Firefly: The Case for a Holistic Understanding of the Global Structure and Dynamics of the Sun and the Heliosphere

Whitepaper #333 in the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033. Main topics: space weather applications; basic research. Additional topics: space weather research/operations/research loop; space weather research/applications/operations pipeline; […]

by Nour E. Raouafi, J. Todd Hoeksema, Jeffrey S. Newmark, Sarah Gibson, Thomas E. Berger, Lisa A. Upton, Angelos Vourlidas, Donald M. Hassler, James Kinnison, George C. Ho, Glenn M. Mason, Juliana T. Vievering, Nicholeen M. Viall, Adam Szabo, Marta Casti, Anthony W. Case, Susan T. Lepri, Marco Velli, Manolis K. Georgoulis, Sofiane Bourouaine, Vamsee K. Jagarlamudi, John M. Laming, James P. Mason, Louise Harra, Maria Madjarska, Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta, J. Sebastian Castellanos Duran, Andreas Korpi-Lagg, Samuel Badman, Iulia Chifu, David Lario, Simon Wing, Stuart Bale, Evangelos Paouris, Smitha Narayanamurthy, Jonas Sinjan, Pietro Bernasconi, Natalie Krivova, Laurent Gizon, Robert J. Leamon, Sanjay Gosain, Maria Kazachenko, Gordon Petrie, Valentin Martinez Pillet, Kiran Jain, Janet Luhmann, Luca Bertello, Shin Toriumi, Chen Jiang, Ivan Vasko, John W. Harvey, Thomas A. Schad, Immanuel C. Jebaraj, Philip Scherrer, Stefan Hofmeister, Sanjiv Tiwari, Haimin Wang, Markus Roth, Navdeep Panesar, Takashi Sekii, Norbert Magyar, Salvo L. Guglielmino, Susanna Parenti, Benoit Tremblay, Kostas Tziotziou, Giuliana de Toma, Bin Chen, Yukio Katsukawa, Bart De Pontieu, Xin Cheng, Mark Cheung, Alexander Kosovichev, Jie Jiang, Hannah Schunker, Yusuke Kawabata, Takayoshi Oba, Robert Cameron, Shibu K. Mathew, Jaime de la Cruz Rodriguez, Kanya Kusano, Manuela Temmer, Vincenzo Andretta, Wedemeyer Sven, Evangelia Samara, Stephan G. Heinemann, Alexander Warmuth, Shahin Jafarzadeh, Duncan H. Mackay, Andrzej Fludra, Luis Bellot Rubio, David Orozco Suárez, Thomas Y. Chen, Ioannis Kontogiannis, Stephanie Yardley, Astrid Veronig, Jayant Joshi, Daniele Spadaro, Masahito Kubo, Souvik Bose, Nazaret Bello González, Sami Solanki, Carsten Denker, Meetu Verma, Christian Vocks, Juan Manuel Borrero, Nathaniel H. Mathews, Shannon Cury, Clementina Sasso, Guillermo Stenborg, Getachew Tibebu, Karl Battams, Nicolas Wijsen, Alessandro Bruno, Hardi Peter, Mason Emily I., Caplan Ronald M., Juan Martinez-Sykora, Daniel Seaton, Vladimir Airapetian, Lan Jian, William T. Thompson, Leon Ofman, Samantha Wallace, Therese Kucera, Ravindra Desai, Ian Richardson, Joan Burkepile, Steven Cranmer, R. Du Toit Strauss, Mariarita Murabito, De Wijn Alfred, Hong Xie, Matthias Rempel, Shea Hess Webber, Katharine K. Reeves, Neal Hurlburt, Francesco Berrilli, Edward DeLuca, Ricky Egeland, Yuan-Kuen Ko, Nathaniel Dylan Kee, Sushant S. Mahajan, DeForest Craig, Brian E. Wood, Chaston Chris, Giuseppina Nigro, Shaheda Begum Shaik, Milan Gosic, Toshifumi Shimizu, Francesca Zuccarello, Nariaki Nitta, Theodosios Chatzistergos, Yuhong Fan, Jie Zhang, Andre Fehlmann, Erika Palmerio, Ryohtaroh T. Ishikawa, Sanja Danilovic, Moa Skan, Clara Froment, Carlos José Díaz Baso, Zhi-Chao Liang, Thierry Dudok de Wit, Krzysztof Barczynski, Craig Johnston, Etienne Pariat, Lina Hadid, Guillaume Aulanier, Allan Sacha Brun, Kouloumvakos Athanasios, Gianna Cauzzi, Pauline Dredger, Ryan French, Damian Christian, Mark Linton, Jack Ireland, Lucas Tarr, Antoine