Call for Papers

COSPAR 2006 Symposium E2.1/D2.5/E3.5

 

"Scientific and Technological Requirements for Future High-Resolution Solar Physics Space Missions"

 

Beijing, China, July 16-23, 2006

 

Scientific program of COSPAR and abstract submission instructions:

http://meetings.copernicus.org/cospar2006/

(follow "Details of the Scientific Program", Scientific Commission E and Symposium E2.1/D2.5/E3.5

 

NEW : Abstract deadline postponed to 24 February 2006 (initially 17)

 

Main Scientific Organizers: Luc Damé (France) and Guoxiang Ai (China)

 

Scientific Organizing Committee:

Jean-Louis Bougeret, LESIA, France

Richard Harrison, RAL, UK

Siraj Hasan, Bangalore, India

Todd Hoeksema, Stanford, USA

Oskar von der Luhe, Kiepenheuer, Germany

Hermann Opgenoorth, ESA, NL

Eric Priest, St. Andrews, UK

Alain Roux, CETP, France

Kazunari Shibata, Kyoto, Japan

Sami Solanki, MPI Lindau, Germany

Daniele Spadaro, Catania, Italy

Alan Title, Lockheed, USA

 

We are pleased to invite contributions, oral and poster, to this symposium. 4 sessions are currently planned, divided as follow:

 

1- Current missions results and lessons

2- Planned missions (and ground facilities) expected progresses

3- Theoretical major advances and prospective needs

4- Future missions: rationales, projects, new concepts and technologies

 

It will be the occasion, for the participants, to state on the progresses and advances obtained with current missions (SOHO, TRACE and RHESSI) but also to present the next-to-come missions (STEREO, SOLAR-B, CORONAS-PHOTON, SUNRISE, SDO, SST) and the goals they foresee. The theoretical session will state on our current understanding of physical processes at work in the structure and dynamics of the solar core, the mechanisms of evolution and generation of the solar magnetic field and the reconnection processes and energy release in the solar atmosphere but will, most importantly, try to identify the required observables to disentangle models and bring answers to longstanding questions.

 

Finally, the last session will review projects, new mission concepts and technologies which could provide the necessary breakthrough to progress in both helioseismology and magnetic field generation, evolution and reconnection. Future missions could be several and complementary and, hopefully, for the sake of our imagination and talents, happen before the Solar Orbiter which first results are not expected now before mid-2018.

 

After celebrating the 10 successful years of SOHO operations in May (SOHO-17), it is appropriate timing to engage a prospective vision for our near future (and not 2020). It is clear, in that respect, following the development of several major high resolution projects on ground (NSST, GREGOR, ATST), that high resolution is the key to understand Solar Physics processes and that the next step should be in Space: high resolution chromospheric, transition zone and coronal UV, EUV and X-ray imaging and spectroscopy together with magnetograms and 3D spectropolarimetry to attack the problem of magnetic coupling of the photosphere to the chromosphere, transition zone and heliosphere. An efficient way to address the longstanding issue of coronal and chromospheric heating.

 


Symposium E2.1/D2.5/E3.5 Updated Programme with indication of Solicited Talks
The Symposium is divided in 4 sessions;
Titles and Solicited speakers are indicated; Solicited Talks are 30 mn otherwise indicated.

 


1- Current missions results and lessons

SOHO - Bernhard Fleck
TRACE - Alan Title [cancelled]
RHESSI - Robert Lin
STEREO/SECCHI - Russell Howard

2- Planned missions (and ground facilities) expected progresses
SOLAR-B - Saku Tsuneta
SDO (HMI) - Todd Hoeksema (20 mn solicited)
SDO (AIA) - Karel Schrijver (20 mn solicited)
SST - Guoxiang Ai [TBC]
CORONAS-PHOTON - Yuri Kotov
CORONAS-PHOTON (TESIS) - Sergey Kuzin (20 mn solicited)
SUNRISE - Sami Solanki (20 mn solicited)
PROBA-2 (Lyra & Swap) - Jean-François Hochedez (20 mn solicited)

(ground sub-session: ground orientations - 20 mn solicited)
High resolution NSST - Goran Scharmer [cancelled]
High resolution GREGOR - Hardi Peter
High resolution BBSO NST - Phil Goode

High resolution ATST - Thomas Rimmele


3- Theoretical major advances and prospective needs
Chromospheric dynamics - Siraj Hasan
Coronal heating and the need for high-resolution observations - James Klimchuk
Coronal dynamics and heating theories - Boris Gudiksen
3D Spectropolarimetry - Javier Trujillo-Bueno (20 mn solicited) [cancelled]
High-resolution needs - Igor Veselovsky (20 mn solicited)


4- Future missions: rationales, projects, new concepts and technologies
SOLAR PROBE - Don Hassler
SOLARNET - Luc Damé
DYNAMICS - Sylvaine Turck-Chieze (20 mn solicited)




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