Name: 10th Metis Workshop
Start: 2026-02-11T11:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-02-13T16:00:00+01:00
Location: Circolo dei lettori

10th Metis Workshop

from Wednesday, February 11, 2026 (11:00 AM) to Friday, February 13, 2026 (4:00 PM)

Monday, February 9, 2026
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
11:00 AM Splinter meetings
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Sala Gioco
Contributions

11:00 AM Review SOOPs and out-of-ecliptic observations (coord. by D. Spadaro)

11:00 AM Coordinated observations Metis and ASPIICS (coord. by S. Fineschi and A. Zhukov)
1:30 PM Registration
Registration
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Sala Gioco
2:00 PM Welcome and introduction
2:00 PM - 2:20 PM
Room: Sala Gioco
Contributions

2:00 PM Welcome and introduction (OATo Director, ASI, PI Metis)

2:10 PM Prof. Tondello's commemoration
2:20 PM Contributions: Session 1 (Chair: D. Spadaro)
Session 1 (Chair: D. Spadaro)
2:20 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: Sala Gioco
Contributions

2:20 PM Metis status - Roberto Susino (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

2:40 PM MOF evolution and operations towards Metis Data Release 2 - Vincenzo Chiaramida (ALTEC SpA)

3:00 PM Ray-tracing simulations of coronal structures in the context of SolO/Metis observations - Giuseppe Nisticò (Università della Calabria)

3:20 PM An iterative method for determining the solar coronal temperature from Metis coronagraph observations - Alessandro Liberatore (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
3:40 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:40 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: Sala Gioco
4:20 PM Contributions: Session 2 (Chair: M. Romoli)
Session 2 (Chair: M. Romoli)
4:20 PM - 5:50 PM
Room: Sala Gioco
Contributions

4:20 PM Invited: The PUNCH mission: Synergies with Metis - Sarah Gibson (NCAR/HAO)

4:50 PM Analysis of jets observed with Metis coronagraph - Angelos Michailidis (University of Ioannina)

5:10 PM On the relation between Lyman-alpha intenzity and emission measure - Petr Heinzel (Czech Academy of Sciences)

5:30 PM Observations of fast wave trains from SoLO/Metis - Sara Bertone (Università della Calabria)
5:50 PM Discussion

5:50 PM - 6:10 PM
Room: Sala Gioco
Thursday, February 12, 2026
9:30 AM Contributions: Session 3 (Chair: L. Abbo)
Session 3 (Chair: L. Abbo)
9:30 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Sala Gioco
Contributions

9:30 AM Invited: From multi-decadal solar wind modelling to real-time forecasting, and on probing solar wind away from the ecliptic plane - Rui Pinto (IRAP & InforMarty)

10:00 AM Mapping solar wind speed with Metis observations - Silvio Matteo Giordano (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:20 AM Probing solar wind origins and coronal parameters through PSP–SolO quadrature and corotation studies - Pawan Kumar (Physics and Astronomy Department, University of Florence, Florence (FI), Italy)
10:40 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Sala Gioco
11:00 AM Contributions: Session 4 (Chair: V. Andretta)
Session 4 (Chair: V. Andretta)
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Sala Gioco
Contributions

11:00 AM Invited: Mesoscale solar wind density structures created by interchange reconnection in the solar corona - Nicholeen Viall (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

11:30 AM Solar Orbiter coordinated observation of coronal density fluctuations: An overview - Vincenzo Andretta (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11:50 AM Magnetohydrodynamic wave modelling in the solar wind and their observations with Metis - Paolo Pagano (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:10 PM Analysing geoeffective events using Metis data and physics-based empirical models - Preity Sukla Sahani (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Capodimonte)
12:30 PM Discussion

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Sala Gioco

1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Sala Gioco
2:00 PM Contributions: Session 5 (Chair: C. Grimani)
Session 5 (Chair: C. Grimani)
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Sala Gioco
Contributions

2:00 PM Invited: From flares to the corona: Python tools for cross instrument connectivity - Laura Hayes (Astronomy & Astrophysics Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)

2:30 PM Python tools for cosmic-ray and solar particle analysis with Metis and EPD/HET data. Preliminary results on out-of-the-ecliptic observations - Federico Sabbatini (University of Urbino)

2:50 PM Investigating the evolution of erupting prominences uninterruptedly using EUI FSI+Metis mosaics - Yara De Leo (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) e University of Graz)

3:10 PM Study of an erupting prominence combining Solar Orbiter / Metis and ASO-S/LST & SDI observations in the VL and UV Lyman-alpha. - Alessandro Bemporad (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
3:30 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Sala Gioco
4:00 PM Contributions: Session 6 (Chair: P. Heinzel)
Session 6 (Chair: P. Heinzel)
4:00 PM - 4:40 PM
Room: Sala Gioco
Contributions

4:00 PM Thermodynamic evolution of an expanding flux rope as observed by the Metis multi-channel coronagraph - Emanuele Amato (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

4:20 PM Asymmetric eruption and nonradial propagation of a solar filament - Jianchao Xue (Purple Mountain Observatory)
4:40 PM Discussion

4:40 PM - 5:10 PM
Room: Sala Gioco

8:00 PM Social dinner
Social dinner
8:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Friday, February 13, 2026
9:30 AM Contributions: Session 7 (Chair: R. Susino)
Session 7 (Chair: R. Susino)
9:30 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Sala Gioco
Contributions

9:30 AM Invited: Observing the solar corona by the ASPIICS coronagraph aboard the Proba-3 formation-flying mission - Andrei Zhukov

10:00 AM First Metis-ASPIICS coordinated observations - Silvano Fineschi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:20 AM Detection of downflows with Metis and ASPIICS observations - Lucia Abbo (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
10:40 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Sala Gioco
11:00 AM Contributions: Session 8 (Chair: V. Da Deppo)
Session 8 (Chair: V. Da Deppo)
11:00 AM - 12:20 PM
Room: Sala Gioco
Contributions

11:00 AM Coronal polarised brightness measured by Solar Orbiter/Metis within solar cycle 25 - Marco Romoli (Università di Firenze)

11:20 AM Narrowband observations with the PROBA-3/ASPIICS coronagraph - Laurent Dolla (Royal Observatory of Belgium)

11:40 AM Diffraction in ASPIICS: observations and modeling - Sergei Shestov (Royal Observatory of Belgium)

12:00 PM Preliminary characterization of the Metis ultraviolet point spread function - Chiara Casini (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
12:20 PM Discussion

12:20 PM - 12:50 PM
Room: Sala Gioco

12:50 PM Final remarks and greetings

12:50 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Sala Gioco

2:30 PM Splinter meetings: Optional session on Metis calibration (coord. by S. Fineschi)
Optional session on Metis calibration (coord. by S. Fineschi)
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Sala Gioco

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