Speaker
Description
First Name: Donald M.
Last Name: Hassler
Affiliation: Southwest Research Institute
All Authors: Donald M. Hassler (SwRI), Joe Plowman (SwRI), Tania Varesano (SwRI), Momchil Molnar (SwRI), Arpit Shrivastav (SwRI), Frédéric Auchère (IAS), Louise Harra (PMOD), Alessandra Giunta (RAL)
Abstract: High speed solar wind outflows are thought to occur predominantly on network boundaries and at the intersections of network boundaries in coronal holes. Solar Orbiter’s high latitude mission phase, which has begun this past year, provides an excellent opportunity to study these solar wind outflows with SPICE. We will discuss past, current and future observations with SPICE and other instruments to better understand this flow of material through the atmosphere, and whether the energy funneled up through the network goes into either heating local closed loop structures, such as EUV bright points, or accelerating material along open magnetic field regions at the boundaries of the network structure and into the solar wind.