Neighboring Planet Outposts: Location and Opportunity (529252)
Janet G Luhmann, University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Christina O Lee, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Robert J Lillis, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Yan Li, Univ California, Berkeley, CA, United States, Lan Jian, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Shaosui Xu, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Jasper S Halekas, University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, Jared R Espley, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Davin E Larson, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Bruce Martin Jakosky, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, UNITED STATES, Matts Holmstrom, IRF, Kiruna, Sweden, Christopher T Russell, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth Planetary and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Tielong Zhang, Space Research Institute, Graz, Austria, Yoshifumi Futaana, IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Kiruna, Kiruna, Sweden, Gina A DiBraccio, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Dusan Odstrcil, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States and M. Leila Mays, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Latitudinal variations of the interplanetary Lyman alpha background from SWAN and SOLSTICE (547312)
Willow Mae Reed, Montana State University, Physics, Bozeman, MT, United States, Martin A Snow, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Eric Quemerais, LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France
 
Helioseismology from An Off-Sun-Earth Vantage Point (551703)
Junwei Zhao1, Ruizhu Chen2 and Shea A. Hess Webber2, (1)Stanford University, W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, HEPL, Stanford, CA, United States
 
Science Applications of Solar Wind Observations off the Sun-Earth Line (STEREO) (553609)
Antoinette Broe Galvin, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, Lan Jian, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Kristin Simunac, St. Petersburg College Tarpon Springs, Tarpon Springs, FL, United States
 
The Solar Polar Observing Constellation (SPOC) Mission: research and operational monitoring of space weather from polar heliocentric orbits (595099)
Thomas E Berger1, Natasha Bosanac2, Thomas Raymond Smith3, Nicole A Duncan4, Gordon Wu5, Eric Turner5, Neal Hurlburt6 and Clarence Korendyke7, (1)University of Colorado, Space Weather Technology, Research, and Education Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research, Boulder, United States, (4)Ball Aerospace Corporation, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Ball Aerospace Corporation, Boulder, United States, (6)Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto, United States, (7)Naval Research Laboratory, Alexandria, VA, United States
 
Solaris: A Case for a Solar Polar Mission (Invited) (624423)
Don Hassler, Southwest Research Inst, Boulder, CO, United States, Jeffrey S Newmark, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States and Sarah E Gibson, NCAR, HAO, Boulder, CO, United States
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