Critical Science Plan for the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST)
Abstract
The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) will revolutionize our ability to measure, understand and model the basic physical processes that control the structure and dynamics of the Sun and its atmosphere. The first-light DKIST images, released publicly on 29 January 2020, only hint at the extraordinary capabilities which will accompany full commissioning of the five facility instruments. With this Critical Science Plan (CSP) we attempt to anticipate some of what those capabilities will enable, providing a snapshot of some of the scientific pursuits that the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope hopes to engage as start-of-operations nears. The work builds on the combined contributions of the DKIST Science Working Group (SWG) and CSP Community members, who generously shared their experiences, plans, knowledge and dreams. Discussion is primarily focused on those issues to which DKIST will uniquely contribute.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2008.08203,
title = {Critical Science Plan for the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST)},
author = {Mark P. Rast and Nazaret Bello González and Luis Bellot Rubio and Wenda Cao and Gianna Cauzzi and Edward DeLuca and Bart De Pontieu and Lyndsay Fletcher and Sarah E. Gibson and Philip G. Judge and Yukio Katsukawa and Maria D. Kazachenko and Elena Khomenko and Enrico Landi and Valentin Martínez Pillet and Gordon J. D. Petrie and Jiong Qiu and Laurel A. Rachmeler and Matthias Rempel and Wolfgang Schmidt and Eamon Scullion and Xudong Sun and Brian T. Welsch and Vincenzo Andretta and Patrick Antolin and Thomas R. Ayres and K. S. Balasubramaniam and Istvan Ballai and Thomas E. Berger and Stephen J. Bradshaw and Mats Carlsson and Roberto Casini and Rebecca Centeno and Steven R. Cranmer and Craig DeForest and Yuanyong Deng and Robertus Erdélyi and Viktor Fedun and Catherine E. Fischer and Sergio J. González Manrique and Michael Hahn and Louise Harra and Vasco M. J. Henriques and Neal E. Hurlburt and Sarah Jaeggli and Shahin Jafarzadeh and Rekha Jain and Stuart M. Jefferies and Peter H. Keys and Adam F. Kowalski and Christoph Kuckein and Jeffrey R. Kuhn and Jiajia Liu and Wei Liu and Dana Longcope and R. T. James McAteer and Scott W. McIntosh and David E. McKenzie and Mari Paz Miralles and Richard J. Morton and Karin Muglach and Chris J. Nelson and Navdeep K. Panesar and Susanna Parenti and Clare E. Parnell and Bala Poduval and Kevin P. Reardon and Jeffrey W. Reep and Thomas A. Schad and Donald Schmit and Rahul Sharma and Hector Socas-Navarro and Abhishek K. Srivastava and Alphonse C. Sterling and Yoshinori Suematsu and Lucas A. Tarr and Sanjiv Tiwari and Alexandra Tritschler and Gary Verth and Angelos Vourlidas and Haimin Wang and Yi-Ming Wang and NSO and DKIST project and DKIST instrument scientists and the DKIST Science Working Group and the DKIST Critical Science Plan Community},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.08203},
year = {2021}
}