Magnetic Energy Powers the Corona: How We Can Understand its 3D Storage & Release

Whitepaper #049 in the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033. Main topics: basic research. Additional topics: solar physics.

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, Matthew West, Meriem Alaoui, David Alexander, Joel C. Allred, Spiro Antiochos, William Ashfield, Istvan Ballai, Teresa Barata, Miroslav Barta, Arnold O. Benz, Arkadiusz Berlicki, Stephen J. Bradshaw, Malte Bröse, Juan Camilo Buitrago-Casas, Paul Cassak, Phillip Chamberlin, Haihong Che, Thomas Y. Chen, Bin Chen, Xin Cheng, Steven Christe, Luca Comisso, Joel Dahlin, Georgia de Nolfo, Brian Dennis, Ewan C. M. Dickson, James Drake, Jaroslav Dudík, Elena Dzifcakova, Gordon Emslie, Robertus Erdelyi, Samaiyah Farid, Gregory Fleishman, Ryan French, Peter T. Gallagher, Weiqun Gan, Dale Gary, Fan Guo, Laura A. Hayes, Hugh Hudson, Hantao Ji, Andrew R. Jones, Devojyoti Kansabanik, Tomoko Kawate, Graham S. Kerr, Aggarwal Keshav, Trevor Knuth, Adam Kobelski, Jason Kooi, Anshu Kumari, Jeongwoo Lee, Ying Li, Francesco Longo, Anwesha Maharana, Cristina H. Mandrini, Juan Carlos Martinez Oliveros, James Paul Mason, E. I. Mason, Anna Maria Massone, R. T. James McAteer, Mark McConnell, James McTiernan, J. Grant Mitchell, Atul Mohan, Galina Motorina, Tomasz Mrozek, Sophie Musset, Noriyuki Narukage, Sushree S. Nayak, Nariaki Nitta, Navdeep Panesar, Etienne Pariat, Michele Piana, Silja Pohjolainen, Jiong Qiu, Fabio Reale, Yeimy Rivera, Jean Pierre Rozelot, Ranadeep Sarkar, William Setterberg, Shaheda Begum Shaik, Zubair Shaikh, Rohit Sharma, Ivica Skokic, Morgan Stores, Alexei Struminsky, Janusz Sylwester, Tadayuki Takahashi, Sanjiv Tiwari, David Tsiklauri, Juliana T. Vievering, Alexander Warmuth, Stephen White, and Ivan V. Zimovets

Published onJul 31, 2023

The coronal magnetic field is the prime driver behind many as-yet unsolved mysteries: solar eruptions, coronal heating, and the solar wind, to name a few. We advocate for new and multi-point co-optimized measurements, sensitive to magnetic field and other plasma parameters, spanning from optical to gamma-ray wavelengths, to bring closure to long-standing and fundamental questions.

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