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DeForest, C., Killough, R., Gibson, S., Henry, A., Case, T., Beasley, M., Laurent, G., Colaninno, R., and Waltham, N., 2022 (18 MB PDF), Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH): Science, Status, and Path to Flight

R. Chhiber and A. V. Usmanov and W. H. Matthaeus and F. Pecora, 2025, The effect of turbulence on the angular momentum of the solar wind, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, DOI:10.3847/2041-8213/add325
Dayeh, M. A., M. J. Starkey, H. A. Elliott, R. Attie, C. E. DeForest, R. Bučik, and M. I. Desai, 2025, Forecasting Shock-associated Energetic Particle Intensities in the Inner Heliosphere: A Proof-of-Concept Capability for the PUNCH Mission, Solar Physics (PUNCH Special Issue), DOI:10.1007/s11207-024-02409-5
R. A. Pradata, S. Roy, W. H. Matthaeus, J. Wang, R. Chhiber, F. Pecora, Y. Yang, 2025, Observations of 1/f Noise at Mercury's Solar Wind Using MESSENGER Data, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, DOI:10.3847/2041-8213/adc9b2
R. Chhiber, F. Pecora, A. V. Usmanov, W. H. Matthaeus, M. L. Goldstein, S. Roy, J. Wang, P. Thepthong, D. Ruffolo, 2024, The Alfvén transition zone observed by the Parker Solar Probe in young solar wind – global properties and model comparisons, MNRAS - Letters, DOI:10.1093/mnrasl/slae051
Moraes Filho, V. P., Uritsky, V. M., Thompson, B. J., Gibson, S. E., DeForest, C. E., 2024, SynCOM: An Empirical Model for High-Resolution Simulations of Transient Solar Wind Flows, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 975, Number 2. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad7a77
Moraes Filho, V. P., Uritsky, V. M., Thompson, B. J., Gibson, S. E., DeForest, C. E., 2024, SynCOM: Procedures for Simulating Transient Solar Wind Flows in High Resolution, Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13851650
L. Kepko, N. Viall, and S. Di Matteo, 2024, Periodic Mesoscale Density Structures Comprise a Significant Fraction of the Solar Wind and Are Formed at the Sun, JGR Space Physics
Pecora, Francesco; Yang, Yan; Gibson, Sarah; Viall, Nicholeen M.; Chhiber, Rohit; DeForest, Craig; Matthaeus, William H., 2024, Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence Simulations as a Testing Ground for PUNCH, Solar Physics, DOI:10.1007/s11207-024-02382-z
D. Ruffolo, P. Thepthong, P. Pongkitiwanichakul, S. Roy, F. Pecora, R. Bandyopadhyay, R. Chhiber, A. V. Usmanov, M. Stevens, S. Badman, O. Romeo, J. Wang, J. Goodwill, M. L. Goldstein, and W. H. Matthaeus, 2024, Observed Fluctuation Enhancement and Departure from WKB Theory in Sub-Alfvénic Solar Wind, ApJL, DOI:10.3847/2041-8213/ad9727
Jiaming Wang, Rohit Chhiber, Sohom Roy, Manuel E. Cuesta, Francesco Pecora, Yan Yang, Xiangrong Fu, Hui Li, and William H. Matthaeus, 2024, Anisotropy of Density Fluctuations in the Solar Wind at 1 au, ApJ, DOI:10.3847/1538-4357/ad3e7a
Jiaming Wang, William H. Matthaeus, Rohit Chhiber, Sohom Roy, Rayta A. Pradata, Francesco Pecora, Yan Yang, 2024, 1/f Noise in the Heliosphere: A Target for PUNCH Science, Solar Physics (PUNCH Special Issue), DOI:10.1007/s11207-024-02401-z
S. R. Cranmer, R. Chhiber, C. R. Gilly, I. H. Cairns, R. C. Colaninno, D. J. McComas, N. E. Raouafi, A. V. Usmanov, S. E. Gibson, C. E. DeForest, 2023, The Sun's Alfven Surface: Recent Insights and Prospects for the Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH)
Chhiber, R., Matthaeus, W. H., Usmanov, A. V., Bandyopadhyay, R., and Goldstein, M. L., 2022, An extended and fragmented Alfven zone in the young solar wind
S. Di Matteo, U. Villante, N. M. Viall, L. Kepko, L.; and S. Wallace, 2022, On Differentiating Multiple Types of ULF Magnetospheric Waves in Response to Solar Wind Periodic Density Structures
H. A. Elliott, C. N. Arge, C. J. Henney, M. A. Dayeh, G. Livadiotis, J.-M. Jahn, C. E. DeForest, 2022, Improving multiday solar wind speed forecasts
