Katharine Reeves

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.

  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.