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New England Space Science Consortium
Meeting #26
http://nessc.unh.edu/NESSC_Spring_2018_Meeting.html
Friday May 4,
2018, 10 AM – 5 PM
Room 330/332
Memorial Union, University of New Hampshire
Local
Organizers: Nathan Schwadron, Ken Fairchild, Noe Lugaz, Maureen Rodgers, Chuck
Smith, Sonya Smith
The Evolving
Solar Wind During a Decade of Historically Low Solar Activity: Preparing for
Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter
Over more than a
decade, Solar and Heliospheric Scientists have observed behavior in the solar
wind that is unprecedented through the space age. Solar wind densities,
magnetic field strengths and pressures have been exceptionally low, while
galactic cosmic ray fluxes have reached new the highest levels in more than 80
years. Solar activity has also been extremely weak during the mini solar
maximum of cycle 24. Fundamental to Heliophysics is connection between solar
activity, the properties of the solar wind and Heliospheric magnetic field, the
nature and frequency of coronal mass ejections, the properties of solar
energetic particles and cosmic rays. The physical relationships between these
phenomena is a critical area in Heliophysics with wide-reaching implications
for space weather, and for upcoming missions including Parker Solar Probe,
Solar Orbiter, and the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe.
Below is a rough
agenda. However, the format is quite informal and there will be other contributions
from attendees.
Reka Winslow: Predictions for Parker Solar Probe and Solar
Orbiter : ICME Evolution and GCR Modulation in the Innermost Heliosphere
Jon Brower: The Pickup Ion Cutoff Shift in Stream Interaction
Regions and Generally Variable Solar Wind Conditions
And Noé: Expansion of Coronal Mass Ejections in Solar Cycle 24
and Its Consequences
Chuck Smith: Predictions for the coming solar cycle
Fatemeh Rahmanifard: Increased Galactic Cosmic Radiation From Historically Weak Solar
Magnetic Fields
Nathan
Schwadron: Worsening radiation environment
in the solar system
Deep Solar Activity Minimum 2007-2009: Solar Wind Properties and
Major Effects on the Terrestrial
Magnetosphere. Authors: C.J. Farrugia, A. B. Galvin and N. Lugaz
The inner source of pickup ions. Phil Quinn
Contributions
from Group