{"id":17,"date":"2025-06-26T19:54:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T19:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teams.issibern.ch\/particleacceleration\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2025-10-29T17:22:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T17:22:19","slug":"first-in-person-meeting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/teams.issibern.ch\/particleacceleration\/first-in-person-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"First In-person Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ISSI #24-613<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In-person Agenda<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">First In-person Meeting: June 10-13, 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Overall Goals of Team:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Identify observational signatures related to potential turbulence and magnetic reconnection in the heliotail through ENAs and interstellar Lyman-alpha through comparison of models and observations<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pin down drivers of turbulence and implications for particle acceleration in the heliosheath<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Set a foundation for data interpretation of upcoming IMAP mission<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Goals of First In-person Meeting:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Facilitate a discussion on possible drivers for the turbulence in the heliotail<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Discuss implications for particle acceleration from magnetic reconnection<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Discuss the initial conditions needed in kinetic modeling to capture the dynamic physics of the heliosheath\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Discuss methods for implementing the resultant distributions from these acceleration mechanisms in ENA and Ly\u03b1 modeling<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Goals of Second In-person Meeting:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Follow-up to the initial meeting<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Discuss the obtained results<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Determine any further avenues of improvement necessary for progress, such as the temporal aspects of the solar wind<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Day 1 (Tuesday, June 10):<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Start time: 9 am<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Overview of ISSI (9 am; 15-30 minutes)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Introductions<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Overview of Proposal Objectives\/Goals (Marc)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Morning: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MHD Models<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Overview of BU MHD Model &#8211; Tail (Merav)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Overview of Moscow MHD Model &#8211; Tail (Vlad)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Afternoon: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Observations<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Overview of kglobal (Jim)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Low-energy ENA capabilities and limitations with IBEX-Lo and IMAP-Lo for observing the heliotail (Andre)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">IMAP Capabilities for All Energies (Eric Z.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Welcome Drinks (Time: 5 pm)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Day 2 (Wednesday, June 11):<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Start time: 9 am<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">High-energy ENA capabilities and limitations with INCA for observing the heliotail (Kostas)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Morning: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Differences Between MHD Models: Instabilities<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Comparison of Overall BU and Moscow Heliospheres (Marc)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Review of Instabilities and Shocks in BU Model (Merav\/Xiaohan)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instabilities in the Moscow Model (Sergey)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Afternoon: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ENAs and Lyman-alpha<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Methods for observing Interstellar Lyman-alpha absorption and feasibility for studying the heliotail (Brian)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Modeling Lyman-alpha in the heliotail as a tool for investigating instabilities (Erick P.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ENA variations due to solar cycle and energy in terms of morphology and time-delays (Justyna)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Global ENA Modeling (Marc)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Discussion Topic: What levels of ENA flux (and variation) would we expect for ENAs resulting from accelerated ions in instabilities vs. GDF and solar cycle variations? What levels of Lyman-alpha variation would we expect? Similar orders of magnitude?\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ISSI Team Dinner at Trem Depot (Time: 8 pm)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Day 3 (Thursday, June 12):<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Start time: 9 am<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Morning: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Turbulence<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Global Effects of Ion Acceleration in the Heliosheath on ENAs (Igor)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Turbulence in Voyager heliosheath and VLISM observations: Comparisons in different regimes (Vladimir)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mechanisms for Particle Acceleration from Turbulence (Vladimir\/Marc)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Discussion Topic: Turbulence drivers &#8211; what type of diagnostics do we want to do and comparison of nose vs. tail<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Afternoon: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reconnection<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Global ENA Modeling (Eric)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reconnection-driven particle acceleration (Jim)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reconnection in the Inner Heliosphere and Heliosheath (Zhiyu)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reconnection effect on ENAs (Marc)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Discussion Topic: How would resultant spectra from different energization mechanisms (turbulence and reconnection) compare to capabilities of desired observables?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Day 4 (Friday, June 13):<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u201cProject Design\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Start time: 9 am<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Methods for Solar Lyman-alpha capabilities and feasibility for studying the heliotail<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0(Eric Q.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Recap Topics\/Discussions<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Discuss implications for particle acceleration from magnetic reconnection<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Discuss the initial conditions needed in kinetic modeling to capture the dynamic physics of the heliosheath\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Discuss methods for implementing the resultant distributions from these acceleration mechanisms in ENA and Ly\u03b1 modeling<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Paper discussion on first-step comparison (preliminary work to goals of project)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISSI #24-613 In-person Agenda First In-person Meeting: June 10-13, 2025 &nbsp; Overall Goals of Team:\u00a0 Identify observational signatures related to potential turbulence and magnetic reconnection in the heliotail through ENAs and interstellar Lyman-alpha through comparison of models and observations Pin down drivers of turbulence and implications for particle acceleration in the heliosheath Set a foundation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teams.issibern.ch\/particleacceleration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teams.issibern.ch\/particleacceleration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teams.issibern.ch\/particleacceleration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teams.issibern.ch\/particleacceleration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teams.issibern.ch\/particleacceleration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/teams.issibern.ch\/particleacceleration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"https:\/\/teams.issibern.ch\/particleacceleration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teams.issibern.ch\/particleacceleration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}