ISTP Science Workshop Splinter Group Meeting:
Interplanetary Medium - Energy Transport, Shocks & Structures
Wednesday, April 8 8:30-12:30 - Building 26, Room
212
This session is open to informal discussions of any phenomena within the
interplanetary medium. Please come with a provocative question and/or a
couple of view graphs to express a point. This is not a mini-AGU!
We hope to lead informal discussions! If you wish to contribute please
send a note to John or Davin
to let us know.
Consider commenting about these basic questions:
1. Can the phenomenon be related to the solar source
2. How does the phenomenon impact the state of the magnetosphere.
Some Examples of Provocative Questions:
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Is there a steady source for the "slow" solar wind? Or is the slow wind
just an amalgam of many small transients?
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Only a fraction (1/3?) of ejecta seen at 1 AU have a flux rope structure.
What fraction of CME's have flux rope structure near the sun? Is
it higher? Do flux ropes evolve to non-flux ropes as they move out?
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How is magnetic flux supplied from CME's removed from the interplanetary
medium?
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What do theorists need to know from experimentalists?
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What do experimentalists need to know from theorists?
Preliminary Agenda (this will not be strictly adhered
to)
8:30
Solar origins:
9:30
Energy transport:
How is energy carried away from the sun and delivered to the
magnetosphere?
Acceleration of energetic particles.
Structures that deliver strong magnetic fields which enhance
geomagnetic activity. (compression regions, ejecta)
Structures which deliver big ram pressure pulses.
10:30
Structures:
macro - CME's magnetic clouds, heliospheric current sheet,
high speed/low
speed stream structure.
micro - RD's, TD's, magnetic holes, Alfvenic turbulence:
11:30
Shocks:
Multi-spacecraft observations.
Energetic particles from shocks.
Current list of those who wish to participate:
Janet Luhman
Len Burlaga
Adam Szabo
Charlie Farrugia
Ron Lepping
Dave Webb
Chris St. Cyr
Brian Anderson - SOHO/NEAR correlations
Ian Richardson
Kieth Ogilvie - Solar Wind Strahl electrons
For more information about this splinter meeting, please contact one
of the following:
John Steinberg jts@space.mit.edu,
(617) 253-2354
Davin Larson davin@ssl.berkeley.edu,
(510) 642-7558
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