I. Gershkovich, S. T. Lepri, N. M. Viall, S. Di Matteo, and L. Kepko, 2022, Periodic Solar Wind Structures Observed in Measurements of Elemental and Ionic Composition in situ at L1
H. Morgan and M. B. Korsos, 2022, An improved method for estimating the velocity field of coronal propagating disturbances
Cranmer, S. R., DeForest, C. E., and Gibson, S. E., 2021, Inward Propagating Plasma Parcels in the Solar Corona: Models with Aerodynamic Drag, Ablation, and Snowplow Accretion
S. Di Matteo, N. M. Viall, and L. Kepko, 2021, Power Spectral Density Background Estimate and Signal Detection via the Multitaper Method
H. Morgan, 2021, Daily Variations of Plasma Density in the Solar Streamer Belt
Viall, N.M. et al., 2021, Mesoscale structure in the solar wind
B. J. Jackson, A. Buffington, L. Cota, D. Odstrcil, M. M. Bisi, R. Fallows, M. Tokumaru, 2020, Iterative Tomography: A Key to Providing Time- dependent 3-D Reconstructions of the Inner Heliosphere and the Unification of Space Weather Forecasting Techniques
L. Kepko, N. M. Viall, and K. Wolfinger, 2020, Inherent Length Scales of Periodic Mesoscale Density Structures in the Solar Wind Over Two Solar Cycles
N. M. Viall, and J. E. Borovsky, 2020, Nine Outstanding Questions of Solar Wind Physics
Elliott, H. A., McComas, D. J., et al., 2019, Slowing of the solar wind in the outer heliosphere
Kepko, L. and Viall, N. M, 2019, The source, significance, and magnetospheric impact of periodic density structures within stream interaction regions
Cranmer et al., 2017, Origins of the ambient solar wind: implications for space weather
R. A. Harrison, J. A. Davies, D. Biesecker, and M. Gibbs, 2017, The application of heliospheric imaging to space weather operations: Lessons learned from published studies
DeForest, C. E. et al., 2016, Fading coronal structure and the onset of turbulence in the young solar wind
Tenerani, Anna et al., 2016, Inward motions in the outer solar corona between 7 and 12 R_⊙: evidence for waves or magnetic reconnection jets?
B. J. Thompson and C. A. Young, 2016, Persistance mapping using EUV solar imager data
Yu et al., 2016, A 17 June 2011 polar jet and its presence in the background solar wind
B. J. Jackson, D. Odstrcil, Yu, H.-S., P. P. Hick, A. Buffington, J. C. Mejia-Ambriz, J. Kim, S. Hong, Y. Kim, J. Han, M. Tokumaru, 2015, The UCSD kinematic IPS solar wind boundary and its use in the ENLIL 3-D MHD prediction model
N. Viall and A. Vourlidas, 2015, Periodic density structures and the origin of the slow solar wind
DeForest et al., 2014, Inbound waves in the solar corona: a direct indicator of Alfvén surface location
Jackson et al., 2014, The dynamic character of the polar solar wind
W. Matthaeus, S. Oughton, K. T. Osman, S. Servidio, M. Wan, S. P. Gary, M. A. Shay, F. Valentini, V. Roytershteyn, H. Karimabadi, S. C. Chapman, 2014, Nonlinear and linear timescales near kinetic scales in solar wind turbulence
N.-E. Raouafi and G. Stenborg, 2014, Role of Transients in the Sustainability of Solar Coronal Plumes
Yu et al., 2014, The 3D analysis of Hinode polar jets using images from LASCO C2, the STEREO COR 2 coronagraphs, and the Solar Mass Ejection Imager (SMEI)
H. A. Elliott, J.-M. Jahn, D. J. McComas, 2013, The Kp index and solar wind speed relationship: Insights for improving space weather forecasts
H. A. Elliott, C. J. Henney, D. J. McComas,C. W. Smith, B. J. Vasquez, 2012, Temporal and radial variation of the solar wind temperature-speed relationship
N. Viall, H. E. Spence, A. Vourlidas, and R. Howard, 2010, Examining periodic solar-wind density structures observed in the SECCHI Heliospheric Imagers
D. Odstrcil and V. J. Pizzo, 2009, Numerical Heliospheric Simulations as Assisting Tool for Interpretation of Observations by STEREO Heliospheric Imagers

