SOLAR WIND 12 Twelfth International Solar Wind Conference 21-26 June 2009 SAINT-MALO, France ABSTRACTS Abstract book editorial staff/Comité éditorial : Michel Moncuquet & Milan Maksimovic LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France Notes: The content of this abstract book was fixed on May 7th, 2009. As usual, (minor) changes in the program may still occur. Abstracts and list of participants inputs have been imported "raw" from the web and are thus given under the sole responsability of their autors. Remarques: Le contenu de ce recueil de résumés a été arrêté au 7 mai 2009. Comme il se doit, des changements (mineurs) peuvent avoir lieu. Les résumés et les coordonnées des participants sont directement issus de la Toile et sont donc donnés sous la seule responsabilité de leurs auteurs. i CONFERENCE OVERVIEW Sunday, June 21 4:00 - 6:00 pm Registrations 6:00 - 8:00 pm Welcome cocktail and setting posters of sessions 1 & 2 Monday, June 22 8:00 am . Registrations 8:45 - 9:00 am Welcome address 9:00 - 9:40 am Opening Talk 9:40 - 10:50 am 1 - CORONAL HEATING AND ACCELERATION OF THE FAST SOLAR WIND Coffee break. and Poster viewing (sessions 1 & 2) 11:50 am - 12:30 pm 1 - CORONAL HEATING AND ACCELERATION OF THE FAST SOLAR WIND Lunch at the Palais du Grand Large 2:00 - 3:00 pm 1 - CORONAL HEATING AND ACCELERATION OF THE FAST SOLAR WIND 3:00 - 3:50 pm 2 - PHYSICAL PROCESSES IN THE SOLAR WIND Coffee break. and Poster viewing (sessions 1 & 2) 4:50 - 6:00 pm 2 - PHYSICAL PROCESSES IN THE SOLAR WIND 6:00 - 7:30 pm Poster viewing (sessions 1 & 2) Tuesday, June 23 8:30 - 10:20 am 2 - PHYSICAL PROCESSES IN THE SOLAR WIND Coffee break. poster viewing (session 1 & 2) and poster removal 11:10 am - 12:30 pm 2 - PHYSICAL PROCESSES IN THE SOLAR WIND Lunch at the Palais du Grand Large 2:00 - 3:00 pm 2 - PHYSICAL PROCESSES IN THE SOLAR WIND 3:00 - 3:50 pm 3 - SLOW WIND STREAMS, CMEs & 3D-STRUCTURE OF THE CORONA AND HELIOSPHERE Coffee break. and setting posters of sessions 3 to 6 4:20 - 6:10 pm 3 - SLOW WIND STREAMS, CMEs & 3D-STRUCTURE OF THE CORONA AND HELIOSPHERE 6:10 - 7:30 pm Poster viewing (sessions 3 to 6) ii CONFERENCE OVERVIEW Wednesday, June 24 8:30 - 10:20 am 3 - SLOW WIND STREAMS, CMEs & 3D-STRUCTURE OF THE CORONA AND HELIOSPHERE Coffee break. Poster viewing (sessions 3 to 6) 11:20 - 11:40 am 3 - SLOW WIND STREAMS, CMEs & 3D-STRUCTURE OF THE CORONA AND HELIOSPHERE 11:40 am - 12:40 pm 1- CORONAL HEATING AND ACCELERATION OF THE FAST SOLAR WIND Lunch at the Palais du Grand Large 3:30- 9:00 pm Excursion to the Mont Saint-Michel Thursday, June 25 8:30 - 10:10 am 4 - SOLAR WIND THROUGH ITS INTERACTION PROCESSES WITH SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS & DUST Coffee break. and Poster viewing (sessions 3 to 6) 11:10 am - 12:20 pm 4 - SOLAR WIND THROUGH ITS INTERACTION PROCESSES WITH SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS & DUST Lunch at the Palais du Grand Large 2:00 - 4:00 pm 5 - ENERGETIC PARTICLES & FRONTIERS OF THE HELIOSPHERE Coffee break. and Poster viewing (sessions 3 to 6) and poster removal 5:00 - 6:10 pm 5 - ENERGETIC PARTICLES & FRONTIERS OF THE HELIOSPHERE 7:30 pm Cocktail at the Palais du Grand Large 8:30 pm Conference dinner at the Palais du Grand Large Friday, June 26 8:30 - 10:10 am 5 - ENERGETIC PARTICLES & FRONTIERS OF THE HELIOSPHERE Coffee break 10:30 am - 12:50 pm 6 - OPEN SESSION (including SOLAR CYCLES STUDIES) 1:00 pm End of the Conference Program & Contents Opening talk 1 Stan Owocki THE SOLAR WIND IN ASTROPHYSICAL CONTEXT (Invited talk) .. 