Call for abstract: COSPAR 2026 E2.3, "The Life Cycle of Prominences: New Insights from Solar Orbiter and the Multi-messenger Era"

[Manuel Luna Bennasar]

Dear colleagues, 

We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to this COSPAR-26 session, to be held in Florence, Italy, 1–9 August 2026.

This session offers an opportunity to review advances in solar and stellar prominences as natural laboratories to study cool, partially ionized plasma. Using multi-viewpoint observations from Solar Orbiter and ground-based facilities, we will address prominence formation, stability, and the loading and drainage of plasma. We welcome contributions on their formation, structure, and coronal interaction through observations, numerical simulations, seismology, MHD, and radiative transfer modelling.

Details of the session can be found here:

https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1481

Complete information for abstract submission can be found at:

www.cospar-assembly.org

Confirmed solicited speakers: Moira Jardine (University of St Andrews, UK), Reetika Joshi (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA), Sonja Jejčič (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), Valeriia Liakh (University of Oslo, Norway), Qingmin Zhang (Purple Mountain Observatory, China), Veronika Jerčić (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA), Beatrice Annemone Popescu Braileanu (University of Bremen, Germany), Judith Karpen (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA), Andrew Hillier (University of Exeter, UK), David Orozco Suárez (IAA, Spain).

Abstract submission deadline: 13 February 2026

Best regards,

Susanna Parenti (CEA Saclay, Université Paris-Saclay) and Manuel Luna (Universitat de les Illes Balears & Institute of Applied Computing with Community Code (IAC3), Mallorca)