Dayeh, M. A., M. J. Starkey, H. A. Elliott, R. Attie, C. E. DeForest, R. Bučik, and M. I. Desai, 2025, Forecasting Shock-associated Energetic Particle Intensities in the Inner Heliosphere: A Proof-of-Concept Capability for the PUNCH Mission, Solar Physics (PUNCH Special Issue), DOI:10.1007/s11207-024-02409-5
Pecora, Francesco; Yang, Yan; Gibson, Sarah; Viall, Nicholeen M.; Chhiber, Rohit; DeForest, Craig; Matthaeus, William H., 2024, Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence Simulations as a Testing Ground for PUNCH, Solar Physics, DOI:10.1007/s11207-024-02382-z
Provornikova, E.; Merkin, V. G.; Vourlidas, A.; Malanushenko, A.; Gibson, S. E.; Winter, E.; Arge, N., 2024, MHD modeling of a geoeffective interplanetary CME with the magnetic topology informed by in-situ observations, ApJ, DOI:10.3847/1538-4357/ad83b1
D. Ruffolo, P. Thepthong, P. Pongkitiwanichakul, S. Roy, F. Pecora, R. Bandyopadhyay, R. Chhiber, A. V. Usmanov, M. Stevens, S. Badman, O. Romeo, J. Wang, J. Goodwill, M. L. Goldstein, and W. H. Matthaeus, 2024, Observed Fluctuation Enhancement and Departure from WKB Theory in Sub-Alfvénic Solar Wind, ApJL, DOI:10.3847/2041-8213/ad9727
Jiaming Wang, William H. Matthaeus, Rohit Chhiber, Sohom Roy, Rayta A. Pradata, Francesco Pecora, Yan Yang, 2024, 1/f Noise in the Heliosphere: A Target for PUNCH Science, Solar Physics (PUNCH Special Issue), DOI:10.1007/s11207-024-02401-z
L. Barnard, M. J. Owens, C. J. Scott, M. Lockwood, C. A. de Koning, T. Amerstorfer, J. Hinterreiter, C. Möstl, J. A. Davies, P. Riley, 2022, Quantifying the Uncertainty in CME Kinematics Derived From Geometric Modeling of Heliospheric Imager Data
L. Rodriguez, D. Barnes, S. Hosteaux, J.A. Davies, S.Willems, V. Pant, R.A. Harrison, D. Berghmans, V. Bothmer, J.P. Eastwood, P.T. Gallagher, E.K.J. Kilpua, J. Magdalenic, M.Mierla, C. Möstl, A.P. Rouillard, D. Odstrčil, S. Poedts, 2022, Comparing the Heliospheric Cataloging, Analysis,and Techniques Service (HELCATS) Manual and Automatic Catalogues of Coronal Mass Ejections Using Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory/Heliospheric Imager (STEREO/HI) Data
A. J. Weiss, C. Möstl, E. E. Davies, T. Amerstorfer, M. Bauer, J. Hinterreiter, M. A. Reiss , R. L. Bailey , T. S. Horbury , H. O’Brien , V. Evans , V. Angelini , D. Heyner , I. Richter, H.-U. Auster, W. Magnes, D. Fischer, and W. Baumjohann, 2021, Multi-point analysis of coronal mass ejection flux ropes using combined data from Solar Orbiter, BepiColombo, and Wind, A&A
B. J. Jackson, A. Buffington, L. Cota, D. Odstrcil, M. M. Bisi, R. Fallows, M. Tokumaru, 2020, Iterative Tomography: A Key to Providing Time- dependent 3-D Reconstructions of the Inner Heliosphere and the Unification of Space Weather Forecasting Techniques
DeForest et al., 2017, 3D polarized imaging of coronal mass ejections: chirality of a CME
R. A. Harrison, J. A. Davies, D. Biesecker, and M. Gibbs, 2017, The application of heliospheric imaging to space weather operations: Lessons learned from published studies
M. I. Desai and J. Giacalone, 2016, Large gradual solar energetic particle events, Living Reviews in Solar Physics
M. I. Desai, G. M. Mason, M. A. Dayeh, R. W. Ebert, D. J. McComas, G. Li, C. M. S. Cohen, R. A. Mewaldt, N. A. Schwadron, C. W. Smith, 2016, Spectral Properties of Large Gradual Solar Energetic Particle Events. II. Systematic Q/M Dependence of Heavy Ion Spectral Breaks, Astrophysical Journal
B. J. Thompson and C. A. Young, 2016, Persistance mapping using EUV solar imager data
B. J. Jackson, D. Odstrcil, Yu, H.-S., P. P. Hick, A. Buffington, J. C. Mejia-Ambriz, J. Kim, S. Hong, Y. Kim, J. Han, M. Tokumaru, 2015, The UCSD kinematic IPS solar wind boundary and its use in the ENLIL 3-D MHD prediction model
W. Matthaeus, S. Oughton, K. T. Osman, S. Servidio, M. Wan, S. P. Gary, M. A. Shay, F. Valentini, V. Roytershteyn, H. Karimabadi, S. C. Chapman, 2014, Nonlinear and linear timescales near kinetic scales in solar wind turbulence
J. A. Davies, C. H. Perry, R. M. G. M. Trines, R. A. Harrison, N. Lugaz, C. Moestl, Y. D. Liu, K. Steed, 2013, Establishing a Stereoscopic Technique for Determining the Kinematic Properties of Solar Wind Transients based on a Generalized Self-similarly Expanding Circular Geometry
Deforest et al., 2013, Tracking coronal features from the low corona to Earth: a quantitative analysis of the 2008 December 12 coronal mass ejection
H. A. Elliott, J.-M. Jahn, D. J. McComas, 2013, The Kp index and solar wind speed relationship: Insights for improving space weather forecasts
Howard, T.A., M. M. Bisi, A. Buffington, J. M. Clover, M. P. Cooke, C. J. Eyles, P. P. Hick, P. E. Holladay, B. V. Jackson, J. C. Johnston, S. W. Kahler, T. A. Kuchar, D. R. Mizuno, A. J. Penny, S. D. Price, R. R. Radick, G. M. Simnett, S. J. Tappin, N. R. Waltham and D. F. Webb, 2013, The Solar Mass Ejection Imager and Its Heliospheric Imaging Legacy
D. F. Webb and T. A. Howard, 2012, Coronal Mass Ejections: Observations
de Koning, Curt A. et al., 2011, Polarimetric localization: a new tool for calculating the CME speed and direction of propagation in near-real time
C. A. de Koning, V. J. Pizzo, and D. A. Biesecker, 2009, Geometric localization of CMEs in 3D space using STEREO beacon data: first results
D. Odstrcil and V. J. Pizzo, 2009, Numerical Heliospheric Simulations as Assisting Tool for Interpretation of Observations by STEREO Heliospheric Imagers
Webb, D.F., T. A. Howard, C. D. Fry, T. A. Kuchar, D. R. Mizuno, J. C. Johnston and B. V. Jackson, 2009, Studying Geoeffective ICMEs between the Sun and Earth: Space Weather Implications of SMEI Observations
Gibson & Fan, 2008, Partially ejected flux ropes: implications for interplanetary coronal mass ejections
A. P. Rouillard, J. A. Davies, R. J. Forsyth, A. Rees, C. J. Davis, R. A. Harrison, M. Lockwood, D. Bewsher, S. R. Crothers, C. J. Eyles, M., Hapgood, C. H. Perry, 2008, First imaging of corotating interaction regions using the STEREO spacecraft
D. R. Mizuno, A. Buffington, M. P. Cooke, C. J. Eyles, P. P. Hick, P. E. Holladay, B. V. Jackson, J. C. Johnston, T. A. Kuchar, J. B. Mozer, S. D. Price, R. R. Radick, G. M. Simnett, D. Sinclair, S. J. Tappin, and D. F. Webb, 2005, Very high altitude aurora observations with the Solar Mass Ejection Imager
D. Odstrcil, V. J. Pizzo, and C. N. Arge, 2005, Propagation of the 12 May 1997 interplanetary coronal mass ejection in evolving solar wind structures
V. J. Pizzo and D. A. Biesecker, 2004, Geometric localization of STEREO CMEs
Tappin & Simnett, 1997, The acceleration of CMEs in the outer corona as revealed by LASCO