1 Session 1: Coronal Heating and the Acceleration of the Fast Solar Wind [ Monday, June 22, 9:40 am to 3 pm/ lundi 22 Juin, de 9h40 à 15h] 5 Ruth Esser REVIEW OF HEATING RELEVANT CORONAL AND SOLAR WIND OBSERVATIONS AND THEORIES (Invited talk) ............. 5 Jiansen He , Eckart Marsch , Chuanyi Tu , and Lijia Guo UPWARD PROPAGATION OF ALFVéN WAVESLAUNCHED BY SMALL- SCALE MAGNETIC RECONNECTION IN THE CHROMOSPHERE . 6 Gaetano Zimbardo MORE THAN MASS PROPORTIONAL HEATING OF HEAVY IONS BY COLLISIONLESS QUASI-PERPENDICULAR SHOCKS IN SOLAR CORONA . 7 M. Velli SOLAR WIND ACCELERATION: MECHANISMS AND SCALING LAWS 8 A. I. Efimov, L. A. Lukanina, L. N. Samoznaev, I. V. Chashei, M. K. Bird, M. Pätzold, and S. Tellmann QUASI-PERIODIC FLUCTUATIONS DETECTED IN MARS-EXPRESS CORONAL RADIO SOUNDING OBSERVATIONS . 9 S. Servidio, W. H. Matthaeus, P. A. Cassak, M. A. Shay and P. Dmitruk PROPERTIES OF MAGNETIC RECONNECTION IN MHD TURBU- LENCE . 10 D. Aaron Roberts DEMONSTRATIONS THAT THE SOLAR WIND IS NOT ACCELER- ATED BY WAVES OR TURBULENCE . 11 Viviane Pierrard and Yuriy Voitenko VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS OF THE SOLAR WIND PAR- TICLES . 12 iii iv PROGRAM & CONTENTS Session 1 (cont.): [ Wednesday 24, 11:40 am to 12:40 pm ] 13 Eugene N. Parker KINETIC AND HYDRODYNAMIC REPRESENTATIONS OF CORO- NAL EXPANSION AND THE SOLAR WIND (Invited talk) ....... 13 Joseph F. Lemaire HALF A CENTURY OF KINETIC SOLAR WIND MODELS (Invited talk) ..................................... 14 Posters of session 1 [from Sunday 21, 6 pm to Tuesday 23, noon] 16 Lapo Bettarini and Giovanni Lapenta ANALYSIS OF NON-STEADY RECONNECTION PROCESSES FROM THE LOW CORONA TO THE SOLAR WIND: MHD AND KINETIC SIMULATIONS . 16 Benjamin D. G. Chandran PARALLEL AND PERPENDICULAR ENERGY CASCADES IN THE TURBULENT SOLAR CORONA AND SOLAR WIND . 17 Laurent Dolla and Jacques Solomon CORONAL LINE WIDTHS: ALFVEN WAVES,ION-CYCLOTRON WAVES, AND PREFERENTIAL HEATING . 17 Heather A. Elliott , David J. McComas , and William H. Matthaeus SOLAR WIND SPEED AND TEMPERATURE RELATIONSHIP . 18 Leon Golub, Ed DeLuca, Paola Testa, Mark Weber, Joan Schmelz, and Peter Beiersdorfer THE ATMOSPHERIC IMAGING ASSEMBLY (AIA) OF THE SOLAR DYNAMICS OBSERVATORY (SDO) . 18 Philip A. Isenberg, Bernard J. Vasquez, Benjamin D. G. Chandran and Peera Pongkitiwanichakul QUASILINEAR PROTON HEATING AND WAVEGENERATION DRIVEN BY AN UNBALANCED TURBULENT CASCADE . 19 Philippe Lamy , Serge Koutchmy and Antoine Llebaria IMPROVING THE MODEL OF THE FAST SOLAR WIND: THE CORO- NAL ORIGIN . 19 Francesco Malara, Giuseppina Nigro, and Pierluigi Veltri LARGE-SCALE ENERGY BALANCE AND MHD TURBULENCE IN SOLAR CORONAL STRUCTURES. 20 Yana G. Maneva, J. Araneda, and E. Marsch ION DISTRIBUTIONS IN CORONAL HOLES AND FAST SOLAR WIND 20 Leon Ofman THE ACCELERATION OF THE FAST SOLAR WIND . 21 Rui Pinto, Roland Grappin, and Jacques Léorat CORONAL INFLOWS AND GIANT POLAR PLUMES . 