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Astronomical SPD Ebook PDF i Schedule Abstracts Author Index ii Schedule Schedule.......................................................................................................................... iii Abstracts ......................................................................................................................... 1 Monday, June 13, 2011, 7:30 AM – Thursday, June 16, 2011, 8:30 AM ................................................ 1 Instrumentation and Techniques ..................................................................................................... 1 Solar Interior.................................................................................................................................... 9 Lower Atmosphere ........................................................................................................................ 17 Upper Atmosphere ........................................................................................................................ 37 BBSO ............................................................................................................................................. 51 ATST .............................................................................................................................................. 53 SDO ............................................................................................................................................... 53 Solar Flares .................................................................................................................................... 66 Coronal Mass Ejections .................................................................................................................. 83 Solar Wind, Energetic Particles & Heliospheric ............................................................................... 92 Monday, June 13, 2011, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM ..................................................................................... 96 Parker Lecture I and Instrumentation and Methods ....................................................................... 96 Monday, June 13, 2011, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM ................................................................................... 99 Solar Interior.................................................................................................................................. 99 Monday, June 13, 2011, 1:40 PM - 3:40 PM ..................................................................................... 102 Lower Atmosphere ...................................................................................................................... 102 Monday, June 13, 2011, 4:00 PM - 4:40 PM ..................................................................................... 106 Special Lecture: The Coming Next-Gen Reusable Suborbital Era: New Capabilities for Solar Research .................................................................................................................................................... 106 Tuesday, June 14, 2011, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM ................................................................................... 107 Hale Prize and Upper Atmosphere I ............................................................................................. 107 Tuesday, June 14, 2011, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM ................................................................................. 109 Big Bear Solar Observatory .......................................................................................................... 109 Wednesday, June 15, 2011, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM ............................................................................. 112 Parker Lecture II and Upper Atmosphere II .................................................................................. 112 Wednesday, June 15, 2011, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM ........................................................................... 114 Advanced Technology Solar Telescope ......................................................................................... 114 Wednesday, June 15, 2011, 1:40 PM - 3:40 PM ................................................................................ 117 Solar Dynamics Observatory ........................................................................................................ 117 Wednesday, June 15, 2011, 4:00 PM - 4:40 PM ................................................................................ 121 iii Harvey Prize Lecture .................................................................................................................... 121 Thursday, June 16, 2011, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM ................................................................................. 122 Parker Lecture III and Solar Flares I .............................................................................................. 122 Thursday, June 16, 2011, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM................................................................................ 125 Solar Flares II ............................................................................................................................... 125 Thursday, June 16, 2011, 1:40 PM - 3:40 PM .................................................................................... 128 CME's .......................................................................................................................................... 128 Thursday, June 16, 2011, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM .................................................................................... 132 Solar Wind, SEPs and Heliosphere ................................................................................................ 132 Author Index ............................................................................................................... 135 iv Abstracts Monday, June 13, 2011, 7:30 AM – Thursday, June 16, 2011, 8:30 AM P15 Instrumentation and Techniques Poster Exhibit Hall 1 - Las Cruces Convention Center P15.01 Solar Hard X-ray Observations with NuSTAR David M. Smith 1, S. Krucker 2, H. S. Hudson 2, G. J. Hurford 2, S. M. White 3, R. A. Mewaldt 4, D. Stern 5, B. W. Grefenstette 4, F. A. Harrison 4 1UC Santa Cruz, 2UC Berkeley, 3Air Force Research Laboratory, 4Caltech, 5JPL. 7:30 AM Monday - 8:30 AM Thursday Exhibit Hall 1 - Las Cruces Convention Center High-sensitivity imaging of coronal hard X-rays allows detection of freshly accelerated nonthermal electrons at the acceleration site. A few such observations have been made with Yohkoh and RHESSI, but a leap in sensitivity could help pin down the time, place, and manner of reconnection. In 2012, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), a NASA Small Explorer for high energy astrophysics that uses grazing-incidence optics to focus X-rays up to 80 keV, will be launched. NuSTAR is capable of solar pointing, and three weeks will be dedicated to solar observing during the baseline two- year mission. NuSTAR will be 200 times more sensitive than RHESSI in the hard X-ray band. This will allow the following new observations, among others: 1) Extrapolation of the micro/nanoflare distribution by two orders of magnitude down in flux; 2) Search for hard X-rays from network nanoflares (soft X-ray bright points) and evaluation of their role in coronal heating; 3) Discovery of hard X-ray bremsstrahlung from the electron beams driving type III radio bursts, and measurement of their electron spectrum; 4) Hard X-ray studies of polar soft X-ray jets and impulsive solar energetic particle events at the edge of coronal holes, and comparison of these events with observations of 3He and other particles in interplanetary space; 5) Study of coronal bremsstrahlung from particles accelerated by coronal mass ejections as they are first launched; 6) Study of particles at the coronal reconnection site when flare footpoints are occulted; and 7) Search for hypothetical axion particles created in the solar core via the hard X-ray signal from their conversion to X-rays in the coronal magnetic field. NuSTAR will also serve as a pathfinder for a future dedicated space mission with enhanced capabilities, such as a satellite version of the FOXSI sounding rocket. P15.02 New Capabilities of the EUNIS Sounding Rocket Instrument Adrian N. Daw 1, J. Brosius 2, E. Criscuolo 3, J. Davila 1, J. P. Haas 1, G. Hilton 4, D. Linard 1, T. Plummer 1, D. Rabin 1, R. Thomas 5, D. Varney 6, T. Wang 2 1NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 2Catholic University of America at NASA-GSFC, 3Computer Science Corporation, 4University of Maryland, 5NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Emeritus), 6Innovim. 7:30 AM Monday - 8:30 AM Thursday Exhibit Hall 1 - Las Cruces Convention Center 1 The upcoming flight of the Extreme Ultraviolet Normal Incidence Spectrograph (EUNIS) sounding rocket instrument, a two-channel imaging spectrograph that observes the solar corona and transition region with high spectral resolution and a rapid cadence made possible by unprecedented sensitivity, will incorporate a new wavelength channel and cooling of the active pixel sensor (APS) arrays. The new 52.4- 63.0 nm channel incorporates a Toroidal Varied Line Space (TVLS) grating coated with B 4C/Ir, providing broad spectral coverage and a wide temperature range of 0.025 to 10 MK. The APS arrays for both the 52-63 nm and 30-37 nm channels will be cooled to -20 C to reduce dark current noise. With the resulting read-noise limited performance, over a dozen new diagnostic line pairs become available in the two wavelength channels. To our knowledge, this
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