Dayeh,M. A., M. J. Starkey, H. A. Elliott, R. Attie, C. E. DeForest, R. Bučik, and M. I. Desai, 2025, Forecasting Shock-associated Energetic Particle Intensities in the Inner Heliosphere: A Proof-of-Concept Capability for the PUNCH Mission, Solar Physics (PUNCH Special Issue), DOI:10.1007/s11207-024-02409-5
R. A. Pradata, S. Roy, W. H. Matthaeus, J. Wang, R. Chhiber, F. Pecora, Y. Yang, 2025, Observations of 1/f Noise at Mercury's Solar Wind Using MESSENGER Data, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, DOI:10.3847/2041-8213/adc9b2
R. Chhiber, F. Pecora, A. V. Usmanov, W. H. Matthaeus, M. L. Goldstein, S. Roy, J. Wang, P. Thepthong, D. Ruffolo, 2024, The Alfvén transition zone observed by the Parker Solar Probe in young solar wind – global properties and model comparisons, MNRAS - Letters, DOI:10.1093/mnrasl/slae051
Moraes Filho, V. P., Uritsky, V. M., Thompson, B. J., Gibson, S. E., DeForest, C. E., 2024, SynCOM: An Empirical Model for High-Resolution Simulations of Transient Solar Wind Flows, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 975, Number 2. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad7a77
Moraes Filho, V. P., Uritsky, V. M., Thompson, B. J., Gibson, S. E., DeForest, C. E., 2024, SynCOM: Procedures for Simulating Transient Solar Wind Flows in High Resolution, Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13851650
Pecora, Francesco; Yang, Yan; Gibson, Sarah; Viall, Nicholeen M.; Chhiber, Rohit; DeForest, Craig; Matthaeus, William H., 2024, Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence Simulations as a Testing Ground for PUNCH, Solar Physics, DOI:10.1007/s11207-024-02382-z
Provornikova, E. ; Merkin, V. G. ; Vourlidas, A. ; Malanushenko, A. ; Gibson, S. E. ; Winter, E. ; Arge, N., 2024, MHD modeling of a geoeffective interplanetary CME with the magnetic topology informed by in-situ observations, ApJ, DOI:10.3847/1538-4357/ad83b1
D. Ruffolo, P. Thepthong, P. Pongkitiwanichakul, S. Roy, F. Pecora, R. Bandyopadhyay, R. Chhiber, A. V. Usmanov, M. Stevens, S. Badman, O. Romeo, J. Wang, J. Goodwill, M. L. Goldstein, and W. H. Matthaeus, 2024, Observed Fluctuation Enhancement and Departure from WKB Theory in Sub-Alfvénic Solar Wind, ApJL, DOI:10.3847/2041-8213/ad9727
Jiaming Wang, William H. Matthaeus, Rohit Chhiber, Sohom Roy, Rayta A. Pradata, Francesco Pecora, Yan Yang, 2024, 1/f Noise in the Heliosphere: A Target for PUNCH Science, Solar Physics (PUNCH Special Issue), DOI:10.1007/s11207-024-02401-z
J.M. Hughes, C.E. DeForest, and D.B. Seaton, 2023, Coma Off It: Removing Variable Point Spread Functions from Astronomical Images
L. Barnard, M. J. Owens, C. J. Scott, M. Lockwood, C. A. de Koning, T. Amerstorfer, J. Hinterreiter, C. Möstl, J. A. Davies, P. Riley, 2022, Quantifying the Uncertainty in CME Kinematics Derived From Geometric Modeling of Heliospheric Imager Data
H. A. Elliott, C. N. Arge, C. J. Henney, M. A. Dayeh, G. Livadiotis, J.-M. Jahn, C. E. DeForest, 2022, Improving multiday solar wind speed forecasts
C.E. DeForest, C. Lowder, D.B. Seaton, and M.J. West, 2022, Square Root Compression and Noise Effects in Digitally transformed Images
C.E. DeForest, M.J. West, & D.B. Seaton, 2022, Three-polarizer treatment of linear polarization in coronagraphs and heliospheric imagers
H. Morgan and M. B. Korsos, 2022, An improved method for estimating the velocity field of coronal propagating disturbances
L. Rodriguez, D. Barnes, S. Hosteaux, J.A. Davies, S.Willems, V. Pant, R.A. Harrison, D. Berghmans, V. Bothmer, J.P. Eastwood, P.T. Gallagher, E.K.J. Kilpua, J. Magdalenic, M.Mierla, C. Möstl, A.P. Rouillard, D. Odstrˇcil, S. Poedts, 2022, Comparing the Heliospheric Cataloging, Analysis,and Techniques Service (HELCATS) Manual and Automatic Catalogues of Coronal Mass Ejections Using Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory/Heliospheric Imager (STEREO/HI) Data
S.J. Tappin, C.J. Eyles, J.A. Davies, 2022, A post-conjunction re-evaluation of the calibration and long-term evolution of the STEREO-A Heliospheric Imagers
M. Temmer and V. Bothmer, 2022, Characteristics and evolution of sheath and leading edge structures of interplanetary coronal mass ejections in the inner heliosphere based on Helios and Parker Solar Probe observations
S. Di Matteo, N. M. Viall, and L. Kepko, 2021, Power Spectral Density Background Estimate and Signal Detection via the Multitaper Method
B. Inhester, M. Mierla, S. Shestov, & A. Zukhov, 2021, Error Estimation of Linear Polarization Data from Coronagraphs
H. Morgan, 2021, Daily variations of plasma density in the solar streamer belt
B. J. Jackson, A. Buffington, L. Cota, D. Odstrcil, M. M. Bisi, R. Fallows, M. Tokumaru, 2020, Iterative Tomography: A Key to Providing Time- dependent 3-D Reconstructions of the Inner Heliosphere and the Unification of Space Weather Forecasting Techniques
DeForest et al., 2018, The highly structured outer solar corona
B. J. Thompson and C. A. Young, 2016, Persistance mapping using EUV solar imager data
Cohen, 2015, Quantifying the difference between the flux-tube expansion factor at the source surface and at the Alfvén surface using a global MHD model for the solar wind
Deforest & Howard, 2015, Feasibility of heliospheric imaging from near Earth
B. J. Jackson, D. Odstrcil, Yu, H.-S., P. P. Hick, A. Buffington, J. C. Mejia-Ambriz, J. Kim, S. Hong, Y. Kim, J. Han, M. Tokumaru, 2015, The UCSD kinematic IPS solar wind boundary and its use in the ENLIL 3-D MHD prediction model
J. A. Davies, C. H. Perry, R. M. G. M. Trines, R. A. Harrison, N. Lugaz, C. Moestl, Y. D. Liu, K. Steed, 2013, Establishing a Stereoscopic Technique for Determining the Kinematic Properties of Solar Wind Transients based on a Generalized Self-similarly Expanding Circular Geometry
H. A. Elliott, J.-M. Jahn, D. J. McComas, 2013, The Kp index and solar wind speed relationship: Insights for improving space weather forecasts
H. A. Elliott, C. J. Henney, D. J. McComas, C. W. Smith, B. J. Vasquez, 2012, Temporal and radial variation of the solar wind temperature-speed relationship
de Koning, C. A. and V. J. Pizzo, 2011, Polarimetric localization: A new tool for calculating the CME speed and direction of propagation in near-real time
C. A. de Koning, V. J. Pizzo, and D. A. Biesecker, 2009, Geometric localization of CMEs in 3D space using STEREO beacon data: first results
Odstrcil & Pizzo, 2009, Numerical heliospheric simulations as assisting tool for interpretation of observations by stereo heliospheric imagers
D. R. Mizuno, A. Buffington, M. P. Cooke, C. J. Eyles, P. P. Hick, P. E. Holladay, B. V. Jackson, J. C. Johnston, T. A. Kuchar, J. B. Mozer, S. D. Price, R. R. Radick, G. M. Simnett, D. Sinclair, S. J. Tappin, and D. F. Webb, 2005, Very high altitude aurora observations with the Solar Mass Ejection Imager
D. Odstrcil, V. J. Pizzo, and C. N. Arge, 2005, Propagation of the 12 May 1997 interplanetary coronal mass ejection in evolving solar wind structures
V. J. Pizzo and D. A. Biesecker, 2004, Geometric localization of STEREO CMEs

