Heliosphere News - May 2, 2017

A newsletter devoted to Heliospheric Science.

Editor: Nathan Schwadron (nschwadron at unh.edu)

Co-Editor: Mihir Desai (mdesai at swri.edu)

Co-Editor: Eric Zirnstein (ejz at princeton.edu)

Co-Editor: Merav Opher (mopher at bu.edu)

Co-Editor: Adele Corona (icnsmeetings at gmail.com)

Web site editor: Ken Fairchild (Ken.Fairchild at unh.edu)

If you are interested in being added to the list, being removed from the list, or posting an announcement, please send information to Nathan, Mihir, Eric, Merav, or Adele. Posts are limited to ascii text. Newsletters are archived on the following website: http://heliospherenews.unh.edu/

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Announcements

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1. PAPER: Seven Years of Imaging the Global Heliosphere with IBEX" by McComas et al, 2017 and data products

2. PAPER: The Plasma Depletion Layer Beyond the Heliopause …, Cairns and Fuselier, 2017

3. ANNOUNCEMENT: Draft Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for Solar Terrestrial Probes #5 Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) Mission Released for Community Comment

4. JOB OPENING: Applications are invited for two PhD positions (Early Stage Researchers, ESR) at the Politecnico di Torino

5. MEETING: MMS Science Workshop, Boulder, Colorado, June 5-9, 2017

6. MEETING: 2017 GEM Summer Workshop, Portsmouth, Virginia, June 18-23, 2017

7. MEETING: Space Weather of the Heliosphere: Processes and Forecasts, IAU Symposium 335 - July 17-21, 2017 - University of Exeter, UK

8. MEETING: GOOD HOPE FOR EARTH SCIENCES: IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA, 27 August to 1 September 2017, Cape Town, South Africa

9. MEETING: ASTRONUM-2017 - 12th International Conference on Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows, Saint Malo, France, 26-30 June, 2017

10. PAPER: The Twist of the Draped Interstellar Magnetic Field Ahead of the Heliopause: A Magnetic Reconnection Driven Rotational Discontinuity, Opher, M., Drake, J., Swisdak, M., Zieger, B., Toth, G. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 839, Issue 1, article id. L12, 6 pp. (2017).

11. MEETING: NSF-SHINE Session #13: “Dissipation in the Solar Wind: Kinetic Processes”, Saint-Sauveur, Quebec, Canada, July 24-28, 2017.

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1. Re: "Seven Years of Imaging the Global Heliosphere with IBEX" by McComas et al, 2017

https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/aa66d8

Data products available at

http://ibex.swri.edu/researchers/publicdata.shtml#dr10

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2. The Plasma Depletion Layer Beyond the Heliopause: Evidence, Implications, and Predictions for Voyager 2 and New Horizons

Iver Cairns and Stephen Fuselier

The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 834, Issue 2, article id. 197, 11 pp. (2017).

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3. Draft Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for Solar Terrestrial Probes #5 Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) Mission Release for Community Comment

Release Date:

April 7, 2017

Comments Due:

May 4, 2017

Identification Number:

NNH17ZDA005J (Draft 2017 IMAP AO)

On April 7, 2017, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (SMD) is releasing a Draft solicitation for community review and comment entitled the Draft 2017 Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe Announcement of Opportunity (IMAP AO). Upon the release date, the full text the draft solicitation will be available at http://nspires.nasaprs.com/.

The Solar Terrestrial Probes Program conducts a Principal Investigator (PI)-led mission that addresses a critical science target that systematically advances understanding of the heliophysics system. IMAP investigations must address a preponderance of the IMAP science objectives that are stated in the Draft 2017 IMAP AO.

Participation is open to all categories of organizations or institutions, U.S. or non-U.S., including educational, industrial, and not-for-profit institutions, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs), University Affiliated Research Centers (UARCs), NASA Centers, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and other Government agencies.

The comment period for the Draft 2017 IMAP AO ends on May 4, 2017.

The issuance of the Draft 2017 Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe AO does not obligate NASA to issue the 2017 Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe AO and solicit proposals. Any costs incurred by prospective investigators in preparing submissions in response to the draft solicitation are incurred completely at the submitter's own risk.

Comments on the draft may be addressed in writing or by e-mail to the IMAP Program Scientist: Dr. Arik Posner, Heliophysics Division, Mail Suite 3M81, Science Mission Directorate, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC 20546-0001, e-mail: Arik.Posner@nasa.gov (subject line to read "IMAP AO"). Responses to all inquiries will be answered by e-mail and also posted weekly at the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) location of the IMAP Program Acquisition website at https://soma.larc.nasa.gov/STP/IMAP; anonymity of persons/institutions who submit questions will be preserved.

