COMPLETE: a flagship mission for complete understanding of 3D coronal magnetic energy release

Whitepaper #048 in the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033. Main topics: basic research. Additional topics: solar physics; space-based missions/projects.

by Amir Caspi, Daniel Seaton, Roberto Casini, Cooper Downs, Sarah Gibson, Holly Gilbert, Lindsay Glesener, Silvina Guidoni, J. Marcus Hughes, David McKenzie, Joseph Plowman, Katharine Reeves, Pascal Saint-Hilaire, Albert Y. Shih, Graham S. Kerr, Matthew West, Meriem Alaoui, David Alexander, Joel C. Allred, William Ashfield, Stephen J. Bradshaw, Malte Bröse, Juan Camilo Buitrago-Casas, Phillip Chamberlin, Ramesh Chandra, Haihong Che, Thomas Y. Chen, Bin Chen, Xin Cheng, Steven Christe, Joel Dahlin, Georgia de Nolfo, Ewan C. M. Dickson, Jaroslav Dudík, Gordon Emslie, Robertus Erdelyi, Peter T. Gallagher, Weiqun Gan, Dale Gary, Fan Guo, Laura A. Hayes, Hugh Hudson, Hantao Ji, Andrew R. Jones, Aggarwal Keshav, Trevor Knuth, Jason Kooi, Anshu Kumari, Ying Li, Olivier Limousin, Francesco Longo, Anwesha Maharana, Cristina H. Mandrini, Juan Carlos Martinez Oliveros, Anna Maria Massone, R. T. James McAteer, Mark McConnell, James McTiernan, Aline Meuris, J. Grant Mitchell, Galina Motorina, Tomasz Mrozek, Sophie Musset, Noriyuki Narukage, Sushree S. Nayak, Jeffrey Newmark, Nariaki Nitta, Navdeep Panesar, Etienne Pariat, Michele Piana, Jiong Qiu, Nour E. Raouafi, Fabio Reale, Jean Pierre Rozelot, Farid Samaiyah, Ranadeep Sarkar, Shaheda Begum Shaik, Ivica Skokic, Morgan Stores, Alexei Struminsky, Yang Su, Tadayuki Takahashi, Sanjiv Tiwari, David Tsiklauri, Juliana T. Vievering, Alexander Warmuth, Stephen White, Jie Zhang, and Ivan V. Zimovets

Published onJul 31, 2023

COMPLETE is a flagship mission concept that combines comprehensive magnetography with broadband spectroscopic imaging from multiple viewpoints around the Sun to enable tomographic reconstruction of 3D coronal magnetic fields and associated dynamic plasma properties that provide direct diagnostics of energy release.

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