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The Closest View of a Fast Coronal Mass Ejection: How Faulty Assumptions near Perihelion Lead to Unrealistic Interpretations of PSP/WISPR Observations
Ritesh Patel, Matthew J. West, Daniel B. Seaton +3
We report on the closest view of a coronal mass ejection observed by the Parker Solar Probe (PSP)/Wide-field Imager for {Parker} Solar PRobe (WISPR) instrument on September 05, 202…
Next-Generation Comprehensive Data-Driven Models of Solar Eruptive Events
Joel C. Allred, Graham S. Kerr, Meriem Alaoui +11
Solar flares and coronal mass ejections are interrelated phenomena that together are known as solar eruptive events. These are the main drivers of space weather and understanding t…
Fundamentals of impulsive energy release in the corona
Albert Y. Shih, Lindsay Glesener, Säm Krucker +30
It is essential that there be coordinated and co-optimized observations in X-rays, gamma-rays, and EUV during the peak of solar cycle 26 (~2036) to significantly advance our unders…
Sustaining high-solar-activity research
Albert Y. Shih, Amir Caspi, Jessie Duncan +3
Research efforts that require observations of high solar activity, such as multiwavelength studies of large solar flares and CMEs, must contend with the 11-year solar cycle to a de…
The need for focused, hard X-ray investigations of the Sun
Lindsay Glesener, Albert Y. Shih, Amir Caspi +46
Understanding the nature of energetic particles in the solar atmosphere is one of the most important outstanding problems in heliophysics. Flare-accelerated particles compose a hug…
Particle acceleration in solar flares with imaging-spectroscopy in soft X-rays
Mitsuo Oka, Amir Caspi, Bin Chen +15
Particles are accelerated to very high, non-thermal energies during explosive energy-release phenomena in space, solar, and astrophysical plasma environments. In the case of solar…
Magnetic Energy Powers the Corona: How We Can Understand its 3D Storage & Release
Amir Caspi, Daniel B. Seaton, Roberto Casini +12
The coronal magnetic field is the prime driver behind many as-yet unsolved mysteries: solar eruptions, coronal heating, and the solar wind, to name a few. It is, however, still poo…
Improving Multi-Dimensional Data Formats, Access, and Assimilation Tools for the Twenty-First Century
Daniel B. Seaton, Amir Caspi, Roberto Casini +12
Heliophysics image data largely relies on a forty-year-old ecosystem built on the venerable Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) data standard. While many in situ measurements us…
COMPLETE: A flagship mission for complete understanding of 3D coronal magnetic energy release
Amir Caspi, Daniel B. Seaton, Roberto Casini +12
COMPLETE is a flagship mission concept combining broadband spectroscopic imaging and comprehensive magnetography from multiple viewpoints around the Sun to enable tomographic recon…
Quantifying Energy Release in Solar Flares and Solar Eruptive Events: New Frontiers with a Next-Generation Solar Radio Facility
Bin Chen, Dale E. Gary, Sijie Yu +16
Solar flares and the often associated solar eruptive events serve as an outstanding laboratory to study the magnetic reconnection and the associated energy release and conversion p…
Numerical Study on Excitation of Turbulence and Oscillation in Above-the-loop-top Region of a Solar Flare
Kengo Shibata, Shinsuke Takasao, Katharine K. Reeves
Extreme ultraviolet imaging spectroscopic observations often show an increase in line width around the loop-top or above-loop-top (ALT) region of solar flares, suggestive of turbul…
The First Flight of the Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer (MaGIXS)
Sabrina L. Savage, Amy R. Winebarger, Ken Kobayashi +34
The Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer (MaGIXS) sounding rocket experiment launched on July 30, 2021 from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. MaGIXS is a unique…
Non-thermal Broadening of IRIS Fe XXI Lines Caused by Turbulent Plasma Flows in the Magnetic Reconnection Region During Solar Eruptions
Chengcai Shen, Vanessa Polito, Katharine K. Reeves +3
Magnetic reconnection is the key mechanism for energy release in solar eruptions, where the high-temperature emission is the primary diagnostic for investigating the plasma propert…
Advancing Theory and Modeling Efforts in Heliophysics
Fan Guo, Spiro Antiochos, Paul Cassak +15
Heliophysics theory and modeling build understanding from fundamental principles to motivate, interpret, and predict observations. Together with observational analysis, they consti…
Defining the Middle Corona
Matthew J. West, Daniel B. Seaton, David B. Wexler +31
The middle corona, the region roughly spanning heliocentric altitudes from to , encompasses almost all of the influential physical transitions and processes that…
Direct First PSP Observation of the Interaction of Two Successive Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections in November 2020
Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla, Nathalia Alzate, Hebe Cremades +18
We investigate the effects of the evolutionary processes in the internal magnetic structure of two interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) detected in situ between 2020 Novem…
The Origin of Underdense Plasma Downflows Associated with Magnetic Reconnection in Solar Flares
Chengcai Shen, Bin Chen, Katharine K. Reeves +3
Magnetic reconnection is a universal process that powers explosive energy release events such as solar flares, geomagnetic substorms, and some astrophysical jets. A characteristic…
Constraining the CME Core Heating and Energy Budget with SOHO/UVCS
Maurice L. Wilson, John C. Raymond, Susan T. Lepri +4
We describe the energy budget of a coronal mass ejection (CME) observed on 1999 May 17 with the Ultraviolet Coronagraph Spectrometer (UVCS). We constrain the physical properties of…
Thermodynamic Evolution of Solar Flare Supra-arcade Downflows
Z. F. Li, X. Cheng, M. D. Ding +4
Solar flares are rapid energy release phenomena that appear as bright ribbons in the chromosphere and high-temperature loops in the corona, respectively. Supra-arcade Downflows (SA…
Probing the Physics of the Solar Atmosphere with the Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE): II. Flares and Eruptions
Mark C. M. Cheung, Juan Martínez-Sykora, Paola Testa +25
Current state-of-the-art spectrographs cannot resolve the fundamental spatial (sub-arcseconds) and temporal scales (less than a few tens of seconds) of the coronal dynamics of sola…
A new view of the solar interface region from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)
B. De Pontieu, V. Polito, V. Hansteen +11
The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) has been obtaining near- and far-ultraviolet images and spectra of the solar atmosphere since July 2013. The unique combination of…
Plasma Heating Induced by Tadpole-Like Downflows in the Flaring Solar Corona
Tanmoy Samanta, Hui Tian, Bin Chen +4
As one of the most spectacular energy release events in the solar system, solar flares are generally powered by magnetic reconnection in the solar corona. As a result of the re-arr…
Energetic Electron Distribution of the Coronal Acceleration Region: First results from Joint Microwave and Hard X-ray Imaging Spectroscopy
Bin Chen, Marina Battaglia, Säm Krucker +2
Nonthermal sources located above bright flare arcades, referred to as the "above-the-loop-top" sources, have been often suggested as the primary electron acceleration site in major…
Hot Plasma Flows and Oscillations in the Loop-top Region During the September 10 2017 X8.2 Solar Flare
Katharine K. Reeves, Vanessa Polito, Bin Chen +4
In this study, we investigate motions in the hot plasma above the flare loops during the 2017 September 10 X8.2 flare event. We examine the region to the south of the main flare ar…