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4. JOB OPENING: Applications are invited for two PhD positions (Early Stage Researchers, ESR) at the Politecnico di Torino.

Applications are invited for two PhD positions ("Early Stage Researchers", ESR) at the Politecnico di Torino, funded by the Marie-Sklodowska- Curie Innovative Training Network COMPLETE - Cloud-MicroPhysics-Turbulence-Telemetry: an inter-multidisciplinary training network for enhancing the understanding and modeling of atmospheric clouds within the Horizon 2020 Program of the European Commission. The objectives are the numerical analysis of the transport of energy, water vapor and droplets across the warm cloud/clear air interface, the Lagrangian analysis of water droplets (1 - 100 micrometre) in suspension, the analysis of the data produced by innovative expendable radio-probes released in warm clouds and their comparison with numerical simulations.

Contact persons:

Prof. Daniela Tordella, Department of Applied Science and Technology | Politecnico di Torino 10129 Torino Italy, Tel (+39) 011 090 6812|, daniela.tordella at polito.it; complete-network at polito.it

Dr. Michele Iovieno, Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering | Politecnico di Torino 10129 Torino Italy Tel (+39) 011 090 6853,| michele.iovieno at polito.it; complete-network at polito.it

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5. MEETING: MMS Science Workshop, Boulder, Colorado, June 5-9, 2017

The next MMS Science Workshop, to be held this June in Boulder, Colorado in the beautiful foothills of the Rocky Mountains.

All members of the science community are welcome and encouraged to attend this meeting, which is hosted by the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado.

The MMS Science Workshop will convene June 6-8 including an evening poster session and reception on Wednesday June 7. The main science sessions will be hosted in the Jennie Smoly Caruthers BiotechnologyBuilding (https://jscbb.colorado.edu/) adjacent to LASP with poster sessions to be held in the LASP SPSC facility (http://lasp.colorado.edu).

MMS Instrument Team-only splinter meetings will be held at LASP SPSC on Monday June 5 and Friday June 9 (as needed).

Abstracts will be solicited on MMS observations and numerical simulations with an emphasis on the six major science topics below:

1) Magnetic Reconnection of the Ion and Electron Diffusion Regions

2) Magnetopause

3) Magnetotail

4) Shock Physics

5) Plasma Turbulence

6) Energetic Particles

Registration details and abstract submissions will be announced in AGU/SPA this February with final meeting registration deadlines expected in May.

The Local Scientific Organizing Committee: Narges Ahmadi, Bob Ergun, Stefan Eriksson, Allison Jaynes, Karlheinz Trattner, and Rick Wilder

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6. The GEM 2017 Summer Workshop will be held during June 18-23, 2017 at the Renaissance Portsmouth-Norfolk Waterfront Hotel - Portsmouth, Virginia. Please see more at http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/index.html

The Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM) program is a National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric Sciences initiative to coordinate and focus research on the near-earth portion of geospace from the lower ionosphere to where the earth system interacts with the solar wind. The purpose of the GEM program is to support basic research into the dynamical and structural properties of geospace, leading to the construction of a global geospace general circulation (GGCM) model with predictive capability. The GGCM effort is now being treated as a separate campaign. The strategy for achieving GEM goals is to undertake a series of campaigns, in both theory and observational modes, each focusing on particular aspects of the geospace environment.

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7. MEETING: Space Weather of the Heliosphere: Processes and Forecast IAU Symposium 335 - July 17-21, 2017 - University of Exeter, UK

Space weather is increasingly recognised as an international challenge faced by several communities. The ability to understand, monitor and forecast the space weather of the Earth and the heliosphere is of paramount importance for our high-technology society and for the current rapid developments in knowledge and exploration within our Solar System. The symposium is planned over 5 days from Monday through Friday (including half-day excursion on the Wednesday afternoon). Key Topics of the scientific program are the following: Solar drivers and activity levels; Solar wind and heliosphere; Impact of solar wind, structures and radiation on and within terrestrial and planetary environments (including magnetospheres, ionospheres and atmospheres); Long-term trends and predictions for space weather; Challenges and strategy plans for Earth and the heliosphere; Forecasting models; Space weather monitoring, instrumentation, data and services. The Symposium aims to further knowledge on space weather by linking various aspects of research in solar, heliospheric and planetary physics, and by putting great emphasis on cross-disciplinary developments, merging different communities, learning from interplanetary comparisons and linking to atmospheric and meteorological research for the first time at the international level.

http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/iaus335/

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8. MEETING: GOOD HOPE FOR EARTH SCIENCES: IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA, 27Aug-1Sep, 2017, Cape Town, South Africa

The Local Organizing Committee is thrilled to welcome you to the 2017 Joint IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA Assembly in Cape Town, South Africa. The Joint Assembly, endorsed by the University of Cape Town and the South African Department of Science and Technology, will take place from 27 August to 1 September 2017 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC).

