Disentangling Aging and Propagation in Coronal Mass Ejections
Authors: NoeLugaz (SSC, EOS, UNH), Bin Zhuang (SSC, EOS, UNH), Sahanaj Banu (SSC, EOS, UNH), Charlie Farrugia (SSC, EOS, UNH) Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) evolveView More
Category: 2026 WG2: Interplanetary
SHINE 2026 abstracts associated with WG2
A HUX-Like Approach to Solar Wind Forecasting Using Parker Solar Probe as an Upstream Monitor
Authors: Lidiya Ahmed; Michael Stevens; Samuel Badman; Aileen Niesta Most solar-wind prediction methods rely on boundary conditions specified at a fixed inner radius, typically derivedView More
Exoplanet Magnetic Fields Through Comparative Heliophysics
Authors: Anthony Atkinson (Rice University), David Alexander (Rice University) Observations of magnetic fields in extrasolar environments are critical to the current theories of planetary formation,View More
Electrostatic Solitary Waves Around Interplanetary Shocks
Authors: Katelyn Youngjohn, Ivan Vasko, Xi Lu, Vadim Roytershteyn We present a statistical analysis of 287 electrostatic solitary waves observed by the Magnetospheric Multiscale SpacecraftView More
Suprathermal Electron Pitch Angle Distribution Classification in the Inner Heliosphere
Authors: David Galarza (University of Florida), Alicia Petersen (University of Florida) Pitch angle distributions (PADs) of suprathermal electrons serve as vital topological tracers of theView More
SuryaBench: Benchmark Dataset for Advancing Machine Learning Applications in Heliophysics and Space Weather
Authors: Dinesha V. Hegde (Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR), the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH)), Sujit Roy (Earth System Science CenterView More
Pickup Ion Energization throughout the heliosphere
Authors: Bishwas L. Shrestha (Princeton University) Pickup ions (PUIS) produced by the ionization of interstellar and inner-source neutral atoms and subsequently advected by the solarView More
The Solar Wind Helium Abundance: A Solar Activity Indicator Driven by Active Regions
Authors: B. L. Alterman (NASA/GSFC), Yogesh (UIowa), F. Carcaboso (NASA/GSFC), A. Weiss (NASA/GSFC), M. Martinovic (UArizona), J. M. Laming (NRL), B. Maruca (UDel), M. StevensView More
Statistical Analysis of Plasma Properties of slow-Alfvenic wind in the inner heliosphere: Parker Solar Probe Observations
Authors: Vamsee Krishna Jagarlamudi (JHUAPL), Nour Rawafi (JHUAPL) By December 2025, the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) had completed 26 orbits around the Sun. During thisView More
Modeling and Data Analysis of the Solar Energetic Particles during the May 2024 Geostorm Event
Authors: Wenwen Wei(Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA), Christina O. Lee(Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA), JanetView More
Correlation of Spatial Diffusion Upstream of Shocks with their Magnetic Compression: An Application of IMAP’s Living Catalog of Interplanetary Shocks
Authors: M. E. Cuesta (Princeton University), T. S. Horbury (Imperial College London), J. S. Rankin (Princeton University), D. Turner (Applied Physics Lab), S. Raptis (AppliedView More
Toward Better CME Time-of-Arrival Forecasts Using Data-Driven Solar Wind Modeling and Machine Learning
Authors: Syed Raza (The university of Alabama in Huntsville), Talwinder Singh (Georgia State University), Nikolai Pogorelov (The University of Alabama in Huntsville) Coronal mass ejectionsView More
Energetic Particles from Strong Interplanetary Shocks in November 2025 and January 2026
Authors: Nariaki Nitta (Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center), Tamitha Skov (Millersville University), Meng Jin (Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center) We discuss how the following twoView More
An Exploration of Small Flux Rope Boundary Identification Methods
