Katharine Reeves

{{Short description|Astronomer}}

Katharine Reeves is an astronomer and solar physicist who works at the Center for Astrophysics {{!}} Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA).{{Cite web|url=http://spd.aas.org/harvpc.html|title=SPD Harvey Prize Citations|website=spd.aas.org|access-date=2016-06-18|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160526085152/http://spd.aas.org/harvpc.html|archive-date=2016-05-26}} She is known for her work on high temperature plasmas in the solar corona,{{cite journal | doi=10.1088/2041-8205/727/2/L52 | title=Atmospheric Imaging Assembly Observations of Hot Flare Plasma | year=2011 | last1=Reeves | first1=Katharine K. | last2=Golub | first2=Leon | journal=The Astrophysical Journal | volume=727 | issue=2 | pages=L52 | bibcode=2011ApJ...727L..52R | s2cid=121213510 | doi-access=free }} 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{{cite journal | arxiv=2212.00665 | doi=10.3847/1538-4357/acbb58 | title=The First Flight of the Marshall Grazing Incidence X-Ray Spectrometer (MaGIXS) | year=2023 | last1=Savage | first1=Sabrina L. | last2=Winebarger | first2=Amy R. | last3=Kobayashi | first3=Ken | last4=Athiray | first4=P. S. | last5=Beabout | first5=Dyana | last6=Golub | first6=Leon | last7=Walsh | first7=Robert W. | last8=Beabout | first8=Brent | last9=Bradshaw | first9=Stephen | last10=Bruccoleri | first10=Alexander R. | last11=Champey | first11=Patrick R. | last12=Cheimets | first12=Peter | last13=Cirtain | first13=Jonathan | last14=Deluca | first14=Edward E. | last15=Del Zanna | first15=Giulio | last16=Dudík | first16=Jaroslav | last17=Guillory | first17=Anthony | last18=Haight | first18=Harlan | last19=Heilmann | first19=Ralf K. | last20=Hertz | first20=Edward | last21=Hogue | first21=William | last22=Kegley | first22=Jeffery | last23=Kolodziejczak | first23=Jeffery | last24=Madsen | first24=Chad | last25=Mason | first25=Helen | last26=McKenzie | first26=David E. | last27=Ranganathan | first27=Jagan | last28=Reeves | first28=Katharine K. | last29=Robertson | first29=Bryan | last30=Schattenburg | first30=Mark L. | journal=The Astrophysical Journal | volume=945 | issue=2 | page=105 | bibcode=2023ApJ...945..105S | s2cid=126230776 | display-authors=1 | doi-access=free }} and Hi-C FLARE{{cite journal | bibcode=2019AGUFMSH33A..06W | title=Unfolding Overlappogram Data: Preparing for the COOL-AID instrument on Hi-C FLARE | last1=Winebarger | first1=A. R. | last2=De Pontieu | first2=B. | last3=Cheung | first3=C. M. M. | last4=Martinez-Sykora | first4=J. | last5=Hansteen | first5=V. H. | last6=Testa | first6=P. | last7=Golub | first7=L. | last8=Savage | first8=S. L. | last9=Samra | first9=J. | last10=Reeves | first10=K. | journal=AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts | year=2019 | volume=2019 }} 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.