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 …

Parker Solar Probe Enters the Magnetically Dominated Solar Corona

JC Kasper, KG Klein, E Lichko, J Huang, CHK Chen… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
The high temperatures and strong magnetic fields of the solar corona form streams of solar
wind that expand through the Solar System into interstellar space. At 09: 33 UT on 28 April …

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 …

The Solar Probe ANalyzer—Ions on the Parker Solar Probe

R Livi, DE Larson, JC Kasper, R Abiad… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Solar Probe ANalyzer for Ions (SPAN-I) onboard NASA's Parker Solar Probe
spacecraft is an electrostatic analyzer with time-of-flight capabilities that measures the ion …

Global circulation of the open magnetic flux of the Sun

LA Fisk, JC Kasper - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The global circulation of the open magnetic flux of the Sun, the component of the solar
magnetic field that opens into the heliosphere, and the consequences of the global …

Near-Sun In Situ and Remote-sensing Observations of a Coronal Mass Ejection and its Effect on the Heliospheric Current Sheet

OM Romeo, CR Braga, ST Badman… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
During the thirteenth encounter of the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) mission, the spacecraft
traveled through a topologically complex interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) …

Characteristic scales of magnetic switchback patches near the sun and their possible association with solar supergranulation and granulation

N Fargette, B Lavraud, AP Rouillard… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Parker Solar Probe (PSP) data recorded within a heliocentric radial distance of 0.3
au have revealed a magnetic field dominated by Alfvénic structures that undergo large local …

Evolution of switchbacks in the inner heliosphere

A Tenerani, N Sioulas, L Matteini… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We analyze magnetic field data from the first six encounters of Parker Solar Probe, three
Helios fast streams and two Ulysses south polar passes covering heliocentric distances …

On the generation and evolution of switchbacks and the morphology of the Alfvénic transition: low Mach-number boundary layers

YD Liu, H Ran, H Hu, SD Bale - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the generation and evolution of switchbacks (SBs), the nature of the sub-
Alfvénic wind observed by the Parker Solar Probe (PSP), and the morphology of the Alfvénic …

Enhanced proton parallel temperature inside patches of switchbacks in the inner heliosphere

LD Woodham, TS Horbury, L Matteini… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. Switchbacks are discrete angular deflections in the solar wind magnetic field that
have been observed throughout the heliosphere. Recent observations by Parker Solar …