SH12A:
Status and Challenges in Coronal Heating: Theory, Observations, and Simulation of Physical Processes I

Session ID#: 4423

Monday, 15 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
2011 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Prof. William H Matthaeus, University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States and Jonathan W Cirtain, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
Primary Convener:  Prof. William H Matthaeus, University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States
Co-conveners:  Jonathan W Cirtain, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, Steven R Cranmer, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States and Bart De Pontieu, Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Prof. William H Matthaeus, University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States
Index Terms:

7507 Chromosphere [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7509 Corona [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7511 Coronal holes [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7827 Kinetic and MHD theory [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A Personal View of Coronal Heating: Progress and Rabbit Holes (Invited) (5204)
Edward DeLuca, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States
A New Class of Weak Radio Bursts: Nanoflares and Coronal Heating? (28671)
Divya Oberoi1, Akshay Suresh2, Colin Lonsdale3, Brian Timar4, Victor Pankratius3 and MWA Collaboration, (1)National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Pune, India, (2)Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune, Pune, India, (3)MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Dissipation and Reconnection in Current Sheets in Turbulence of a Coronal Loop Model (28238)
Minping Wan, University of Delaware, Newark, United States, Antonio F Rappazzo, UCLA, Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, Prof. William H Matthaeus, University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States, Sergio Servidio, Universita' della Calabria, Rende, Italy and Sean Oughton, University of Waikato, Department of Mathematics, Hamilton, New Zealand
NuSTAR’s first solar observations: Search for a high energy X-ray component to the “non-flaring” Sun (25290)
Iain G Hannah1, Andrew Marsh2, Lindsay Glesener3, David Miles Smith4, Brian Grefenstette5, Sam Krucker6, Hugh S Hudson7, Gordon J Hurford8, Stephen M White9, Amir Caspi10, Steven Christe11, Albert Y Shih11, Richard Mewaldt12, Michael Pivovaroff13, Julia Vogel13 and The NuSTAR Science Team, (1)University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, (2)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (3)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, United States, (4)University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (5)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (6)Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (7)Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (8)Univ California, Berkeley, CA, United States, (9)Air Force Research Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (10)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (11)NASA GSFC, Solar Physics Lab, Greenbelt, United States, (12)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (13)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Observational Evidence of Resonant Absorption in Oscillating Prominence (Invited) (5914)
Joten Okamoto, ISAS Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Kanagawa, Japan, Patrick Antolin, Department of Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Bart De Pontieu, Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA, United States, Han Uitenbroek, National Solar Observatory, Tucson, AZ, United States, Tom Van Doorsselaere, Centre for mathematical Plasma Astrophysics (CmPA), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium and Takaaki Yokoyama, University of Tokyo, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
Turbulence and Heating in the Side and Wake Regions of Coronal Mass Ejection in the Low Corona (16458)
Siteng Fan1, Jiansen He2, Limei Yan2, Lei Zhang2 and Steven Tomczyk3, (1)Southern University of Science and Technology, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Shenzhen, China, (2)Peking University, Beijing, China, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, United States
Elucidating Coronal Microkinetics through In-Situ Observations of Solar-Wind Ions (Invited) (4983)
Bennett Maruca, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
A Correlation Between the Solar Wind's Alfvén Point and the Coronal Heating Boundary (13204)
Tristan David Weber, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States and Justin Christophe Kasper, University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States