Solar Physics White Papers for Astro2010

The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey, Astro2010, is underway. Ground-based solar physics projects will be prioritized in the [http://www.nationalacademies.org/Astro2010 Astro2010] survey.

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 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.

As a service to help coordinate the solar physics community response, this web page has been made available to those interested in preparing a white paper to register their intent and share information. Authors must have submitted their white papers directly to the Astro2010 web site between 9 - 15 February, 2009.

Note that the community is encouraged to submit fewer papers with more collaborators rather than more papers with fewer authors. Please contact the listed authors if you have questions.

Solar Physics Related White Papers for Astro2010

	Title	Author	Contact e-mail
[http://wso.stanford.edu/whitepapers/schrijver_solar_stellar_dynamos_PSF_SSE.pdf Final]	Dynamos and Magnetic Fields of the Sun and Other Cool Stars	Carolus Schrijver	schryver@lmsal.com
[http://wso.stanford.edu/whitepapers/solarchromosphere_whitepaper.pdf Final]	The Solar Chromosphere	Tom Ayres	Thomas.Ayres@colorado.edu
[http://wso.stanford.edu/whitepapers/PartAcc.pdf Draft]	Particle Acceleration	Tim Bastian	tbastian@nrao.edu
[http://wso.stanford.edu/whitepapers/Gibson_magnetic_energetics_SSE_GCT.pdf Final]	Magnetically-Driven Activity in the Solar Corona: A Path to Understanding the Energetics of Astrophysical Plasmas	Sarah Gibson	sgibson@ucar.edu
[http://wso.stanford.edu/whitepapers/Hill_Solar_Interior_SSE.pdf Final]	Stellar Physics of the Solar Interior in the Coming Decade	Frank Hill	hill@noao.edu
[http://wso.stanford.edu/whitepapers/Kasper-solarhelio-lfa.pdf Final]	Solar & Heliospheric Physics with Low Frequency Radio Arrays	Justin Caspar	jkasper@cfa.harvard.edu
[http://wso.stanford.edu/whitepapers/Fan_flux_emergence_SSE.pdf Final]	Magnetic Flux Emergence on Sun-like Stars	Yuhong Fan & Matthias Rempel	yfan@ucar.edu
[http://wso.stanford.edu/whitepapers/keil_small-scale_solar_magnetic_fields_sse_cfp.pdf 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
[http://wso.stanford.edu/whitepapers/Astro2010_Heating_Stellar_Winds.pdf Final]	Heating of Stellar Winds	Chris Russell & Lan Jian	ctrussel@igpp.ucla.edu
[http://wso.stanford.edu/whitepapers/Kosovichev_astro2010_4.pdf Draft]	The Solar Dynamo and Magnetic Self Organization	Alexander Kosovichev	sasha@sun.Stanford.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 most white papers have been posted here as well.