SH11C:
The Great American Solar Eclipse 2017: New Results and Follow-Up Posters


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Session ID#: 51744

Session Description:
The total solar eclipse of 2017 was the best-observed eclipse in history. Crossing the entire continental U.S., an estimated 215 million American adults (and untold children) viewed the eclipse in some fashion, with an estimated 20 million people experiencing totality in person. The eclipse was a rare opportunity for incredible solar, ionospheric, atmospheric , and even planetary science, This session follows up on first results presented at last year's AGU Fall Meeting highlighting experiments following the eclipse path, including new instrumentation, new platforms, and continent-spanning science enabled by citizen participation, with funding from NASA, NSF, industry, and individuals. We invite all eclipse-related science presentations, including updated results following detailed analysis after last year's session, and new results not yet presented, as well as outreach successes and lessons learned, with an eye towards breakthrough science for future eclipses, including in South America (2019, 2020) and the next U.S. eclipse in 2024.
Primary Convener:  Amir Caspi, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Edward DeLuca, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States and Henry D Winter III, ARISA Lab, L.L.C., Medford, United States
Primary Liaison:  Amir Caspi, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States
Chairs:  Edward DeLuca, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States, Henry D Winter III, ARISA Lab, L.L.C., Medford, United States and Amir Caspi, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Henry D Winter III, ARISA Lab, L.L.C., Medford, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • P - Planetary Sciences
  • SA - SPA-Aeronomy
Index Terms:

7507 Chromosphere [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7509 Corona [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7594 Instruments and techniques [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7829 Kinetic waves and instabilities [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Computational study of electrodynamics and irregularity development in the August 21, 2017 solar eclipse. (453781)
Chirag Skolar, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Kevin T. Crofton Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Blacksburg, United States, Bhuvana Srinivasan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Kevin T. Crofton Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Wayne Scales, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States and Gregory Duane Earle, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, United States
Ionospheric Effects of the August 2017 Eclipse: Empirically Guided Modeling with Comparisons to Data (458922)
Magdalina Louise Moses, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, Lee Joseph Kordella, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Gregory Duane Earle, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, United States, Douglas Patrick Drob, Naval Research Lab, Space Science Division, Washington, United States and Joseph Huba, US Naval Research Laboratory, Plasma Physics Division, Washington, DC, United States
Topside Ionospheric Responses to the 21 August 2017 Eclipse Observed by DMSP Spacecraft (348920)
Marc R Hairston, University of Texas at Dallas, William B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences, Richardson, TX, United States, Sebastijan Mrak, Boston University, Boston, United States and William Robin Coley, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States
Unambiguous evidence of generation of TID and Bow waves during the Solar Eclipse on 21stAugust using GNSS TEC observations over entire US. (436212)
Julian Eisenbeis, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, Giovanni Occhipinti, Université de Paris, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, CNRS, Paris, France, Elvira Astafyeva, IPGP - Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France and Lucie Rolland, OCA - Géoazur - Université Côte d'Azur, Valbonne, France
Quantifying the Meteorological Effects of the 2017 Great American Solar Eclipse Using Citizen Scientist Observations (453413)
Jason Brant Dodson1, Marile Colon Robles1, Cayley Cruickshank DeFontes2, Jessica Taylor3 and Kristen Linn Kopp Weaver4, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, (2)USRA, Yorktown, United States, (3)NASA Langley, Newport News, United States, (4)Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research, Greenbelt, MD, United States
The Megamovie Program: Data Analysis and Lessons Learned (453297)
Hugh S Hudson, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States and The Eclipse Megamovie Team
2017 Total Solar Eclipse Expedition of KASI (352277)
Su-Chan Bong1, Seonghwan Choi1, Jihun Kim1, Jongyeob Park1, Bi-Ho Jang1, Young-deuk Park2, Kyung-Suk F Cho1 and Kyuhyoun Cho3, (1)KASI Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Daejeon, South Korea, (2)Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South), (3)Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Investigation of Coronal Electron Density Distributions during the Total Solar Eclipse of 2017 Aug 21 (376187)
Jae-Ok Lee, Kyung-Suk F Cho and Su-Chan Bong, KASI Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Daejeon, South Korea
Physical Conditions in the Solar Corona Derived from the 2017 August 21 Total Solar Eclipse Observations (451503)
Nat Gopalswamy1, Nelson Leslie Reginald2, Seiji Yashiro3, Pertti Makela4, N. Thakur5, Barbara J Thompson2, Qian Gong6 and Chun Ming Mark Cheung7, (1)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, United States, (2)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (3)Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, (4)Catholic University of America, Washington DC, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (7)CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science Geraldton, Perth, Australia
AIR-Spec 2.0 Plans for the July 2 2019 South Pacific Eclipse (442343)
Edward DeLuca1, Jenna Samra2, Chad Allen Madsen3, Peter Cheimets4, Vanessa Marquez1 and Louis Lussier5, (1)Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, United States, (4)SAO, Cambridge, United States, (5)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Upgrading Stability of an Airborne Infrared Spectrometer (AIR-Spec) for Coronal Observations (446457)
Marissa R Menzel1, Jenna Samra2, Vanessa Marquez3, Peter Cheimets4 and Edward DeLuca3, (1)Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, United States, (2)Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)SAO, Cambridge, United States

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