21 PROGRAM & CONTENTS v John J. Podesta THEORY OF INCOMPRESSIBLE MHD TURBULENCE WITH CROSS- HELICITY, ANISOTROPY, AND SCALE DEPENDENT ALIGNMENT 22 Lan K. Jian , Christopher T. Russell, Robert J. Strangeway , Jared S. Leisner , Janet G. Luhmann , Tielong Zhang , Antoinette B. Galvin , Fritz M. Neubauer , and Alexandre Wennmacher EVOLUTION OF ION CYCLOTRON WAVES IN THE SOLAR WIND FROM 0.3 TO 1 AU . 23 Edward C. Sittler Jr, Leon Ofman, Vladimir Airapetian, and M. Kramar DEVELOPMENT OF SOLAR WIND MODEL DRIVEN BY EMPIRI- CAL HEAT FLUX AND PRESSURE TERMS . 24 H. Tian, C.-Y. Tu, E. Marsch, and J.-S. He SIGNATURE OF MASS SUPPLY TO QUIET CORONAL LOOPS . 25 Chuanyi Tu, Lijia Guo, Eckart Marsch, and Jiansen He A POSSIBLE SOURCE OF MASS SUPPLY TO SLOW SOLAR WIND: SPATIALLY INTERMITTENT EJECTION OF CORONAL FINE STRUC- TURES . 25 Andrea Verdini, Roland Grappin, and Marco Velli COUPLING PHOTOSPHERE AND CORONA : LINEAR AND TURBU- LENT REGIMES . 27 Andrea Verdini, Marco Velli, William H. Matthaeus, Sean Oughton and Pablo Dmitruk ON A SELF CONSISTENT TURBULENT HEATED SOLAR WIND . 27 Andrea Verdini, Marco Velli, and Eric Buchlin TURBULENCE IN THE SUB-ALFVÉNIC SOLAR WIND DRIVEN BY REFLECTION OF LOW-FREQUENCY ALFVÉN WAVES . 28 A. I. Efimov, L. A. Lukanina, L. N. Samoznaev, V. K. Rudash , I. V. Chashei, M. K. Bird, M. Pätzold, and S. Tellmann CORONAL RADIO SOUNDING EXPERIMENTS WITH MARS-EXPRESS: SCINTILLATION SPECTRA DURING LOW SOLAR ACTIVITY . 28 B. Breech, M. L. Goldstein, A. Roberts, and A. Usmanov FIRST STEPS TOWARDS A TRANSPORT MODEL FOR SUB-ALFVÉNIC FLOWS IN THE CORONA . 29 Lepreti F. , Vecchio A. , Reardon K. P. , and Carbone V. SHOCK-DRIVEN TURBULENCE IN THE SOLAR CHROMOSPHERE 29 Roland Grappin, Rui Pinto, Sébastien Leygnac, and Jacques Léorat SEARCH FOR A SELF-CONSISTENT SOLAR WIND . 30 Markus Battarbee, Timo Laitinen, Rami Vainio, and Neus Agueda ACCELERATION OF ENERGETIC PARTICLES THROUGH SELF-GENERATED WAVES IN A DECELERATING CORONAL SHOCK . 30 Barbara Bigot , Sébastien Galtierand Hélène Politano AN ANISOTROPIC TURBULENT MODEL FOR SOLAR CORONAL HEATING . 31 vi PROGRAM & CONTENTS Philip A. Isenberg, Bernard J. Vasquez, and Steven R. Cranmer MODELING THE PREFERENTIAL ACCELERATION AND HEATING OF CORONAL HOLE O5+ AS MEASURED BY UVCS/SOHO . 31 Hiroaki Ito, Saku Tsuneta, and Daikou Shiota IS THE POLAR REGION DIFFERENT FROM THE QUIET REGON OF THE SUN? . 32 Sergei Markovskii, Bernard Vasquez, and Benjamin Chandran TURBULENT CASCADE OF FAST MAGNETOSONIC WAVES AND PERPENDICULAR PROTON HEATING IN THE SOLAR CORONA . 33 Zoran Mikic, Jon A. Linker, Roberto Lionello, Pete Riley, and Viacheslav Titov COMPARING MODELED EUV AND X-RAY EMISSION FROM THE GLOBAL CORONA WITH OBSERVATIONS . 33 Peera Pongkitiwanichakul, Benjamin D. G. Chandran, Philip A. Isenberg, and Bernard J. Vasquez RESONANT INTERACTIONS BETWEEN PROTONS AND OBLIQUE ALFVEN/ION-CYCLOTRON WAVES . 34 RAPPAZZO A. F. , VELLI M. , DAHLBURG R. , and EINAUDI G. TURBULENCE, ENERGY TRANSFERS AND RECONNECTION IN CORONAL HEATING FIELD LINE TANGLING MODELS . 34 Joseph F. Lemaire ALTERNATIVE GRAPHICAL DISPLAYS OF SOLAR WIND MOD- ELS ..................................... 35 Session 2: Physical Processes in the Solar Wind (Waves, Turbulence, Kinetics ...) [ Monday 22, 3 pm to Tuesday 23, 3 pm / du lundi 22, 15h au mardi 23, 15h] 39 Justin C.