LASP Science Seminars

There are a lot of really cool near-future (and recent) heliophysics missions launching. Similarly, recent and upcoming tools – especially in AI – are improving at a mind-boggling rate. Prospects for collaborations between heliophysics, planetary science, and astrophysics are also improving. The Decadal Surveys for all three of these disciplines have been released over the last few years and each pain an exciting picture along these lines. This talk will touch on all of these topics.

This talk will also bring you into the lab (via great video) to see how one such mission, the SunCET (Sun Coronal Ejection Tracker) CubeSat, is coming along. SunCET is set to be launched later this year with TSIS-2. SunCET ties together a lot of the above as well: coronal dimming and coronal mass ejections are important for space weather in the solar system and for exoplanets; we’re heavily leveraging AI tools to develop the data processing pipeline and merge data with similar observations made elsewhere in the solar system; and SunCET’s exceptionally wide field of view makes it extremely complementary with recent and upcoming solar instruments like PUNCH, PROBA3/ASPIICS, and GOES/CCOR.