SOLAR-C project

August 14-17, 2012 at the University of St Andrews

Agenda

Opening Session

• Message from Prof. Junjiro Onoda, director general of ISAS/JAXA
  to be read by Dr. Munetaka Ueno, director of the ISAS space science program office
• Message from NASA Headquarters
• Message from Dr. Luigi Colangeli, Head, ESA Solar System Missions Division and Coordinator, ESA Solar System Mission

Session 1: Current status of SOLAR-C mission

• Solar-C mission: Saku Tsuneta
• Model instruments baseline specification and key open issues (SUVIT, LEMUR, XIT)
  • SUVIT: Kiyoshi Ichimoto
  • LEMUR: Toshifumi Shimizu
  • XIT: Taro Sakao

Session 2: 3D magnetic field configuration and its dynamic behavior

• Formation and sensitivity of SUVIT lines in a dynamic atmosphere: Mats Carlsson
• Zeeman diagnostics of chromospheric lines: Hector Soscas-Navarro
• Contribution talk: The Polarization of the h and k Lines of Mg II for Exploring with SOLAR-C the Magnetism of the Upper Solar Chromosphere: Luca Belluzzi & Javier Trujillo Bueno
• What is the best way to use the chromospheric field information in coronal field extrapolation?: Thomas Wiegelmann
• Observational manifestations of magneto-acoustic wave propagation in solar magnetic structures: Elena Khomenko (speaker: H. Socas-Navarro)

Special presentation

• A new view of the solar corona with HiC: Jonathan Cirtain

Session 3: Chromospheric/coronal heating and fundamental plasma processes

• Potential capability of SOLAR-C coronal instruments for coronal heating problem: Hirohisa Hara
• Contribution talk: Constraining solar atmospheric heating mechanisms by measuring the energy flow from photosphere to corona Bart De Pontieu
• Investigating fundamental physical processes by Solar-C Hiroaki Isobe

Session 4: Prediction of Solar Flares

• For the Prediction of Solar Eruptions: Kanya Kusano

Session 5: Solar-C and societal effects of the Sun

• How can Solar-C address the issue on the long-term solar variability and the Earth climate?: Sami Solanki

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