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FY 1996 Solar Physics SR&T and Suborbital Program details

Proposals describing 84 investigations (including five Suborbital) were received in the competition for FY 1996 funding from the Solar Physics program. These were rated in a peer review of their scientific merit. The total FY 1996 funding requested was $8.2 M and the funding available for competition was $3.5 M (including $0.6 M in Suborbital). The assignment of ratings was based on requirements set out in the NRA. Selection for funding from among scientifically competitive proposals is typically based on a combination of programmatic, budgetary and operational considerations. The available funding proved sufficient to allow selection of 37 proposals, 35 of which were the highest ranked by peer review. All selected proposals were funded at the levels recommended by the review panels; in only two cases was this level less than requested by the proposer.

The next opportunity to propose for Solar Physics funding will be in response to the 1996 NRA for the Sun-Earth Connections Supporting Research and Technology and Suborbital Program, which was released May 20, 1996. This NRA is now available on the Web at:

A list of the proposals selected for FY 1996 is appended. A full list of the Solar Physics investigations which are being supported in FY 1996 will be posted in the future.

Solar Physics SR&T Program Investigations Selected for Initiation in FY 1996:

Aschwanden/U of MD
        Electron Time-of-Flight Kinematics in Solar Flares

Antiochos/NRL
        Physics of the Solar Corona and Transition Region

Avrett/SAO
        Basic Modeling of the Solar Atmosphere and Spectrum

Bagenal/U of CO
        Evolution and Activity in the Solar Corona: A comparison of
        Coronal and Chromospheric Structures Seen in Soft X-Rays,
        White Light & Emission Lines

Bhatia/GSFC
        Modelling the Effects of Optical Depth on Solar Active Region
        and Flare Diagnostics

Birn/LANL
        Modeling of Three-Dimensional Reconnection Related to
        Coronal Eruption and Ejection Processes

Brosius/Hughes/STX
        Solar Coronal Plasma Properties of Active Regions, Quiet
        Sun Areas, and a Polar Coronal Hole from SERTS EUV Spectra
        and Images

Bruner/L-MPARL
        Solar Coronal Structure Study

Canfield/MT State U
        Magnetic Helicity and the Solar Dynamo

Chutjian/JPL
         Measurement of  Absolute Electron-Ion Collision Cross
        Sections for Solar Plasma Diagnostics

DeLuca/SAO
         Chinks in Solar Dynamo Theory: Turbulent Diffusion,
        Dynamo Waves & Magnetic Helicity

Emslie/U AL-H
        Diagnostics of Mass Motions in Solar Flares

Esser/SAO
        Mapping the Solar Wind from its Source Region into the
        Outer Corona

Fisher, G./UCB
        The Interrelation of Soft and Hard X-ray Emission During
        Solar Flares

Fisher, G./UCB
        Large Scale Currents as a Coronal Heating Source

Gary/MSFC
	Analysis and Properties of Magnetic and Electric Current
	Systems in Solar Active Regions

Hoyt/Hughes/STX
        Additional Work on the Reconstruction of Solar Activity,
       1610 - 1994

Huba/NRL
        Ion-Neutral Dynamics in the Solar Chromosphere:  First
        Ionization Potential Fractionation

Krieger/Rad Sci
        Development of a Focussing Hard X-Ray Telescope:
        Preliminary Design of  a Wolter Type I Hard X-Ray Telescope

Lang/Tufts U
        Radio Studies of the Solar Corona in Support of NASA Missions

Lean/NRL
        Co-Temporal Evolution of Magnetic Variability Structures in
        the Global Corona, Chromosphere and Photosphere

Mariska/NRL
        Solar Flare Looptop Emission

McAllister/Helio Res
        X-Ray Structures in and Around Filament Channels

McConnell/U NH
        The Development of a Solar Flare Hard X-Ray/Gamma-Ray
        Polarimeter

Miller/U AL-H
        Electron Acceleration in Impulsive Solar Flares

Ryan/U NH
        Demonstration of SONTRAC Principles: A Solar Neutron
        Track Chamber Telescope

Share/NRL
        Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy of Flares in Cycles 21 and 22

Sheeley/NRL
	Magnetic Fields, the Corona, and the Solar Wind

Stein/MI SU
        Solar Convection and Atmospheric Dynamics

Title/L-MPARL
        Michelson Vector Magnetograph for Solar Lite

Thomas, J./U Roch
        Sunspot Dynamics

Vestrand/U NH
        New Technology CdZnTe Detectors for High-Energy Flare
        Spectroscopy: The Room Temperature Semiconductor
        Spectrometer for JAWSAT

Webb/Bos Col
        Study of Disconnection of Magnetic Fields Associated with
        Coronal Mass Ejections

Wolfson/Middlebury Col
        Coronal Mass Ejections and Large-Scale Evolution of the
        Solar Corona

Woo/JPL
        Probing Coronal Structures with Radio Propagation
        Measurements




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Solar Physics Suborbital Program Investigations Selected for
Initiation in FY 1996:


Golub/SAO
        Global Corona Structure Investigation

Hassler/NCAR
        Coronal Helium Imager and Abundance Experiment

Rust/JHU-APL
        Solar Activity Research with the Flare Genesis Telescope

FINDINGS OF THE SOLAR PHYSICS MOWG--December 1994