Parker solar probe: Four years of discoveries at solar cycle minimum

NE Raouafi, L Matteini, J Squire, ST Badman… - Space Science …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Launched on 12 Aug. 2018, NASA's Parker Solar Probe had completed 13 of its
scheduled 24 orbits around the Sun by Nov. 2022. The mission's primary science goal is to …

The solar probe plus mission: humanity's first visit to our star

NJ Fox, MC Velli, SD Bale, R Decker, A Driesman… - Space Science …, 2016 - Springer
Abstract Solar Probe Plus (SPP) will be the first spacecraft to fly into the low solar corona.
SPP's main science goal is to determine the structure and dynamics of the Sun's coronal …

Highly structured slow solar wind emerging from an equatorial coronal hole

SD Bale, ST Badman, JW Bonnell, TA Bowen… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
During the solar minimum, when the Sun is at its least active, the solar wind, is observed at
high latitudes as a predominantly fast (more than 500 kilometres per second), highly Alfvénic …

The FIELDS instrument suite for Solar Probe Plus: measuring the coronal plasma and magnetic field, plasma waves and turbulence, and radio signatures of solar …

SD Bale, K Goetz, PR Harvey, P Turin, JW Bonnell… - Space science …, 2016 - Springer
Abstract NASA's Solar Probe Plus (SPP) mission will make the first in situ measurements of
the solar corona and the birthplace of the solar wind. The FIELDS instrument suite on SPP …

Alfvénic waves with sufficient energy to power the quiet solar corona and fast solar wind

SW McIntosh, B De Pontieu, M Carlsson, V Hansteen… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Energy is required to heat the outer solar atmosphere to millions of degrees (refs,) and to
accelerate the solar wind to hundreds of kilometres per second (refs). Alfvén waves …

HelioSwarm: a multipoint, multiscale mission to characterize turbulence

KG Klein, H Spence, O Alexandrova, M Argall… - Space Science …, 2023 - Springer
HelioSwarm (HS) is a NASA Medium-Class Explorer mission of the Heliophysics Division
designed to explore the dynamic three-dimensional mechanisms controlling the physics of …

Shear-driven transition to isotropically turbulent solar wind outside the Alfvén critical zone

D Ruffolo, WH Matthaeus, R Chhiber… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Shear-driven Transition to Isotropically Turbulent Solar Wind Outside the Alfvén Critical Zone -
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Vlasov methods in space physics and astrophysics

M Palmroth, U Ganse, Y Pfau-Kempf… - Living reviews in …, 2018 - Springer
This paper reviews Vlasov-based numerical methods used to model plasma in space
physics and astrophysics. Plasma consists of collectively behaving charged particles that …

Heating of the solar chromosphere and corona by Alfvén wave turbulence

AA Van Ballegooijen, M Asgari-Targhi… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT A three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model for the propagation
and dissipation of Alfvén waves in a coronal loop is developed. The model includes the …

The evolution and role of solar wind turbulence in the inner heliosphere

CHK Chen, SD Bale, JW Bonnell… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
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