Solar wind electrons alphas and protons (SWEAP) investigation: Design of the solar wind and coronal plasma instrument suite for solar probe plus

JC Kasper, R Abiad, G Austin, M Balat-Pichelin… - Space Science …, 2016 - Springer
Abstract The Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP) Investigation on Solar
Probe Plus is a four sensor instrument suite that provides complete measurements of the …

The multi-scale nature of the solar wind

D Verscharen, KG Klein, BA Maruca - Living Reviews in Solar Physics, 2019 - Springer
The solar wind is a magnetized plasma and as such exhibits collective plasma behavior
associated with its characteristic spatial and temporal scales. The characteristic length …

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 …

The FIP and inverse FIP effects in solar and stellar coronae

JM Laming - Living Reviews in Solar Physics, 2015 - Springer
We review our state of knowledge of coronal element abundance anomalies in the Sun and
stars. We concentrate on the first ionization potential (FIP) effect observed in the solar …

Nine outstanding questions of solar wind physics

NM Viall, JE Borovsky - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In situ measurements of the solar wind have been available for almost 60 years, and in that
time plasma physics simulation capabilities have commenced and ground‐based solar …

A Quarter Century of Wind Spacecraft Discoveries

LB Wilson III, AL Brosius, N Gopalswamy… - 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The Wind spacecraft, launched on November 1, 1994, is a critical element in NASA's
Heliophysics System Observatory (HSO)—a fleet of spacecraft created to understand the …

Slow solar wind: observations and modeling

L Abbo, L Ofman, SK Antiochos, VH Hansteen… - Space Science …, 2016 - Springer
While it is certain that the fast solar wind originates from coronal holes, where and how the
slow solar wind (SSW) is formed remains an outstanding question in solar physics even in …

Compositional Metrics of Fast and Slow Alfvénic Solar Wind Emerging from Coronal Holes and Their Boundaries

T Ervin, SD Bale, ST Badman, YJ Rivera… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We seek to understand the composition and variability of fast solar wind (FSW) and slow
Alfvénic solar wind emerging from coronal holes (CHs). We leverage an opportune …

A comparison of alpha particle and proton beam differential flows in collisionally young solar wind

BL Alterman, JC Kasper, ML Stevens… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
In fast wind or when the local Coulomb collision frequency is low, observations show that
solar wind minor ions and ion subpopulations flow with different bulk velocities …

On Alfvénic slow wind: A journey from the Earth back to the Sun

R d'Amicis, D Perrone, R Bruno, M Velli - 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Comparative studies of fast and slow solar wind streams performed over the past decades
have illustrated several differences between the plasma regimes for these different flows …