SH34A:
New Approaches to Studying the Middle Solar Corona I


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Session ID#: 61227

Session Description:
In this session we assess the latest advances in instrumentation for observing from the solar surface to the so-called middle corona — the region of the corona out to heights of about 5 solar radii — and problems in coronal physics that could be addressed using observations of this region. In particular, we focus on current and future instrumentation that could address the question of the properties of extended EUV observations or their relationship with white light observations and structures extending into the heliosphere. We seek talks discussing what can be learnt from these observations and how they influence our understanding of structures transiting this region, including streamers, pseudo-streamers and more dynamic structures such as eruptions and flows, whose characteristics (expansion, speed, etc.) are largely dictated by this region. We also encourage presentations of new techniques to access the data, including image processing techniques and new data analysis tools.
Primary Convener:  Daniel B Seaton, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Dr. James Paul Mason, PhD, University of Colorado Boulder, LASP, Boulder, United States, Matthew John West, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, United States and Neal E Hurlburt, Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Matthew John West, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, United States
Chairs:  Daniel B Seaton, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States and Matthew John West, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Dr. James Paul Mason, PhD, University of Colorado Boulder, LASP, Boulder, United States
Index Terms:

7509 Corona [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7549 Ultraviolet emissions [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7594 Instruments and techniques [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Unsolved Problems in the Middle Corona (Invited) (345885)
Steven R Cranmer, University of Colorado at Boulder, APS, Boulder, CO, United States
How Can Off-limb Spectroscopy Answer Fundamental Questions on the Genesis of the Solar Wind and CMEs? (378221)
Angelos Vourlidas1, Yuan-Kuen Ko2, J. M. Laming2, Clarence Korendyke3, Leonard Strachan4 and LOCKYER Team, (1)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (3)Space System Research Corporation, Alexandria, United States, (4)Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States
Identifying Slow Solar Wind Sources (378389)
Nathalia Alzate, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States and Nicholeen M Viall, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States
Eclipse and Spacecraft Observations of the Middle Corona (357188)
Jay M Pasachoff, Williams College, Astronomy, Williamstown, MA, United States, Daniel B Seaton, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States; NOAA, Boulder, United States and Williams College Solar Eclipse Expedition
Exploring the Transition Corona with the Coronal Spectrographic Imager in the EUV (COSIE) (Invited) (345518)
Sabrina L Savage1, Leon Golub2, Edward DeLuca2 and COSIE Mission Team, (1)National Space Science and Technology Center, Huntsville, United States, (2)Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States
Observations of Solar Eruptions On-Disk through the Low Corona out to 4 solar radii: Current Observations from SDO and Proposed Instruments to Fill the Gap (436068)
Phillip C Chamberlin1, Joan Burkepile2, Dr. Francis Gerard Eparvier, Ph.D.3, Yuhong Fan4, Sarah E Gibson2, Andrew R Jones5, Dr. James Paul Mason, PhD6, Scott William McIntosh7, Jeffrey S Newmark8, William Dean Pesnell9, Daniel B Seaton10, Barbara J Thompson11, Steven Tomczyk12 and Thomas N Woods13, (1)University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)NCAR, Boulder, United States, (5)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States, (6)University of Colorado Boulder, LASP, Boulder, United States, (7)High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, United States, (8)NASA Headquarters, Washington, United States, (9)NASA / GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (10)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (11)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (12)National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, United States, (13)University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States
Early Evolution of CMEs as Seen in Ly α and White Light by Future ASO-S/LST (427079)
Li Feng1, Hui Li1, Lei Lu1, Beili Ying1, Alessandro Bemporad2, Meng Jin3, Ward Manchester4, Bernd Inhester5, Thomas Wiegelmann5 and Weiqun Gan1, (1)Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China, (2)INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino, Pino Torinese, Italy, (3)Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA, United States, (4)University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (5)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Goettingen, Germany
PROBA-3/ASPIICS: Giant Formation Flying Coronagraph to Study the Low and Middle Solar Corona (451934)
Andrei Zhukov, Royal Observatory of Belgium, SIDC, Brussels, Belgium; Moscow State University, Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow, Russia and PROBA-3/ASPIICS Science Team

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