Simulations of Tomographic Reconstruction of the 3D Coronal Electron Density with WISPR: First Results

FRAZIN, RICHARD A.; ALBERTO M. VASQUEZ

National Harbord, Maryland

Encuentro; WISPR Team Meeting; 2018

SoloHI/WISPR Science Consortium

The upcoming Parker Solar Probe space mission will carry the WISPR light white coronal imager. PSP/WISPR will observe the solar corona over 24 highly eccentric orbits, covering half solar cycle, starting in August 2018 and through August 2025. We have developed a suite of numerical codes to compute predictive synthetic images of the WISPR mission, and also simulate tomographic reconstructions of the 3D distrinution of the electron density of the Corona based on this synthetic data. For the simulations we used a 3D steady-state run of the Alfvén Wave Solar Model (AWSoM) for Carrington Rotation 2081 (solar minimum conditions). In this talk we present the full results of our efforts.