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Major Scientific Challenges and Opportunities in Understanding Magnetic Reconnection and Related Explosive Phenomena in Solar and Heliospheric Plasmas

Authors :
Ji, H.
Karpen, J.
Alt, A.
Antiochos, S.
Baalrud, S.
Bale, S.
Bellan, P. M.
Begelman, M.
Beresnyak, A.
Bhattacharjee, A.
Blackman, E. G.
Brennan, D.
Brown, M.
Buechner, J.
Burch, J.
Cassak, P.
Chen, B.
Chen, L. -J.
Chen, Y.
Chien, A.
Comisso, L.
Craig, D.
Dahlin, J.
Daughton, W.
DeLuca, E.
Dong, C. F.
Dorfman, S.
Drake, J.
Ebrahimi, F.
Egedal, J.
Ergun, R.
Eyink, G.
Fan, Y.
Fiksel, G.
Forest, C.
Fox, W.
Froula, D.
Fujimoto, K.
Gao, L.
Genestreti, K.
Gibson, S.
Goldstein, M.
Guo, F.
Hare, J.
Hesse, M.
Hoshino, M.
Hu, Q.
Huang, Y. -M.
Jara-Almonte, J.
Karimabadi, H.
Klimchuk, J.
Kunz, M.
Kusano, K.
Lazarian, A.
Le, A.
Lebedev, S.
Li, H.
Li, X.
Lin, Y.
Linton, M.
Liu, Y. -H.
Liu, W.
Longcope, D.
Loureiro, N.
Lu, Q. -M.
Ma, Z-W.
Matthaeus, W. H.
Meyerhofer, D.
Mozer, F.
Munsat, T.
Murphy, N. A.
Nilson, P.
Ono, Y.
Opher, M.
Park, H.
Parker, S.
Petropoulou, M.
Phan, T.
Prager, S.
Rempel, M.
Ren, C.
Ren, Y.
Rosner, R.
Roytershteyn, V.
Sarff, J.
Savcheva, A.
Schaffner, D.
Schoeffier, K.
Scime, E.
Shay, M.
Sironi, L.
Sitnov, M.
Stanier, A.
Swisdak, M.
TenBarge, J.
Tharp, T.
Uzdensky, D.
Vaivads, A.
Velli, M.
Vishniac, E.
Wang, H.
Werner, G.
Xiao, C.
Yamada, M.
Yokoyama, T.
Yoo, J.
Zenitani, S.
Zweibel, E.
Publication Year :
2020

Abstract

Magnetic reconnection underlies many explosive phenomena in the heliosphere and in laboratory plasmas. The new research capabilities in theory/simulations, observations, and laboratory experiments provide the opportunity to solve the grand scientific challenges summarized in this whitepaper. Success will require enhanced and sustained investments from relevant funding agencies, increased interagency/international partnerships, and close collaborations of the solar, heliospheric, and laboratory plasma communities. These investments will deliver transformative progress in understanding magnetic reconnection and related explosive phenomena including space weather events.<br />Comment: 4 pages (including a title page), white paper submitted to Helio2050 workshop at https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/helio2050/. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2004.00079

Subjects

Subjects :
Physics - Space Physics
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Physics - Plasma Physics

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.2009.08779
Document Type :
Working Paper

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