Critical Science Plan for the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST)
Creators: name: Rast, Mark P.
name: González, Nazaret Bello
name: Rubio, Luis Bellot
name: Cao, Wenda
name: Cauzzi, Gianna
name: DeLuca, Edward
name: De Pontieu, Bart
name: Fletcher, Lyndsay
name: Gibson, Sarah E.
name: Judge, Philip G.
name: Katsukawa, Yukio
name: Kazachenko, Maria D.
name: Khomenko, Elena
name: Landi, Enrico
name: Pillet, Valentin Martínez
name: Petrie, Gordon J. D.
name: Qiu, Jiong
name: Rachmeler, Laurel A.
name: Rempel, Matthias
name: Schmidt, Wolfgang
name: Scullion, Eamon
name: Sun, Xudong
name: Welsch, Brian T.
name: Andretta, Vincenzo
name: Antolin, Patrick
name: Ayres, Thomas R.
name: Balasubramaniam, K. S.
name: Ballai, Istvan
name: Berger, Thomas E.
name: Bradshaw, Stephen J.
name: Carlsson, Mats
name: Casini, Roberto
name: Centeno, Rebecca
name: Cranmer, Steven R.
name: DeForest, Craig
name: Deng, Yuanyong
name: Erdélyi, Robertus
name: Fedun, Viktor
name: Fischer, Catherine E.
name: Manrique, Sergio J. González
name: Hahn, Michael
name: Harra, Louise
name: Henriques, Vasco M. J.
name: Hurlburt, Neal E.
name: Jaeggli, Sarah
name: Jafarzadeh, Shahin
name: Jain, Rekha
name: Jefferies, Stuart M.
name: Keys, Peter H.
name: Kowalski, Adam F.
name: Kuckein, Christoph
name: Kuhn, Jeffrey R.
name: Liu, Jiajia
name: Liu, Wei
name: Longcope, Dana
name: McAteer, R. T. James
name: McIntosh, Scott W.
name: McKenzie, David E.
name: Miralles, Mari Paz
name: Morton, Richard J.
name: Muglach, Karin
name: Nelson, Chris J.
name: Panesar, Navdeep K.
name: Parenti, Susanna
name: Parnell, Clare E.
name: Poduval, Bala
name: Reardon, Kevin P.
name: Reep, Jeffrey W.
name: Schad, Thomas A.
name: Schmit, Donald
name: Sharma, Rahul
name: Socas-Navarro, Hector
name: Srivastava, Abhishek K.
name: Sterling, Alphonse C.
name: Suematsu, Yoshinori
name: Tarr, Lucas A.
name: Tiwari, Sanjiv
name: Tritschler, Alexandra
name: Verth, Gary
name: Vourlidas, Angelos
name: Wang, Haimin
name: Wang, Yi-Ming
name: NSO
name: project, DKIST
name: scientists, DKIST instrument
name: Group, the DKIST Science Working
name: Community, the DKIST Critical Science Plan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) will revolutionize our ability to measure, understand and model the basic physical processes that control the structure and dynamics of the Sun and its atmosphere. The first-light DKIST images, released publicly on 29 January 2020, only hint at the extraordinary capabilities which will accompany full commissioning of the five facility instruments. With this Critical Science Plan (CSP) we attempt to anticipate some of what those capabilities will enable, providing a snapshot of some of the scientific pursuits that the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope hopes to engage as start-of-operations nears. The work builds on the combined contributions of the DKIST Science Working Group (SWG) and CSP Community members, who generously shared their experiences, plans, knowledge and dreams. Discussion is primarily focused on those issues to which DKIST will uniquely contribute.