Cycle2: Accepted Science Programs

Cycle 2 Science Programs

A total of 93 proposals were received in response to the DKIST’s Cycle 2 proposal call during its Operations Commissioning Phase.

The Time Allocation Committee (TAC) accepted a total of 54 proposals for Cycle 2. Proposers should be aware that in order to have a large enough pool of proposals covering various atmospheric conditions, targets, and instrument configurations, the TAC accepted a larger number of proposals than can be expected to be observed (i.e. it cannot be guaranteed that all accepted proposals can be implemented and executed).

The Cycle 2 observing window will last for up to 8 months and a good fraction of this time will be balanced with technical time needed as part of the Operations Commissioning Phase.

The table below summarizes the 54 accepted proposals in order of increasing proposal identifier (PID). Listed are the PID, proposal title and abstract, PI name, PI country code, and Co-Investigators with country code.

The full Cycle 2 Science Program catalogue (including abstracts and Co-Investigator information) can be downloaded here: .

PID	Title	PI	*Country
3	On the Physics of Prominence Cavities	Benjamin Boe	US
6	Helium in the off-limb corona	Vincenzo Andretta	IT
8	Unraveling the Interplay of Alfven Waves, Density Fluctuations, and Turbulence in the Quiet Solar Corona	Michael Hahn	US
9	Poynting Flux and Velocity Inversions in the Photosphere and Chromosphere of the Quiet Sun	Dennis Tilipman	US
10	Mapping the magnetic field of small-scale structures in sunspots penumbrae	Sara Esteban Pozuelo	ES
11	The Origin of Extreme Broadening of the Hydrogen Emission Lines in Solar Flares.	Cole Tamburri	US
12	Probing Flare Reconnection Dynamics from High-Cadence Ribbon Observations	Ryan French	US
13	Contribution to Solar Brightness of small-size magnetic elements	Serena Criscuoli	US
14	Multi-height magnetic observations of a solar active region	Andrei Afanasev	US
16	Inferring vector magnetic fields at the base of the heliosphere using spectro-polarimetric and alfvenic wave propagation techniques	Alin Paraschiv	US
17	Heating and jets in plage atmosphere	Reizaburou -Kitai	JP
18	Evolution of magnetic fields in flares	Lucia Kleint	CH
19	Unraveling the magnetic landscape of solar coronal loops with DKIST	Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta	DE
21	The Observation and Simulation of the Magnetic Field and Plasma Properties in the Off-limb Active Region	Yingjie Zhu	US
22	Thermodynamic and magnetic properties of solar filaments	Carlos José	SE
23	Investigating the degree of magnetic field alignment of chromospheric fibrils	Thomas Schad	US
24	Unraveling plasmoid-mediated vs turbulent-induced magnetic reconnection	Carlos José	SE
26	Strategic Advancement of DKIST Coronal Magnetometry through Data-Model Comparisons and Tomography	Thomas Schad	US
27	Probing Fine-Scale Magnetic and Electric Current Systems in the Low Solar Atmosphere	Xudong Sun	US
28	Zooming in on the Magnetic Fields in the Solar Polar Region	Xudong Sun	US
29	Study of a Delta-Sunspot Polarity Inversion Line from the Deep Photosphere to the Upper Chromosphere	Sarah Jaeggli	US
31	Generation of small-scale turbulence and interaction with magnetic fields in the solar photosphere	Ryohtaroh Ishikawa	JP
34	Constraining chromosphere heating of plage with DKIST observations	Jaime de la Cruz Rodriguez	SE
36	Chromospheric heating through ubiquitous small-scale magnetic reconnection in the quiet-Sun	Jaime de la Cruz Rodriguez	SE
38	DKIST Coronal Cavity Study	Sarah Gibson	US
45	Fine-scale Dynamics of Sunspot Umbrae: The Relationship Between Small-Scale Umbral Brightenings, Short Dynamic Fibrils, and Umbral Flashes	Chris Nelson	NE
51	Small-Scale Chromospheric Dynamics in Quiet Sun Areas and at Boundaries of Coronal Holes	Vasyl Yurchyshyn	US
52	Origin and role of Moving Magnetic Features in the evolution of sunspots	Francesca Zuccarello	IT
57	Resolving the convective collapse with DKIST	Catherine Fischer	US
58	Understanding small-scale flaring dynamics with Cryo-NIRSP Linear Polarization	Ryan French	US
59	Spectropolarimetric diagnostics of off-limb spicules from inversions of the Ca II 8542 Å line	David Kuridze	UK
62	Revealing the picture of coronal Alfvénic waves: exploring a new frequency regime with Cryo-NIRSP	Richard Morton	UK
63	Magnetic Structure and Motions of Prominences	Shuo Wang	US
64	Flare Signatures in the Photosphere and the Chromosphere	Rahul Yadav	US
66	Probing the Photospheric Conditions for Spectral Line Scattering in Sr 4607	Ivan Milic	US
67	Unveiling the Origin of Umbral Fine-Structure	Vasco M. J. Henriques	NO
68	Measuring Strong Coronal Magnetic Fields	Stephen White	US
69	Mini-filaments at a low-latitude coronal hole boundary	Jeongwoo Lee	US
70	Spatio-temporally resolved linear scattering polarization in the Sr I line at 4607 A: a window to the small-scale photospheric magnetism	Franziska Zeuner	CH
71	Observing coronal Alfvén-like waves with Cryo-NIRSP	Momchil Molnar	US
73	Coronal Magnetic Field Observations in Support of PSP and Solar Orbiter	Gordon Petrie	US
75	Penumbral superstrong magnetic fields	Sebastian Castellanos Duran	DE
76	High-Resolution Observations of the Sun’s Polar Fields	Gordon Petrie	US
78	Towards an understanding of sources of heating in plage regions	João M. da Silva Santos	US
80	Connection of magnetic bright points to the plasma supply in filaments	Andrea Diercke	US
81	Investigating Interchange Reconnection as the Origin of Switchbacks	Nathaniel Dylan Kee	US
83	Latitudinal Variation of Faint HeI 1083 nm Coronal Emission	Gabriel Dima	US
84	Exploring the propagation and dissipation of high-frequency waves throughout the lower solar atmosphere	Momchil Molnar	US
85	Unresolved flux removal process at magnetic flux cancellation sites: manifestation of magnetoconvective evolution	Masahito Kubo	JP
86	New and multi-scale measurements of photospheric flows as drivers of coronal energy flux	Sam Van Kooten	US
87	The propagation and dissipation characteristics of slow magneto-acoustic waves in a sunspot umbra	Krishna Prasad Sayamanthula	BE
92	Properties of internetwork magnetic fields at 10^-4 sensitivity	Luis Bellot Rubio	ES
94	Acoustic sources and Local Wavefield	Shah Mohammad Bahauddin	US
95	Height dependence of the photospheric magnetic field as inferred from inversions	Ryan Hofmann	US

The 2-letter country codes are taken from List of country codes by alpha-2, alpha-3 code (ISO 3166) following the ISO 3166 international standard.