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Katharine Reeves

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Katharine Reeves is an astronomer and solar physicist who works at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA).[1] She is known for her work on high temperature plasmas in the solar corona,[2] and measurement/analysis techniques to probe the physics of magnetic reconnection and thermal energy transport during solar flares; these are aspects of the coronal heating problem that organizes a large part of the field. She has a strong scientific role in multiple NASA and international space missions to observe the Sun: Hinode (Project Scientist for the XRT instrument); IRIS (Institutional PI for SAO); SDO; Parker Solar Probe; and suborbital sounding rockets including the MaGIXS[3] and Hi-C FLARE[4] high-resolution spectral imaging packages.

Reeves has advised multiple graduate students and post-doctoral scholars in the field of solar physics, including Samaiyah Farid, Xie Xiaoyan, Nishu Karna, and Soumya Roy.

Education

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Awards and honors

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In 2016, Reeves was awarded the prestigious Karen Harvey Prize by the American Astronomical Society's Solar Physics Division, in recognition of her significant contributions to the study of the sun in her early career.[6]

Publications

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Notable scientific publications include:

References

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  1. ^ "SPD Harvey Prize Citations". spd.aas.org. Archived from the original on 2016-05-26. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
  2. ^ Reeves, Katharine K.; Golub, Leon (2011). "Atmospheric Imaging Assembly Observations of Hot Flare Plasma". The Astrophysical Journal. 727 (2): L52. Bibcode:2011ApJ...727L..52R. doi:10.1088/2041-8205/727/2/L52. S2CID 121213510.
  3. ^ Savage, Sabrina L.; et al. (2023). "The First Flight of the Marshall Grazing Incidence X-Ray Spectrometer (MaGIXS)". The Astrophysical Journal. 945 (2): 105. arXiv:2212.00665. Bibcode:2023ApJ...945..105S. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/acbb58. S2CID 126230776.
  4. ^ Winebarger, A. R.; De Pontieu, B.; Cheung, C. M. M.; Martinez-Sykora, J.; Hansteen, V. H.; Testa, P.; Golub, L.; Savage, S. L.; Samra, J.; Reeves, K. (2019). "Unfolding Overlappogram Data: Preparing for the COOL-AID instrument on Hi-C FLARE". AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. Bibcode:2019AGUFMSH33A..06W.
  5. ^ "Reeves, Katharine". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
  6. ^ "Kathy Reeves Awarded the 2016 Karen Harvey Prize for Solar Astronomy". www.cfa.harvard.edu/. 2015-12-17. Retrieved 2016-06-18.