Ground Based Solar Physics White Papers for Astro2010

Ground-based solar physics will be included in the 2010 Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey, [http://www.nationalacademies.org/Astro2010 Astro2010].

To assist the committee, the scientific community has been asked to submit [http://www7.nationalacademies.org/bpa/Astro2010_Request_for_Input.html white papers] focusing on how our understanding of the scientific frontiers in astronomy may be advanced. White papers should 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. See also the [http://www7.nationalacademies.org/bpa/Astro2010_White_Paper_FAQ.html White Paper FAQs].

White papers will be 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.

As a service to help coordinate the solar physics community response, this web page is available to those interested in preparing a white paper to register their intent and share information. Authors must submit their white papers between 9 - 15 February, 2009.

Note that the community is encourage to submit fewer papers with more collaborators rather than more papers with fewer authors. Please contact the listed authors and join them if you believe it is appropriate.

Planned White Papers for Astro2010

	Title	Author	Contact e-mail
	Particle Acceleration	Tim Bastian	tbastian@nrao.edu
	Thresholds and Triggers for Magnetically-Driven Activity	Sarah Gibson	sgibson@ucar.edu
[http://wso.stanford.edu/whitepapers/solarchromosphere_whitepaper.pdf Draft]	The Solar Chromosphere	Tom Ayres	Thomas.Ayres@colorado.edu
	Solar Interior	Todd Hoeksema	Todd@sun.stanford.edu
	Solar & Heliospheric Physics with Low Frequency Radio Arrays	Justin Caspar	jkasper@cfa.harvard.edu
	Magnetic Flux Emergence on Sun-like Stars	Yuhong Fan & Matthias Rempel	yfan@ucar.edu
	Generation, Evolution and Destruction of Solar Magnetic Fields (Measuring and Modeling the Small-Scale Magnetic Flux of the Sun)	Steve Keil	skeil@nso.edu
	The Small-Scale Dynamo	Craig DeForest	deforest@boulder.swri.edu
	Heating of Stellar Winds	Chris Russell & Lan Jian	ctrussel@igpp.ucla.edu

Please contact jthoeksema@spd.aas.org to add to this list.
Please contact the author to assist with or comment on a white paper.
Links to drafts can be posted here as well.