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Predictive Science Inc. @predsci.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

As has been our tradition for over 30 years, Predictive Science is predicting the structure of the corona for the upcoming total solar eclipse on August 12, 2026! eclipse.predsci.com There are several new features in the model this year, keep reading for details!

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Predictive Science Inc. @predsci.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Our POT3D code (buff.ly/QtRzBJc), which is part of SWiG, has been accepted and released as part of the new SPEC CPU 2026 Benchmark suite! More details here: buff.ly/6qmq6lS

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Predictive Science Inc. @predsci.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Lionello et al. developed a method to identify folded field lines in the models, allowing for easy comparison with in-situ strahl statistics. The time-dependent runs agree well with ACE/WIND data, while the steady-state runs contain too little disconnected and folded flux.

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Predictive Science Inc. @predsci.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 PSI's Roberto Lionello led a team (including @mathewjowens.bsky.social) to investigate the magnetic connectivity of the corona/heliosphere system under busy (solar maximum) and quiet (solar minimum) conditions. Details below! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

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Predictive Science Inc. @predsci.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

3/19 @ 11:20: "Understanding How Small-scale Photospheric Magnetic Fields Influence the Global Solar Corona and Solar Wind" (Cooper Downs, C.L. Evans, D. Schmit, J.A. Linker, V.S. Titov) buff.ly/qdoFp49

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Predictive Science Inc. @predsci.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Key capabilities include: generating ensembles across model parameters; post-processing analysis; a user-friendly front-end wrapper script for space weather applications (oftswa.py); and high performance, with HipFT able to run on NVIDIA, Intel, and AMD GPUs!

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Predictive Science Inc. @predsci.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

OFT contains everything you need to acquire and process data from HMI (MagMAP), generate convective flow profiles (ConFlow), and run the flux transport model (HipFT).

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Predictive Science Inc. @predsci.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Want to generate full-Sun magnetic maps with a surface flux transport model? Check out PSI's Open-source Flux Transport (OFT): github.com/predsci/oft Read on for details!

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Predictive Science Inc. @predsci.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 Yuan-Kuen Ko and co-authors (including PSI's Pete Riley and Roberto Lionello) deep dive into two coronal holes to present evidence for a surprisingly thick coronal hole boundary, and its implications for the "slow" solar wind. buff.ly/J7vBHYG

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Predictive Science Inc. @predsci.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

This week, we're showcasing another component of our in-house -- but open source -- suite of modeling tools...the Solar Wind Generator (SWiG)! If you need to rapidly generate WSA-like solar wind outputs, SWiG is a must-have. github.com/predsci/swig

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Predictive Science Inc. @predsci.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Introducing spherical harmonics to analyze the dominant spatial scales of the magnetic field in each run allowed Caroline to quantify the structure and draw concrete, compelling correlations. This work is part of Caroline's PhD thesis work; more of her fascinating is coming soon!

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Predictive Science Inc. @predsci.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

The team also showed that a highly structured surface magnetic field meant that more heat was injected into the corona overall. This is related to the total unsigned flux, as well as changes in flux-tube expansion that attenuates the waves that reflect within coronal loops.

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Predictive Science Inc. @predsci.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

By using a range of resolutions for the input magnetic field, the team found that fine-scale structure in the photosphere led to much more structured heating and connectivity in the middle corona (a region where many physical transitions occur, critical for solar wind formation).

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Predictive Science Inc. @predsci.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

In @caroline-evans, Cooper Downs, and Don Schmit's new #ApJ paper, a series of simulations at increasing resolution uncover the correlation between magnetic complexity and coronal heating. The MAS model acted as a lab to probe difficult-to-observe scales. buff.ly/ls2p29Z

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Predictive Science Inc. @predsci.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

🚨📄 New paper alert! 📄🚨 In their new paper published in Space Weather, PSI's Pete Riley and Michal Ben-Nun find that the chances of an extreme #spaceweather event depends strongly on the strength of the #solar cycle. What does this mean? Read on below! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Predictive Science Inc. @predsci.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Using #MPI to run from 1-1000s of CPU cores, it can also run on 1+ #NVIDIA/#Intel #GPUs for fast local calculations. GitHub repository examples help you get started. For easy PFSS+CS solutions try running our SWiG pkg that uses POT3D. Information on SWiG coming soon - stay tuned!

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Predictive Science Inc. @predsci.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Need to calculate potential field solutions of the solar corona, really fast, for grids up to billions of cells (doi.org/10.3847/1538...), or on nonlinear grids (to refine the #solution in ROIs)? Check out PSI's POT3D code at github.com/predsci/pot3d! #github #modeling #computing

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Predictive Science Inc. @predsci.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Ryder Davidson's poster "MHDweb: An Interactive Visualization Toolkit" showcases PSI's #data #visualization suite whose web-based interface analyzes our Coronal and Heliospheric MAS model solutions and compares the results with in-situ #spacecraft data: buff.ly/2or5UXJ

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Predictive Science Inc. @predsci.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Emily Mason's talk "Statistical Study of Long-Lived Active Regions" details a newly-identified pool of active regions that last for several solar rotations, and which produce roughly 4-7 times more significant flares than their counterparts: buff.ly/99S2e51

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Predictive Science Inc. @predsci.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Jon Linker's talk "Dynamics of the Time-Dependent Solar Corona and Inner Heliosphere" reviews our ground-breaking near-real-time, data-driven eclipse simulation and compares its results with steady-state MHD and PFSS models using the same boundary data: buff.ly/99S2e51

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Predictive Science Inc. @predsci.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Cooper Downs' poster, "The Unique Prospects of High-Latitude Observations:A Modeling Perspective" illustrates the ways in which remote-sensing and in situ instruments far from the ecliptic can improve our theoretical understanding of the Sun-Earth system. buff.ly/z8Ve24Q

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