Call for Action: New Horizons – Our Only Outpost in the Outer Heliosphere
Authors: Pontus C. Brandt (Johns Hopkins APL, MD, USA), Andrew R. Poppe (UC Berkeley, CA, USA), Merav Opher, (Boston University, MA, USA), Matt E. Hill,View More
Category: 2026 WG4: Microphysics (reconnection, turbulence, etc)
SHINE 2026 abstracts associated with WG4
Heavy Ions as in-situ Diagnostics of Solar Wind Formation and Heating
Authors: Aidan Nakhleh (University of Michigan), Nicholeen Viall (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), Sue Lepri (University of Michigan), Jim Raines (University of Michigan) Density andView More
Switchback Formation and The Role of Instabilities in Non-Adiabatic Evolution of the Solar Wind Across the Coronal Conversion Layer
Authors: Dominic Payne (University of Michigan), Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti (University of Michigan) Using data from Parker Solar Probe encounters 13-23, we analyze the statistics of switchbacksView More
Transport of Nearly Incompressible Turbulence in the Outer Heliosphere
Authors: Bart van der Holst (Boston University), Merav Opher (Boston University) The global outer heliosphere model in the Space Weather Modeling Framework (SWMF) describes theView More
Temporal Evolution of a 3D Coronal Plasmoid, and its Impact on the Net Reconnection Flux Rate and Flare Ribbon Fine Structure.
Authors: Marcel F. Corchado Albelo (University of Colorado Boulder/LASP/NSO), Maria D. Kazachenko (Univeristy of Colorado Boulder/LASP/NSO), Joel T. Dahlin (Univeristy of Maryland/GSFC), Ryan J. FrenchView More
Radial Evolution of Turbulent Fluctuations Near Sun Using Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter Measurements
Authors: Monika Karki (UAH), Gary P. Zank (UAH), Ben Altermann (NASA), Laxman Adhikari (UAH) We investigate the radial evolution of the turbulent fluctuations in theView More
Onset of Fast Magnetic Reconnection induced by Resistivity Gradients with application to lower solar atmosphere
Authors: Shiva Bikram Thapa (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA), Yi-Hsin Liu (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College, Hanover,View More
Resistive instabilities of current sheets in stratified plasmas with a gravitational field
Authors: Faisal Sayed (Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA), Anna Tenerani (Department of Physics, The University of TexasView More
Free Energy Sources of Ion-scale Waves Observed by Parker Solar Probe
Authors: Niranjana Shankarappa (University of Arizona) , Kristopher Klein (University of Arizona), Mihailo Martinovic (University of Arizona), Trevor Bowen (UC Berkeley), PSP SPAN team (UCView More
Calibration and Validation of the SOLAR-1 Magnetometer
Authors: Konstantinos Horaites (CIRES/NOAA), Nathan Howard (CIRES/NOAA), Fadil Inceoglu (CIRES/NOAA), Juan V. Rodriguez (CIRES/NOAA), Michael Grotenhuis (Chesapeake Aerospace at NASA), Jeffrey Kronenwetter (Chesapeake Aerospace atView More
Incoherence of a Coronal Mass Ejection with the Occurrence of Internal Magnetic Reconnection Investigated by Multi-Spacecraft Measurements
Authors: Bin Zhuang (University of New Hampshire), Noé Lugaz (University of New Hampshire), Charles J. Farrugia (University of New Hampshire), Xiaocan Li (Los Alamos NationalView More
Understanding electron motion during Landau damping of a Langmuir wave through the lens of entropy
Authors: Hasith Perera (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University), Paul Cassak (Clemson University), Michael Shay (University of Delaware) Landau damping is a well-studied mechanismView More
The Role of Magnetic Reconnection in Energizing Protons and Heavier Ions at the Heliospheric Current Sheet
Authors: Giulia Murtas (Center for KINETIC Plasma Physics, WVU), Xiaocan Li (LANL / New Mexico Consortium), Fan Guo (LANL), Giuseppe Arrò (UW-Madison), Jeongbhin Seo (LANL),View More
Exploring Magnetic Island Morphology with 2D MHD
Authors: Rayta Pradata (University of Delaware), M. Bilal Khan (University of Delaware), Sean Oughton (University of Waikato Dept. of Mathematics), Francesco Pecora (University of Delaware),View More
Merging of multiple CMEs as the Solar Source of the Grand Geomagnetic Storm in May 2024
Authors: Chin-Chun Wu (Naval Research laboratory); Kan Liou ( SPACE SCIENCE CONSULTING, LLC); Brian E. Wood (Naval Research laboratory) The 10-11 May 2024 grand geomagneticView More
Observational Constraints on Collisionless Heating in the Solar Wind
Authors: Tamar Ervin (UC Berkeley | SSL), Trevor A. Bowen (UC Berkeley | SSL), Alfred Mallet (UC Berkeley | SSL), Philip A. Isenberg (University ofView More