PUNCH Science Presentations

2025-August-21, C. Deforest (PPT, 571 MB | YouTube video), The PUNCH Mission, Bimonthly PUNCH telecon
2025-August-21, Marcus Hughes (representing the PUNCH SOC) (PPT, 1.5 GB | YouTube video), Play in the PUNCH Sandbox, Bimonthly PUNCH telecon
2025-August-21, C. Lowder, M. Hughes (representing the PUNCH SOC) (PDF, 2 MB | YouTube video), PUNCH Data Scavenger Hunt, Bimonthly PUNCH telecon
2025-August-13, S. Gibson and C. DeForest and M. Hughes and the PUNCH Team (PPT, 900 MB), The PUNCH Mission: Unifying the Corona and Heliosphere, SWIM meeting, Stowe, Vermont
2025-July-29, S. E. Gibson, C. DeForest and the PUNCH Team (PPT, 1.5 GB), The Sparkling Solar Wind: Our Magnetic Home in Space and the PUNCH Mission, Frasier Meadows, CO
2025-July-17, C. Lowder and PUNCH SOC (PPT, 1.1 GB), PUNCH - Reading Sunlight, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science (NMMNHS)
2025-June-24, S. R. Cranmer (PPT), The Frothy Alfven Surface: What Have We Learned? What Do We Still Need to Know? 2025 SHINE Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina
2025-June-24, S. E. Gibson and C. DeForest and the PUNCH team, J. Burkepile, U. Bak-Steslicka, M. Steslicky (PPT, 690 MB), PUNCH Mission: Unifying the Corona and Heliosphere, ASPIICS Team meeting
2025-June-09, Craig DeForest, Ronnie Killough, Sarah Gibson, William Wells, Antonina Brody, Matthew Beasley, Nick Waltham, Robin Colaninno, Glenn Laurent, Marcus Hughes, Alan Henry, Traci Case, The PUNCH Team (PPT, 670 MB), Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH): Mission Overview and First Light, SPD/AAS meeting Anchorage, Alaska
2025-June-09, S. Gibson, C. DeForest, R. Attie, R. Chhiber, S. Cranmer, C. de Koning, M. Desai, H. Elliott, A. Malanushenko, B. Thompson, N. Viall, D. Webb (PPT, 581 MB), PUNCH Science, SPD/AAS meeting Anchorage, Alaska
2025-June-09, J. M. Hughes and PUNCH SOC (PPT, 370 MB), PUNCH Science Operations Center Status, SPD/AAS meeting Anchorage, Alaska
2025-June-09, C. Lowder, C. DeForest, M. Hughes, S. Kovac, D. Lamb, R. Patel, J. Redfern, D. Seaton, S. Van Kooten, M. West (Keynote, 6 MB), So You've Got PUNCH Data… Now What?, SPD/AAS meeting Anchorage, Alaska
2025-June-09, F. Pecora, G. Nisticò, Y. Yang, J. Wang, S. Gibson, N. Viall, R. Chhiber, C. DeForest, and W. H. Matthaeus (PDF, 4 MB), Obtaining turbulence spectral information from WISPR and PUNCH, 2025 Parker 4 meeting, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, MD
2025-May-05, C. E. DeForest (PPT, 544 MB), The Sun Touches Humanity: Astrophysics of Our Home in Space, Denver Astronomical Society, Denver, CO
2025-May-05, C. E. DeForest (PPT, 174 MB), PUNCH Commissioning Status and First Light, Parker 4 meeting, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD
2025-Apr-10, S. E. Gibson and C. E. DeForest (PPT, 207 MB), NASA's PUNCH Mission: Unifying the Corona and Heliosphere, Solar Orbiter "Eruptive Events & Large-Scale Structure" SWG
2025-Apr-05, C. E. DeForest (PPT, 493 MB), The Sun Touches Humanity: Astrophysics of Our Home In Space, Fiske Planetarium: Astronomy Day 2025, Boulder, CO
2025-Mar-19, C.E. DeForest and the PUNCH Team (PPT, 121 MB), Tracking Space Weather from Sun to Earth with NASA's PUNCH Mission, Space Weather Workshop, Boulder, CO
2025-Mar-18, H. A. Elliott, M. A. Dayeh, R. Attie, M. Starkey, and C. E. DeForest (PDF, 4.6 MB), What Other Quantities Can Be Forecasted Using Solar Wind Speed Forecasts/Tracking & With What Accuracies?, Space Weather Workshop, Boulder, CO
2025-Mar-17, R. Attie, N. Balashov, L. Rusaitis (PPT), Eclipse Chase in The Outskirt of the Polarized Corona, Sonoma State University (Online), CA
2025-Feb-20, C. DeForest and the PUNCH Team (PPT, 479 MB), The Perils of Scientific Imaging, Cal Poly Physics Seminar, San Luis Obispo, CA
2025-Feb-18, C. DeForest, R. Killough, S. Gibson, and the PUNCH Team (PPT, 82 MB), Joint Science with SDO, NASA's HSO, and The PUNCH Mission, SDO "Gathering of the Helio-Hive", Boulder, CO
2025-Feb-14, C. DeForest, R. Killough, S. Gibson, and the PUNCH Team (PPT, 82 MB), Synergies: Vigil L5 and the PUNCH Mission, Royal Astronomical Society "Space weather Science from L5" meeting, UK
2025-Feb-02, C. DeForest and the PUNCH Team (PPT, 880 MB), Imaging Almost Nothing At All, Cal Poly Benitez Forum, San Luis Obispo, CA
2024-Oct-21, C.E. DeForest (PPT, 135 MB), Observing Solar System Dust with the PUNCH mission, Exploring the Zodiacal Dust PSP/SoLO joint meeting, Meudon, France
2024-Oct-07, C. DeForest and the PUNCH Team (PPT, 479 MB), Imaging the Storm-Tossed Winds of Outer Space, Chautauqua Meeting House, Boulder, CO
2024-May, C. DeForest and the PUNCH Team (PPT, 585 MB), Faint Signal Detection and Solar Wind Science: Imaging Almost Nothing At All, 2024 Flight Software Workshop, San Antonio, TX
