Parallel sessions

The recent launches of Solar Orbiter and Parker Solar Probe are providing new perspectives of the extended solar atmosphere and heliosphere. Our session aims to engage both in-situ and remote sensing communities, as well as contributions from modelling and theory, to discuss first results from these missions. We will focus on processes that heat and accelerate the solar wind in the corona, and subsequently shape its expansion in interplanetary space. These include, but are not limited to, the role of different physical processes in driving the wind, sources of the slow wind and escape mechanisms, ubiquitous magnetic field reversals (switchbacks) and velocity shears, non-thermal particle distributions and differential streaming between plasma species, and possible in situ signatures of coronal heating. Discussions about PSP and Solar Orbiter synergies, strategies and predictions for future observations closer to the Sun are also welcome.

Schedule

Session 1
09:00 Raffaella D'Amicis “The Alfvénic slow wind from the Earth back to the Sun: an overview”
09:20 Christopher Owen “Cruise Phase Science Results using Observations by the Solar Wind Analyser Investigation on Solar Orbiter”
09:34 Tim Horbury “Signatures of coronal hole substructure in the solar wind: combined Solar Orbiter remote sensing and in situ measurements”
09:48 Daniel Verscharen “Using Solar Orbiter and other assets to explore the global structure of the solar wind: mass, momentum, energy, and angular-momentum fluxes
10:02 Ronan Laker “Ripples in the Heliospheric Current Sheet at Solar Minimum: Dependence on Latitude and Transient Outflows”

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Session 2
09:00 Allan Macneil “Exploring Interchange Reconnection Signatures with Parker Solar Probe”
09:20 Christopher Chen “The Near-Sun Streamer Belt Solar Wind: Turbulence and Solar Wind Acceleration”
09:34 Luca Franci “A new regime of ion-scale plasma turbulence in the inner heliosphere: simulations and PSP observations”
09:48 Valentina Zharkova “Pitch-angle distributions off accelerated particles in 3D current sheets with magnetic islands”
10:02 Joel Abraham “Radial evolution of Solar Wind Electron Populations in the inner heliosphere” 
10:16 Adam Finley “How Solar Orbiter and Parker Solar Probe are constraining the rotation-evolution of Sun-like stars”