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 properties of the solar corona and its connection to the solar wind

SR Cranmer, AR Winebarger - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The corona is a layer of hot plasma that surrounds the Sun, traces out its complex magnetic
field, and ultimately expands into interplanetary space as the supersonic solar wind …

[HTML][HTML] The solar orbiter mission-science overview

D Müller, OCS Cyr, I Zouganelis, HR Gilbert… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Aims. Solar Orbiter, the first mission of ESA's Cosmic Vision 2015–2025 programme and a
mission of international collaboration between ESA and NASA, will explore the Sun and …

Theory and transport of nearly incompressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

GP Zank, L Adhikari, P Hunana, D Shiota… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The theory of nearly incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (NI MHD) was developed
largely in the early 1990s, together with an important extension to inhomogeneous flows in …

In-situ switchback formation in the expanding solar wind

J Squire, BDG Chandran… - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent near-Sun solar-wind observations from Parker Solar Probe have found a highly
dynamic magnetic environment, permeated by abrupt radial-field reversals, or" switchbacks." …

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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Sharp Alfvénic impulses in the near-Sun solar wind

TS Horbury, T Woolley, R Laker… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Measurements of the near-Sun solar wind by the Parker Solar Probe have revealed the
presence of large numbers of discrete Alfvénic impulses with an anti-sunward sense of …

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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Observation of a magnetic switchback in the solar corona

D Telloni, GP Zank, M Stangalini… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Switchbacks are sudden, large radial deflections of the solar wind magnetic field, widely
revealed in interplanetary space by the Parker Solar Probe. The switchbacks' formation …

Kinetic Turbulence in Collisionless High- Plasmas

L Arzamasskiy, MW Kunz, J Squire, E Quataert… - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
We present results from three-dimensional hybrid-kinetic simulations of Alfvénic turbulence
in a high-β, collisionless plasma. The key feature of such turbulence is the interplay between …