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 …

Scaling laws for the energy transfer in space plasma turbulence

R Marino, L Sorriso-Valvo - Physics Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
One characteristic trait of space plasmas is the multi-scale dynamics resulting from non-
linear transfers and conversions of various forms of energy. Routinely evidenced in a range …

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 …

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 1, 2 is observed
at high latitudes as a predominantly fast (more than 500 kilometres per second), highly …

Alfvénic velocity spikes and rotational flows in the near-Sun solar wind

JC Kasper, SD Bale, JW Belcher, M Berthomier… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The prediction of a supersonic solar wind was first confirmed by spacecraft near Earth, and
later by spacecraft at heliocentric distances as small as 62 solar radii. These missions …

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 …

Interchange reconnection as the source of the fast solar wind within coronal holes

SD Bale, JF Drake, MD McManus, MI Desai… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The fast solar wind that fills the heliosphere originates from deep within regions of open
magnetic field on the Sun called 'coronal holes'. The energy source responsible for …

Switchbacks in the near-Sun magnetic field: long memory and impact on the turbulence cascade

TD de Wit, VV Krasnoselskikh, SD Bale… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
One of the most striking observations made by Parker Solar Probe during its first solar
encounter is the omnipresence of rapid polarity reversals in a magnetic field that is …

The solar probe cup on the Parker Solar Probe

AW Case, JC Kasper, ML Stevens… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Solar Probe Cup (SPC) is a Faraday cup instrument on board NASA's Parker Solar
Probe (PSP) spacecraft designed to make rapid measurements of thermal coronal and solar …

A solar source of Alfvénic magnetic field switchbacks: in situ remnants of magnetic funnels on supergranulation scales

SD Bale, TS Horbury, M Velli, MI Desai… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
A Solar Source of Alfvénic Magnetic Field Switchbacks: In Situ Remnants of Magnetic Funnels
on Supergranulation Scales - IOPscience This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this site …