Strugarek, Vadim Uritsky, Marc DeRosa, Matthieu Kretzschmar, Rafael A. García, Mario J. P. F. G. Monteiro, Savita Mathur, Sylvain N. Breton, Rui F. Pinto, Juan Carlos Martinez Oliveros, Robert Loper, Frédéric Auchère, Tongjiang Wang, Nelson Reginald, Margarida S. Cunha, Luca Teriaca, Georgios Chintzoglou, Benjamin J. Lynch, Jon Linker, Paul Beck, Jackson Shannon, Benjamin Clare, Christopher Krupiarz, Ian D. Whiting, Adam Byerly, Stewart Bushman, David Carrelli, Seth Kijewski, Jacob Englander, Adam Mizes, Jamie Porter, Michael O’Neill, Debarati Chattopadhyay, Joshua Albers, Mark Rast, Ilaria Ermolli, Nigel Tzeng, James F. Hudson, Alessandra Giunta, Éric Buchlin, Véronique Bommier, Nicole Duncan, Miho Janvier, Hanna Strecker, Azaymi Siu, Barbara Perri, Milan Maksimovic, Nicole Vilmer, Sergio Toledo-Redondo, Christoph Kuckein, Tommaso Alberti, Patrick Antolin, Regina Aznar Cuadrado, David Berghmans, Schmieder Brigitte, Radoslav Bucik, Daniele Calchetti, Amir Caspi, Christina Cohen, Thierry Corbard, Hebe Cremades, Alan Cummings, Suman Dhakal, Laurent Dolla, Marie Dominique, Gordon Emslie, Fabiana Ferrente, Adam J. Finley, Lyndsay Fletcher, Federico Fraschetti, Ricardo Gafeira, Samuel Gissot, Dinesha Hegde, Qiang Hu, Maria Elena Innocenti, Meng Jin, Kristopher Klein, Pankaj Kumar, Daniela Lacatus, Paulett Liewer, Jasmina Magdalenic, Sudip Mandal, Cristina H. Mandrini, Marilena Mierla, Mari Paz Miralles, Ron Moore, Jonathan Neville, Tatiana Niembro, Eleni Nikou, Alexander Nindos, Athanasios Papaioannou, S. Paul Rajaguru, Victor Reville, Pierre Rochus, Luciano Rodriguez, Marco Romoli, Sergei Shestov, Chen Shi, Luca Sorriso-Valvo, O. C. St. Cyr, Alphohse Sterling, Michael L. Stevens, Roberto Susino, Marc Swisdak, Barbara J. Thompson, Senthamizh Pavai Valliappan, Francis Verbeeck, Volker Bothmer, Sun Xudong, Andrei Zhukov, Thanassis Katsiyannis, Christopher Owen, Nishu Karna, Jan Janssens, Elena Khomenko, Dale Gary, Riddhi Bandyopadhyay, Rohit Chhiber, Anna Tenerani, Alexis Rouillard, Spiros Patsourakos, Anastasios Anastasiadis, Karine Bocchialini, Kostas Moraitis, Yeimy Rivera, James Drake, Frédéric Baudin, Benjamin Chandran, Maher Dayeh, Kevin Reardon, Iver Cairns, Nina Bizien, David Wexler, Shah Bahauddin, Javier Rodriguez-Pacheco, Sijie Yu, Jeongwoo Lee, Costis Gontikakis, Alexandros Koukras, Olivier Le Contel, Oreste Pezzi, Christian Kintziger, Patrick Boumier, Georgios Balasis, Mausumi Dikpati, W. Dean Pesnell, Yi Chai, Dibyendu Nandy, Arge Charles, Claudio Corti, Lulu Zhao, William H. Matthaeus, Chris R. Gilly, Robert E. Erlandson, Moncef Derouich, Lingling Zhao, Stefaan Poedts, Chen Shi, Luis Vieira, Laxman Adhikari, Juan Camilo Buitrago-Casas, Jia Huang, Christian Moestl, Mingzhe Liu, Jacob Oloketuyi, Bin Zhuang, Tommaso Alberti, Laura Rodríguez-García, Jean Carlos Perez, Zigong Xu, Jason Kooi, Lloyd D. Woodham, Durgesh Tripathi, Peter Young, Cynthia López-Portela, Manuel Enrique Cuesta, and Lynn Wilson

Published onJul 31, 2023

This white paper is on the HMCS Firefly mission concept study. Firefly focuses on the global structure and dynamics of the Sun’s interior, the generation of solar magnetic fields, the deciphering of the solar cycle, the conditions leading to the explosive activity, and the structure and dynamics of the corona as it drives the heliosphere.

Firefly: The Case for a Holistic Understanding of the Global Structure and Dynamics of the Sun and the Heliosphere.pdf