Solar SMA: A New Solar Surveyor of the Sun
Authors: Mari Paz Miralles, Garrett Keating, Katharine Reeves, Chad Madsen, Mark Gurwell (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian) The Solar Submillimeter Array (Solar SMA)View More
Tag: 2026 Session 17. Coronal Heating and Acceleration near the Sun: What Have We Learned and What Remains to Reach Closure?
Associated with SHINE 2026 Session 17
Strong Prevalence of Hammerhead Velocity Distributions Close to the Heliospheric Current Sheet
Authors: Srijan Bharati Das (CfA), Jaye Verniero (NASA-GSFC), Samuel Badman (CfA). Robert Alexander (UMD), Michael Terres (CfA), Federico Fraschetti (CfA), Kristoff Paulson (CfA), Fernando CarcabosoView More
Proton Heating and Parallel-Ion-Cyclotron-Wave Feedback in Hybrid-PIC Simulations of Forced, Imbalanced Turbulence
Authors: Evan L. Yerger (Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA), Michael F. Zhang (Physics Department, University of Otago, 730 CumberlandView More
Chromospheric Heating by Dissipation of Quasi-2D Turbulence
Authors: Krishna Khanal (Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, University of Alabama in Huntsville), Gary P. Zank (Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research,View 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
Tracking Magnetic Topological Change in a Time-Dependent Coronal Model
Authors: Emily Mason (PSI), Roberto Lionello (PSI), Cooper Downs (PSI), Jon Linker (PSI), Viacheslav Titov (PSI) In this presentation, we apply the slip-back mapping methodView More
Diagnostics of High-Frequency Acoustic Waves at Two Heights in the Lower Solar Atmosphere: Observational Limitations via Realistic Modeling
Authors: Jessica Hamilton (Georgia State University), Viacheslav Sadykov (Georgia State University), Irina Kitiashvili (NASA Ames Research Center, Oana Vesa (Stanford University) Investigating the propagation andView More
Minor ions as a probe of collisionless turbulent heating: extreme anisotropy and temperature inversions
Authors: Michael F. Zhang (University of Otago), Evan L. Yerger (University of New Hampshire), Matthew W. Kunz (Princeton University), Jonathan Squire (University of Otago) AlfvénicView More
PUNCH in Place: Variations on Multi-Observatory Composites
Authors: C. Gilly (NWRA) The PUNCH mission images the young solar wind across a field of view that spans several orders of magnitude in heliocentricView More
Toward a Dynamic Chromosphere for AWSoM-R: A Field-Aligned Two-Fluid Model of Ionization and Chromospheric Evaporation
Authors: Keheng Zhu (University of Michigan), Xianyu Liu (University of Michigan), Igor Sokolov (University of Michigan), Lulu Zhao (University of Michigan) The Alfvén Wave SolarView More
Solar Radio Observing Capabilities at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory: Status Update
Authors: Bin Chen (NJIT), Sijie Yu (NJIT), Peijin Zhang (NJIT), Owen Giersch (NJIT), Caius Selhorst (NJIT), Yuqian Wei (NJIT), Jonas Flygare (Caltech), Meiqi Wang (NJIT),View More
First maps of Radial Velocities of Coronal Features from 1-3 Rs inferred from Proba-3/ASPIICS
Authors: Zac Bailey (Institute for Astronomy at University of Hawaii at Manoa), Shadia Habbal (Institute for Astronomy at University of Hawaii at Manoa), Colby HaggertyView 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
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
Progress and Prospects for Solar Rotational Tomography
Authors: Richard Frazin (UMich), Federico Nuevo (CONICET, AR), Alberto Vásquez (CONICET, AR), Enrico Landi (UMich), Ward Manchester (UMich) Solar Rotational Tomography (SRT) of the coronaView More
Magnetic Field Line Mappings and Field-Aligned Integrals as a Dimensionality-Reducing Tool to Analyze 3D Models of Coronal Heating and Loop Hydrodynamics
Authors: Cooper Downs (PSI) Modern studies of coronal heating often involve conducting magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) or field-aligned hydrodynamic (HD) simulations of realistic magnetic field configurations inView 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
Understanding how Coronal Heating and Magnetic Field Scaling Affects Global Properties of the Low and Middle Corona
Authors: Caroline L. Evans (Univeristy of Colorado Boulder, CIRES, NSO), Cooper Downs (Predictive Science Inc.), Donald Schmit (CIRES) The magnetic field of the Sun isView 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
Decoupling CME Properties from Solar Cycle Effects and Heliocentric Distance
Authors: Yakub Olufadi (University of New Hampshire), Nada AlHadda (University of New Hampshire), Noe Lugaz (University of New Hampshire), Bin Zhuang (University of New Hampshire),View 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