2024-Apr, Rohit Chhiber (PDF, 6 MB), On the properties of the Alfvén transition zone separating the solar corona and the solar wind, Invited talk at Annual International Astrophysics Conference, Turin, Italy
2023-Dec, Rohit Chhiber (Poster JPG), On the Properties of an Extended and Fragmented Alfven Zone in the Young Solar Wind - Locations, Scales and Flows, AGU Fall meeting
2023-Nov, C. DeForest (PPT, 214 MB), Imaging the Corona and Solar Wind with Open Science Tools and with PUNCH, Eddy Symposium #4
2023-Oct, S. Gibson (PPT, 121 MB, PUNCH, Science Writers Meeting
2023-Feb, S. Gibson (PPT, 156 MB), The PUNCH mission, Parker Solar Probe Scholars meeting
2023-Apr-21, J. Davies (PDF, 3 MB), The NASA PUNCH mission: An update, UK solar instrumentation and facilities forum
2023-Apr-01, C. DeForest (PPT, 28 MB), Polarized Imaging for CME Tracking and 3D Structure, Space Weather Week, Boulder, CO
2023-Mar, S. R. Cranmer (PDF, 43 MB, Princeton Video), Into the Fire: Plasma Physics of the Turbulent Solar Corona, Joint Princeton-CCA Heliophysics Seminar, Flatiron Institute, New York City
2023-Mar, R. Killough, M. Beasley, A. Henry, C. DeForest, J. Redfern, W. Wells, K. Smith, G. Laurent, S. Gibson, R. Colaninno, and the PUNCH Team (PPT, 81 MB), System Trades and Surviving the Evolving LV Market, IEEE Big Sky meeting on smallsats
2023-Mar, N. M. Viall (PPT, 183 MB), The Eddington Lecture: The Grand Challenge Questions of Solar Wind Physics, University of Cambridge Institute of Astronomy and the Royal Astronomical Society
2023-Mar, C. DeForest, D. Seaton, M. Hughes, and C. Lowder (same as below, PPT, 156 MB, YouTube video), Polarimetry and PSFs: Behind the Scenes with PUNCH Data Analysis, HAO Colloquium
2023-Feb, C. DeForest, D. Seaton, M. Hughes, and C. Lowder (PPT 156 MB), Polarimetry and PSFs: Behind the Scenes with PUNCH Data Analysis, GSFC Colloquium
2023-Jan, Daniel B Seaton, and Anna V Malanushenko (PPT, 83 MB), 3D Space Weather Tracking with the In-Development PUNCH Mission, American Meteorological Society meeting, Denver, CO
2023-Jan, Valmir Moraes Filho, Vadim Uritsky, Barbara Thompson and Craig DeForest (PDF, 2 MB), SynCOM: A dynamic model for flow tracking algorithms, AGU 2022 poster presentation
2022-Dec, Gibson, Sarah (link to YouTube video), Looking at the Sun's Wind where it is Young and Weird: An Up-Goer talk on PUNCH and other fun space cars, presented at AGU 2022
2022-Dec, Matthew J West, Sarah E Gibson, James Marcus Hughes, Ritesh Patel, Bryce Walbridge, Chris Lowder, Craig DeForest, Daniel B. Seaton, Anna V. Malanushenko (12 MB PDF), Resolving CME Characteristics with Polarized PUNCH Data, AGU 2022 oral presentation
2022-Dec, R. Killough, C. DeForest, S. Gibson, M. Beasley, A. Henry, T. Case, R. Colaninno, G. Laurent, & the PUNCH Team (100.6 MB PPT), PUNCH: Novel Methods and Mission Status, AGU 2022 oral presentation
2022-Oct, V. Moraes Filho (382 MB PPT), Analysis and Simulations of Transient Plasma Outflows in the Solar Atmosphere, Seminar at Catholic University of America, Washington DC
2022-Oct, C. DeForest and the PUNCH Team (same as below), Unifying the Sun and Heliosphere in 3-D: PUNCH IT!, Center for Geospace Storms, JHU-APL, Laurel MD
2022-Oct, C. DeForest and the PUNCH Team (same as below), PUNCH IT!, Seminar at RALSpace, Didcot, UK
2022-Oct, C. DeForest, R. Killough, and the PUNCH team (466.3 MB PPT), Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere, SSWRF-II, Laurel, MD
2022-Sep, N. M. Viall (3.2 MB PDF), Mesoscale Solar Wind Structures: Their Creation and Magnetospheric Impact , HAO Colloquia
2022-Aug, D. Kolinski, C. DeForest, S. Gibson, C. Morrow, R. Colaninno, G. Laurent, M. Hanson, S. Cranmer, C. De Koning, M. Desai, H. Elliott, A. Malanushenko, B. Thompson, N. Viall, D. Webb, and the PUNCH Team. (114 MB PDF), PUNCH mission summary poster, TESS 2022, Bellevue, WA
2022-Aug, A. Malanushenko; D. Webb; D. Biesecker; M. Bisi; J. Burkepile; J. Davies; C. DeForest; C. De Koning; M. Desai; H. Elliott; S. Gibson; R. Howard; B. Jackson; H. Morgan; D. Odstrcil; V. Pizzo; E. Provornikova; A. Rouillard; D. Seaton; A. Thernisien; B. Thompson; M. West (6 MB PDF), CME modeling and reconstruction techniques: Preparing for the PUNCH mission, TESS 2022, Bellevue, WA
2022-Jun, C.E. DeForest, R. Killough, S. Gibson, A. Henry, T. Case, M. Beasley, R. Colaninno, G. Laurent, N. Waltham, P. Wood, and the PUNCH Team (318.4 MB PPT), Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere: A Constellation to Observe the Inner Heliosphere, Space Telescope Constellations Workshop (AAS)
2022-Jun, V. Moraes, V. Uritsky, B.J. Thompson, C.E. DeForest, SynCOM: A new tool for coronal flow tracking algorithms, 2022 SHINE Meeting, Hawaii
2022-Jun, D. Kolinski, C. DeForest, S. Gibson, C. Morrow, R. Colaninno, G. Laurent, M. Hanson, S. Cranmer, C. De Koning, M. Desai, H. Elliott, A. Malanushenko, B. Thompson, N. Viall, D. Webb, and the PUNCH Team. (114 MB PDF), PUNCH mission summary poster, 2022 SHINE Meeting, Hawaii
