Solaris: A Focused Solar Polar Discovery-class Mission to achieve the Highest Priority Heliophysics Science Now

Co-Authors: Sarah E Gibson2, Jeffrey S Newmark3, Nicholas A. Featherstone1, Lisa Upton1, Nicholeen M Viall3, J Todd Hoeksema4, Frederic Auchere5, Aaron Birch6, Doug Braun7, Paul Charbonneau8, Robin Colannino9, Craig DeForest1, Mausumi Dikpati2, Cooper Downs10, Nicole Duncan11, Heather Alison Elliott1, Yuhong Fan2, Silvano Fineschi12, Laurent Gizon6, Sanjay Gosain13, Louise Harra14, Brad Hindman15, David Berghmans16, Susan T Lepri17, Jon Linker10, Mark B. Moldwin17, Andres Munoz-Jaramillo1, Dibyendu Nandy18, Yeimy Rivera19, Jesper Schou6, Justyna Sokol1, Barbara Thompson3, Marco Velli20, Thomas N. Woods14, Junwei Zhao4

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