Authors: Amy K. Murphy (University of New Hampshire), Nada Al-Haddad (University of New Hampshire), Noé Lugaz (University of New Hampshire) There have been many methodsView More
Updated Solar Wind Angular Momentum Flux Calculation with Calibrated Transverse Velocity Measured by SPAN-Ion onboard Parker Solar Probe Mission During E22-E27
Authors: Jia Huang (SSL/UCB), Davin E. Larson (SSL/UCB), Orlando Romeo (SSL/UCB), Mingzhe Liu (SSL/UCB), Roberto Livi (SSL/UCB), Ali Rahmati (SSL/UCB), Phyllis Whittlesey (SSL/UCB), Samer T.View More
3D Magnetic Null Points Formation and Motion During Reconnection in the Laboratory
Authors: X. Yu (UW-Madison), J. Egedal (UW-Madison), P. Gradney (UW-Madison), C. Kuchta (UW-Madison), J. Nordstrom (UW-Madison), J. Olson (UW-Madison), & C. Forest (UW-Madison) In configurationsView More
Viewing the S-Web from Within: ADAPT-WSA Mapping onto WISPR Observations of the Inner Corona
Authors: Evangelos Paouris (JHUAPL), Samantha Wallace (Department of Physical Sciences, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University), Angelos Vourlidas (JHUAPL), Charles Nick Arge (GSFC, NASA) We present a 3DView More
Modern Tools for White Light Geometric Reconstructions with Mass Estimates
Authors: Christina Kay (JHU APL) Remote imaging of the Sun, corona, and interplanetary space allow us to observe structures as they develop and how theyView More
Localizing Structure of the March 13, 2023 CME with PSP/WISPR and SO/SOLOHI
Authors: Phillip Hess (NRL), Erika Palmerio (PSI), Robin Colaninno (NRL), Mark Linton (NRL), Volker Bothmer (Institut für Astrophysik und Geophysik, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany) Coronal massView More
Coronal Mass Ejections: From Solar Origins through the Solar Wind
Authors: S. E. Gibson (NSF NCAR/HAO) In this talk I will discuss CMEs, from their initiation in the lower solar corona to their propagation andView More
Geoeffectivity of Solar Wind Heavy Ions
Authors: Chris Jia (Stanford University, The University of Michigan), Susan T. Lepri (The University of Michigan), Liang Zhao (The University of Michigan), Jim M. RainesView More
SoloHI Low Latency Data Product for Space Weather
Authors: Robin Colaninno (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory), Phillip Hess (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory), Eleni Nikou (NRC Research Associate, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory), Teresa Nieves-Chinicilla (NASAView More
Solar Wind Turbulence near the Alfven Surface
Authors: Riddhi Bandyopadhyay (University of Delaware), Sujan Gautam (University of Delaware), William Matthaeus (University of Delaware) The dissipation of turbulent fluctuations in the collisionless solarView More
Measurements of CMEs and SIRs from Sunward of the L1 Point: Space Weather Perspectives
Authors: N. Lugaz (UNH), B. Zhuang (UNH), N. Al-Haddad (UNH), S. Banu (UNH) Large-scale structures are thought to be either radially propagating, like coronal massView More
Distinguishing Erupted from Confined CMEs in Sun-as-a-Star Observations: AWSoM MHD Simulations with Automated Spectral Fitting and Doppler Shift Extraction
Authors: Tong Shi (SETI Institute), Meng Jin (Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Lab), Xianyu Liu (University of Michigan) Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) on the SunView More
Radial evolution of near-Sun switchbacks occurrence rate, size, and Alfvénicity
Authors: Xiaolei Li (Auburn Univerisity), Chen Shi (Auburn University) Magnetic switchbacks, characterized by reversals of magnetic field direction, are widely observed in the inner heliosphereView More
A Fully Automated CME Simulation Pipeline Developed by the CLEAR Space Weather Center of Excellence
Authors: Nikolett Biro (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Lulu Zhao (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Igor Sokolov (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Sailee Sawant (UniversityView More