2022-Apr, C.E. DeForest, M.J. West, & D.B. Seaton (522 MB PPT), Imaging the Solar Wind and Space Weather in Three Dimensions, NOAA OPPA, Silver Spring, MD
2021-Dec, C. DeForest, S. Gibson, R. Killough, T. Case, M. Beasley, R. Colaninno, G. Laurent, & PUNCH Science Team (4.9 MB PDF), Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere: Mission status, activity, and science planning, AGU Fall Meeting (virtual)
2021-Dec, Gabriela Galarraga, Sarah Bordiuk, Samantha Honan, Nick Vail, Amir Caspi and the STEAM Team (4.7 MB PDF), Student Thermal Energetic Activity Module (STEAM) X-Ray Spectrometer on the PUNCH Small Explorer, AGU Fall Meeting (virtual)
2021-Dec, Sarah Gibson, Craig DeForest, Huw Morgan, Curt De Koning, Yuhong Fan, Anna Malanushenko, Viacheslav Merkin, Elena Provornikova, Barbara Thompson, David Webb (YouTube video), Establishing flux rope chirality using white light polarization data from the PUNCH mission, AGU Fall Meeting (virtual)
2021-Dec, J. Marcus Hughes, Daniel B. Seaton, Matthew J. West, Jillian A. Redfern, Chris Lowder (8.8 MB PDF), Polarimeter to UNify the Corona andHeliosphere (PUNCH) Science OperationsCenter (SOC) Design and Data Products, AGU Fall Meeting (virtual)
2021-Dec, Valmir P. Moraes Filho, Vadim M. Uritsky, Barbara J. Thompson, Craig DeForest (21 MB PDF, YouTube video), SynCOM: Synthetic Corona Outflow Model for the Heliophysics Community, AGU Fall Meeting (virtual)
2021-July-20, NASA Night Sky Network, featuring Dr. Nicholeen Viall (YouTube video), The Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) Mission, NSN Webinar Series
2020-Dec, Caspi, Amir, Albert Y. Shih, Harry P. Warren, Amy R. Winebarger, Thomas N. Woods, Mark Cheung, Craig E. DeForest, James A. Klimchuk, Glenn T. Laurent, James P. Mason, Scott E. Palo, Richard A. Schwartz, Daniel B. Seaton, Marek Stęślicki, Szymon Gburek, Janusz Sylwester, Tomasz Mrozek, Miroslaw Kowaliński, Mark Schattenburg, and the CubIXSS Team (8 MB PDF), The CubeSat Imaging X-ray Solar Spectrometer (CubIXSS), AGU Fall Meeting (virtual)
2020-Dec, Colaninno, Robin and Phil Hess (1.9 MB PDF), Optical Flow Methods for PUNCH Imaging, AGU Fall Meeting (virtual)
2020-Dec, DeForest, C., S. Gibson, R. Killough, R. Colaninno, G. Laurent, N. Waltham, and the PUNCH Team (3.3 MB PDF), Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH): Status and Next Steps, AGU Fall Meeting (virtual)
2020-Dec, Filho, Valmir P. Moraes, Craig DeForest, Barbara J. Thompson, Vadim M. Uritsky (2.8 MB PDF), Velocity Flow Fields Derived from Coronagraph Data, AGU Fall Meeting (virtual)
2020-Dec, Gibson, Sarah E., Craig DeForest, Huw Morgan, Curt A. de Koning, Yuhong Fan, Anna V. Malanushenko, Viacheslav G. Merkin, Elena Provornikova, Barbara J. Thompson, David F. Webb (4.7 MB PDF), Tracking CME substructure evolution through the solar wind, AGU Fall Meeting (virtual)
2020-Dec, O'Connor, Anne, Alvin Angeles, Cassidy Bliss, Owen Ahlers, Amir Caspi, and the STEAM Team (5.1 MB PDF), The Student Thermal Energetic Activity Module (STEAM) X-ray Spectrometer for Solar Flares and Active Regions, AGU Fall Meeting (virtual)
2020-Dec, Viall, Nicholeen M. and Joseph Borovsky (1.2 MB PDF), Using Coronagraphs and Heliospheric Imagers to Answer the Outstanding Questions of Solar Wind Physics, AGU Fall Meeting (virtual)
2020-Feb-03, Gibson and the PUNCH Team (3 MB PDF), Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere, Asia Pacific Solar Physics Meeting
2019-Dec-12, DeForest, Viall, Gibson, Beasley, Colaninno, Killough, Kosmann, Loaurent, McMullin, and the PUNCH Team (2.3 MB PDF), Imaging the corona and solar wind as a single system, AGU Fall Meeting (San Francisco, CA)
2019-Dec-12, DeForest, Gibson, Killough, Kosmann, and the PUNCH Team (1.6 MB PDF), Big science with small satellites: The Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere”, AGU Fall Meeting (San Francisco, CA)
2019-Dec-09, Gibson and the PUNCH Team (1.7 MB PDF), A new view on the middle corona, AGU Fall Meeting (San Francisco, CA)
2019-Nov, Viall, N. (link to LOC video), From sun to solar wind: the perplexing solar corona and the space environment it creates, Library of Congress
2019-Nov-05, DeForest, Capsi, Colaninno, Gibson, Henry, Laurent, Killough, and the PUNCH Team (2.2 MB PDF), Imaging the solar wind in 3D with the PUNCH constellation of small satellites, COSPAR 2019 (Israel)
2019-Oct-19, DeForest, Gibson, Killough, and the PUNCH Team (3 MB PDF), Unifying the Sun & heliosphere in three dimensions, with PUNCH, Solar Orbiter MADAWG meeting (London, UK)
2019-Oct-10, DeForest and the PUNCH Team (9.6 MB PDF), PUNCH, space weather, and you, NOAA/SWPC Seminar, (Boulder, CO)
2017-Dec, DeForest, C. E. et al. (4.5 MB PDF), Red Dragon's Lair, Cardiff
2017-Dec: Viall, N. (7 MB PDF), Combining remote and in situ observations with MHD models to understand the formation of the slow solar wind, AGU

