SOLAR-C Science Definition Meeting 2008 (SCSDM2008)

    18-21 November, 2008 @ ISAS/JAXA Sagamihara Campus

    Sponsored by:
    SOLAR-C Working Group, JAXA
    SOLAR-C Preparatory Office, NAOJ, NINS

    Organizing Committe:
    Japan: Tetsuya Watanabe (chair, NAOJ), Kiyoshi Ichimoto (Kyoto),
    Toshifumi Shimizu (JAXA), Saku Tsuneta (JAXA WG chair, NAOJ)
    ESA: Bernhard Fleck (GSFC/ESA), Len Culhane (MSSL)
    USA: Jonathan Cirtain (MSFC), Ted Tarbell (LMSAL)

Opening

Plan A Discussion

System requirements

Science

Activity cycle and solar dynamo
  • Solar dynamo : Rempel
  • Helipseismology of high-latitude regions : Kosovichev
  • Current diagnostic capability of helioseismology and future direction : Gizon
  • Sensitivity of large-angle method to detect deep-sheeted magnetic flux : Sekii
  • Solar-C Plan-A instrumentation for helioseismology : Apporchaux
Activity at high lattitudes
  • Polar magnetic fields : Tsuneta
  • Polar magnetic fields based on SOLIS : Harvey
  • Magnetic flux budget in polar region : Schrijver
  • Coronal activity : Cirtain
High-speed solar wind
  • Solar wind problems and what will newly be expected from Plan-A observations : Sakurai
  • Solar wind acceleration : Imada
  • Solar irradiance observation for sun-earth connection : Schmutz
  • Polaris/SPI : Alexander

Summary and Discussion

Common Section

Sun-Earth Connection

Future UV Observation

  • High throughput EUV spectrograph : Davila
  • UV/EUV spectroscopic observations : Doschek
  • Coronal imager + Lyman-alpha observation : Auchere 1,2

Future X-ray Observation

  • High resolution direction in X-ray observations : DeLuca
  • Photon-counting spectroscopy with X-ray observations : Sakao

Plan-B Discussion

System requirements

  • Contamination control required for UV observations : Urayama
  • Ultra-high data rate telemetry and scientific operations : Shimizu

Science

Directions of Science scientific researches
  • The Dynamic Chromosphere : Carlsson
  • Heating and Dynamics of the Corona : Klimchuk
Observation of upper atmospheres
  • Dynamics of solar transition region : Kamio
  • Prominence and coronal magnetic fielda : Okamoto
  • High resolutional obsevation in Ly-alpha : Vourlidas
Magnetic field measurements at chromosphere and corona
  • SOT highlights on magnetic fields : Tarbell
  • Future directions of magnetic field measurement (1) : Keller
  • Future directions of magnetic field measurement (2) : IR Coronal emission polarization : Lin/Tomczyk
  • Magnetic field measurements in the chromosphere : Solanki
  • New insights from Hinode-VTT He10830 observations : Ishikawa
  • Polarized radiation diagnostic methods for "measuring" chromospheric and coronal magnetic fields : Trujillo-Bueno
  • How we can improve the coronal field modeling and sciences enhanced with the improved modeling : Schrijver
  • MHD simulation (sunspots/general fields) : Rempel
  • High-res spectroscopic observations in chromosphere : Isobe
  • Multi-object spectrograph : Tsuneta
  • UV instrumentation : Fineschi
  • IRIS (Interface Region Imaging Spectrometer) : Title

Summary and Discussion

Discussion; Plan-A vs Plan-B

Presentation Uplaod Pages

SCSDM2008 Uplaod pages
(Participants Only)