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

Monday, 15 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  William H Matthaeus, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States and Jonathan W Cirtain, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
Primary Conveners:  William H Matthaeus, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
Co-conveners:  Jonathan W Cirtain, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, Steven R Cranmer, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, Cambridge, MA, United States and Bart De Pontieu, Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  William H Matthaeus, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
A Personal View of Coronal Heating: Progress and Rabbit Holes
Edward E DeLuca, SAO, Cambridge, MA, United States
10:37 AM
 
The Onset of Magnetic Reconnection in the Solar Atmosphere
Rebekah M Evans, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States; Oak Ridge Associated Universities Inc., Oak Ridge, TN, United States, James A Klimchuk, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Bart van der Holst, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
10:54 AM
 
Dissipation and Reconnection in Current Sheets in Turbulence of a Coronal Loop Model
Minping Wan1, Antonio F Rappazzo2, William H Matthaeus1, Sergio Servidio3 and Sean Oughton4, (1)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (2)Advanced Heliophysics, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Universita' della Calabria, Rende, Italy, (4)University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
11:07 AM
 
NuSTAR’s first solar observations: Search for a high energy X-ray component to the “non-flaring” Sun
Iain G Hannah1, Andrew Marsh2, Lindsay Glesener3, David Miles Smith4, Brian Grefenstette5, Sam Krucker3, Hugh S Hudson3, Gordon J Hurford6, Stephen White7, Amir Caspi8, Steven Christe9, Albert Shih9, Richard A Mewaldt5, Michael Pivovaroff10 and Julia Vogel10, (1)University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12, United Kingdom, (2)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (3)Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Univ of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (5)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)Univ California, Berkeley, CA, United States, (7)Air Force Research Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (8)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
11:20 AM
 
Observational Evidence of Resonant Absorption in Oscillating Prominence
Joten Okamoto, ISAS Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Kanagawa, Japan, Patrick Antolin, NAOJ National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo, Japan, Bart De Pontieu, Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA, United States, Han Uitenbroek, National Solar Observatory, Sunspot, New Mexico, United States, United States, Tom Van Doorsselaere, KULeuven, Leuven, Belgium and Takaaki Yokoyama, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
11:37 AM
 
Turbulence and Heating in the Side and Wake Regions of Coronal Mass Ejection in the Low Corona
Siteng Fan1, Jiansen He1, Limei Yan1, Lei Zhang1 and Steven Tomczyk2, (1)Peking University, Beijing, China, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
11:50 AM
 
Elucidating Coronal Microkinetics through In-Situ Observations of Solar-Wind Ions
Bennett Maruca, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
12:07 PM
 
A Correlation Between the Solar Wind's Alfvén Point and the Coronal Heating Boundary
Tristan David Weber and Justin Christophe Kasper, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States