Also check out

AN INTRODUCTION TO PUNCH

Recent video presentations of PUNCH mission, science, and outreach

PRESENTATIONS MADE AT PUNCH MEETINGS

links to presentations are in agendas of summer workshops and winter telecons

Outreach Publications and Presentations

Morrow, C., DeForest, C., Buxner, S., & Gibson, S., 2023, Support for a New and Improved Approach for NASA Mission-Embedded Outreach, Bulletin of the AAS 55(3)

2025-July-17, C. Lowder and PUNCH SOC (PPT, 1.1 GB), PUNCH - Reading Sunlight, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science (NMMNHS)
2023-Dec, C. Morrow & the PUNCH Outreach Team (211 MB PDF, 4 MB PNG image), PUNCH Public Engagement: Enhancing the Personal and Cultural Relevance of NASA Heliophysics with Ancient & Contemporary Eclipses, AGU 2023 poster
2023-Dec, C. Morrow, J. Aubele, J. Aragon (8 MB PDF, 154 MB PPT), Why Our Outreach Program Embedded in a NASA Mission to Study the Sun Has no Target Audiences, AGU 2023 oral presentation
2023-Nov, C. DeForest (214 MB PPT), Imaging the Corona and Solar Wind with Open Science Tools and with PUNCH, Eddy Symposium #4
2023-Oct, Nicki Viall (YouTube video), PUNCH and eclipses, At Annular Eclipse on NASA TV
2023-Oct, S. Gibson (121 MB PPT), PUNCH, Science Writers Meeting
2023-Mar, Nicki Viall (400MB PPT), Our Extraordinary, Ordinary Sun, University of Cambridge Public Talk
2021-Dec, Cherilynn Morrow, Craig DeForest (4 MB PDF, YouTube video), The PUNCH outreach program: A new pathway for NASA mission-embedded outreach, AGU Fall Meeting (virtual)
2021-Aug-09, Cherilynn Morrow (3.1 MB PPT, YouTube video), Update on PUNCH Outreach Program, PUNCH Science Meeting 2
2021-July-20, Nicki Viall (NASA link), Outreach presentation on the PUNCH mission, NASA's Night Sky Network
2021-May-15, Cherilynn Morrow (8.8 MB PPT), Self-Directed Walk-Through of the PUNCH Outreach Plan
2020-Dec-03, Cherilynn Morrow (5.6 MB PDF), Outreach presentation, PUNCH Team meeting

Publications / Presentations

PUNCH-relevant Publications

Descriptive Overview

Ambient Solar Wind

Dynamic Solar Wind

Techniques/Models

PUNCH Science Presentations

Presentation list

AN INTRODUCTION TO PUNCH

PRESENTATIONS MADE AT PUNCH MEETINGS

Outreach Publications and Presentations

Publications

Presentations