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*** Heliosphere News  Jan. 11, 2016 ***

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** ANNOUNCEMENTS

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*)  ST1.3: Physics of the Outer Heliosphere, Particle Acceleration, and Solar Wind Disturbances: Preparation for IMAP (2nd Announcement)

**PLEASE NOTE ABSTRACTS DUE IN 2 DAYS

Convener: Mihir Desai, Co-Conveners: Nicola Fox, Hans-Jorg Fahr

The emphasis of the session is on all aspects of the physics of the outer heliosphere and its interactions with the interstellar medium, particle acceleration at the sun and throughout the heliosphere and beyond, and understanding the nature of solar and interplanetary disturbances that impact our Earth’s environment. The session abstract is as follows:

Measurements over the last decade have revolutionized our understanding of (1) the heliosphere’s boundaries formed through the interactions with the interstellar neighborhood, (2) the acceleration and transport of solar and heliospheric suprathermal and energetic particle populations, and (3) the properties of the shocked solar wind, its embedded magnetic fields and convected interplanetary disturbances that impact geospace in the inner heliosphere. The US National Research Council’s 2012 Solar and Space Physics Decadal Survey recognized the critical need to urgently make progress in all three areas simultaneously, and recommended the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission as the next and highest priority science target for the Solar Terrestrial Probes mission line. This session solicits relevant observational results, especially from IBEX, Voyager, Cassini, New Horizons, ACE and STEREO, that provided these breakthroughs and related theoretical efforts making specific predictions and raising outstanding open questions for developing a more complete picture in all three science areas targeted by IMAP.

 

Please, consider that the abstract submission deadline is 13 January 2016.

 

For more details see: http://egu2016.eu/home.html 

 

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