Energetic Ions: The Elusive Component of Solar Flares

First Team Meeting, 1 - 5 February, 2016

Illustration: comparison of spherical (Highland) cow observation and theory (R Vainio)

Meeting schedule

Monday, 1 February

• Introduction to the Team; planning for the week (Alec MacKinnon)
• Gamma-ray lines: example of a well-observed flare (Paulo Simoes)
• Non-parametric inversion of a set of gamma-ray lines (Federico Benvenuto)
• Introduction to Fermi and the LAT (Melissa Pesce-Rollins)

Tuesday, 2 February

• Search for Doppler-shifted spectrum lines from energetic ion charge-exchange reactions (Hugh Hudson)
• Charge exchange reactions: theory (Luis Fernandez Menchero)
• Solar Energetic Particles (Christina Cohen)
• Theoretical modelling of SEP acceleration and transport (Rami Vainio)

Wednesday, 3 February

• Energetic Neutral Atoms (Christina Cohen)
• A well-observed flare (continued) (Säm Krucker)
• FLUKA calculations of fast ion secondaries and observable radiation (Alec MacKinnon)
• Solar flares observed by Fermi LAT (Melissa Pesce-Rollins)

Thursday, 4 February

• Radio conterparts of some Fermi LAT events (Nicole Vilmer)
• Selection of events and topics for further study

Friday, 5 February

• Team working on specific events and topics