Statistical Analysis of Electrostatic Waves in Interplanetary Shocks
Authors: Xi Lu (UTD), Ivan Vasko (UTD), Zubair Shaikh (UTD), Forrest Mozer (UCB) Interplanetary shocks are ubiquitous in the heliosphere and are always associated withView More
Solar Orbiter’s far-side magnetogram impacts on coronal holes and solar wind predictions
Authors: Evangelia Samara (NASA/GSFC and The Catholic University of America), C. Nick Arge (NASA/GSFC), Samuel J. Schonfeld (AFRL), Alison Farrish (NASA/GSFC and George Mason University),View More
Cross-scale Structuring of Coronal Mass Ejection-driven Shocks with Implications to Suprathermal to Energetic Particles
Authors: R. C. Allen (SwRI), G. C. Ho (SwRI), S. K. Vines (SwRI), M. H. Walker (JHU), S. Davis (UTSA/SwRI), G. M. Mason (APL), M.View More
The structure of the solar wind and solar sources as organized by magnetolatitude during solar maximum
Authors: Yeimy J. Rivera (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian), Parker Solar Probe & Solar Orbiter team Parker Solar Probe (Parker) has completed multipleView More
Have Your Cake and Eat it Too: Cutting Edge and Useful Simulations of the SEP Radiation Environment
Authors: Tams I. Gombosi (University of Michigan) Physics-based simulations of SEP events are one of the computational grand challenges of heliophysics. They are also essentialView More
The VOCAL Framework: Conceptual Vocabulary as the Binding Constraint on Human-AI Collaboration Quality
Authors: Andres Munoz-Jaramillo (Southwest Research Institute), Isabel Tejada-Sanchez (Universidad de los Andes), Phoebe Mahlin (Universidad de California – Berkeley), Claudia Holland (Universidad de California –View More
Solar Wind Origins and Physical Processes: Survey of the Leading Candidates
Authors: Steven R. Cranmer (CU Boulder) Coronal heating and solar wind acceleration are not “problems” because of an absence of proposed explanations, but because thereView More
Probing a coronal mass ejection near the Sun “head to toe”
Authors: Carlos R. Braga (JHU/APL), Vamsee K. Jagarlamudi (JHU/APL), Angelos Vourlidas (JHU/APL), Guillermo Stenborg (JHU/APL), Nour Raouafi (JHU/APL) While most spacecraft intercept coronal mass ejectionsView More
Direct detection of Merged Interaction Regions in the Interstellar Boundary Explorer data
Authors: Nehpreet K. Walia (Princeton University) , Daniel B. Reisenfeld (Los Alamos National Laboratory), David J. McComas (Princeton University), Herbert O. Funsten (Los Alamos NationalView More
Science gaps in understanding the near-Earth solar wind at mesoscales
Authors: Olga P. Verkhoglyadova (JPL, California Institute of Technology), Panagiotis Vergados (JPL, California Institute of Technology), Justin S. Boland (JPL, California Institute of Technology), JamieView More
Global-scale Coronal Pseudostreamer Evolution and the Creation of Secondary Heliospheric Current Sheets
Authors: Lizet Casillas(UCLA), Benjamin Lynch(UCLA), Marco Velli(UCLA), Victor Reville(irap), Olga Panasenco (Advanced Heliophysics) The heliospheric current sheet (HCS) is the boundary between open magnetic fieldsView More
Laboratory investigation of Alfvén wave phase mixing under conditions relevant to coronal holes and its Implications for coronal heating
Authors: Sayak Bose (Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Troy Carter (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Michael Hahn (Columbia University), Daniel Wolf Savin (Columbia University) andView More
A Machine Learning-Ready Dataset of GAMERA-GL CME Simulations for Forward and Inverse Modeling of the Interplanetary Magnetic Field at L1
Authors: Viacheslav Sadykov (Georgia State University), Elena Provornikova (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory), Dustin Kempton (Georgia State University), Djalil Sawadogo (Georgia State University), Evangelos PaourisView More