Solar Physics White Papers for Astro2010

The latest Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey, Astro2010, is underway.

To assist the survey committee, the scientific community was asked to submit white papers focusing on how understanding of the scientific frontiers in astronomy may be advanced. White papers identify new science opportunities and compelling science themes, place those in the broader scientific context, and describe the key advances in observation, experiment, and theory necessary to realize those scientific opportunities within the decade 2010-2020. For details see the White Paper FAQs. The AAS has instituted an informational ASTRO2010 resource page as well.

Papers have been submitted to one or more of the five thematic Science Frontier Panels (SFPs). The most directly relevant to solar physics is Thematic Science Area 2: Stars and Stellar Evolution (SSE).

This panel will consider science opportunities and themes surrounding stars and stellar evolution, including the Sun as a star, stellar astrophysics, the structure and evolution of single and multiple stars, compact objects, supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, solar neutrinos, and extreme physics on stellar scales.

Note that only ground-based solar physics projects will be prioritized by the Program Prioritization Panels according to the Statement of Task to the Survey Committee.

As a service to help coordinate the solar physics community response, this web page was made available to those interested in preparing a white paper to register their intent and share information. By February 15 authors had submitted their white papers to the Astro2010 committee.

The full list of submitted white papers includes more than 320 submissions!

Please contact the listed authors if you have questions.

Solar Physics Related White Papers for Astro2010

	Title	Author	Contact e-mail
Final	Dynamos and Magnetic Fields of the Sun and Other Cool Stars	Carolus Schrijver	schryver@lmsal.com
Final	The Solar Chromosphere	Tom Ayres	Thomas.Ayres@colorado.edu
Final	Particle Acceleration	Tim Bastian	tbastian@nrao.edu
Final	Magnetically-Driven Activity in the Solar Corona: A Path to Understanding the Energetics of Astrophysical Plasmas	Sarah Gibson	sgibson@ucar.edu
Final	Stellar Physics of the Solar Interior in the Coming Decade	Frank Hill	hill@noao.edu
Final	Solar & Heliospheric Physics with Low Frequency Radio Arrays	Justin Caspar	jkasper@cfa.harvard.edu
Final	Magnetic Flux Emergence on Sun-like Stars	Yuhong Fan & Matthias Rempel	yfan@ucar.edu
Final	Generation, Evolution and Destruction of Solar Magnetic Fields (Measuring and Modeling the Small-Scale Magnetic Flux of the Sun)	Steve Keil	skeil@nso.edu
Final	Heating of Stellar Winds	Chris Russell & Lan Jian	ctrussel@igpp.ucla.edu
Final	The Solar Dynamo and Magnetic Self Organization	Alexander Kosovichev	sasha@sun.Stanford.EDU
Final	Causes of Solar Activity	Mark Giampapa	giampapa@noao.edu

Please contact jthoeksema@spd.aas.org to add to this list.
Please contact the author to comment on a white paper.