IAGA Lead Sessions

1. SPACE WEATHER FROM SUN TO EARTH: BRINGING DATA AND MODELS TOGETHER (IAGA, IAMAS), Convenor - Sarah Gibson

2. THE REFERENCING OF GEOPHYSICAL DATA PRODUCTS: THE ROLE OF DOIs (IAGA, IAMAS, IAPSO), Convenor - Masahito Nose

3. FRONTIER CHALLENGES IN DATA ASSIMILATION AND ENSEMBLE FORECASTING FOR THE ATMOSPHERE, OCEAN AND SOLID EARTH. (IAGA, IAMAS, IAPSO), Convenor - Weijia Kuang, Craig Bishop

4. SOLAR RELATED VARIABILITY OF THE ATMOSPHERE (IAGA, IAMAS),

Convenor, Christoph Jacobi

Early Bird Deadline: 5 May 2017

Online Registration Closes: 22 August 2017

http://www.iapso-iamas-iaga2017.com/

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9. MEETING: ASTRONUM 2017 - the 12th International Conference on Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows, Saint Malo, France, 26-30 June, 2017.

Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and Maison de la Simulation (CEA/CNRS/UPS/UVSQ), France will organize ASTRONUM-2017. The conference will cover the following topics:

(1) Advanced numerical methods for space, astrophysical and geophysical flows;

(2) Large-scale fluid-based, kinetic, and hybrid simulations;

(3) Turbulence and cosmic ray transport;

(4) Magnetohydrodynamics

(5) Software packages for modeling and analyzing plasma flows /Visualisation with the application to

(1) Physics of the Sun-Heliosphere-Magnetosphere;

(2) Interstellar medium and star formation;

(3) Cosmology and galaxy formation;

(4) Dynamo effect;

(5) Stellar Physics.

The purpose of the conference is to bring together leading experts in applied mathematics, space physics, astrophysics, and geophysics to discuss the application of novel numerical algorithms and petascale parallelization strategies to computationally challenging problems. The conference will be structured around invited, 40-minute keynote and 25-minute regular talks, and a limited number of contributed talks, with the attempt to have no parallel sessions. The conference web site will be established in a few days and provide the information about the conference venue, registration, and means of transportation. E-mail inquiries about the meeting should be directed to Nikolai.Pogorelov at uah.edu and Edouard.Audit at cea.fr.

The conference website is: http://irfu.cea.fr/ASTRONUM2017/

Program Committee: Tahar Amari (CNRS Ecole Polytechnique), Edouard Audit (CEA, Maison de la Simulation, co-chair), Amitava Bhattacharjee, (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Phillip Colella (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Anthony Mezzacappa (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Nikolai Pogorelov (University of Alabama in Huntsville, chair), Kazunari Shibata (Kyoto University), James Stone (Princeton University), Jon Linker (Predictive Science Inc.), and Gary P. Zank (University of Alabama in Huntsville).

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10. The Twist of the Draped Interstellar Magnetic Field Ahead of the Heliopause: A Magnetic Reconnection Driven Rotational Discontinuity, Opher, M., Drake, J., Swisdak, M., Zieger, B., Toth, G. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 839, Issue 1, article id. L12, 6 pp. (2017).

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017ApJ...839L..12O

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11. MEETING: NSF-SHINE Session #13: “Dissipation in the Solar Wind: Kinetic Processes”.

The annual NSF-SHINE (Solar Heliospheric & Interplanetary Environment) Workshop will be held July 24-28 2017 in Saint-Sauveur, Quebec, Canada. Session #13 of the 2017 Workshop is entitled “Dissipation in the Solar Wind: Kinetic Processes”. Researchers and students interested in this topic are invited to submit abstracts for posters to be presented at this session. Deadline for abstract submission is June 23, early registration deadline is May 26. See the Web site (shinecon.org/CurrentMeeting.php) for further information.