On the need for International Solar Terrestrial Program Next (ISTPNext)
Whitepaper #202 in the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033. Main topics: basic research; infrastructure/workforce/other programmatic. Additional topics: system science; research tools and infrastructure.
by Larry Kepko, Angelos Vourlidas, Lauren Blum, Daniel N. Baker, Benoit Lavraud, Vassilis Angelopoulos, George Ho, David Gary Sibeck, Kareem Sorathia, Brian Walsh, Dibyendu Chakrabarty, Michael W. Liemohn, Jerry Goldstein, Seth Claudepierre, Matthieu Berthomier, Ioannis A. Daglis, Geoffrey D. Reeves, Malcolm W. Dunlop, Minna Palmroth, Rumi Nakamura, Alessandro Retino, Maria Federica Marcucci, Nicole Vilmer, Xochitl Blanco-Cano, Matthieu Kretzschmar, Vincent Génot, Hermann J. Opgenoorth, Jonathan Rae, Jean-Claude Worms, Anatoli A. Petrukovich, Ian Mann, Jim Burch, Iver Cairns, Craig DeForest, Eric Donovan, Sarah lj, Jim Klimchuk, John Manuel, Clezio Denardin, Kathryn McWilliams, Yoshifumi Saito, Chi Wang, Colin Waters, Junga Hwang, Judy Karpen, and Antiochos Spiro
Published onJul 31, 2023
On the need for International Solar Terrestrial Program Next (ISTPNext)
The next era of Heliophysics should focus on the Sun-Heliosphere and Geospace as system-of-systems. We recommend a coordinated, deliberate, worldwide scientific effort to answer long-standing questions that will remain unanswered without a unified program.
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