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 …

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 …

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 …

Large gradual solar energetic particle events

M Desai, J Giacalone - Living Reviews in Solar Physics, 2016 - Springer
Solar energetic particles, or SEPs, from suprathermal (few keV) up to relativistic (∼∼ few
GeV) energies are accelerated near the Sun in at least two ways:(1) by magnetic …

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 Skip to content IOP Science home Accessibility Help …

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) …

Multispacecraft observations of a widespread solar energetic particle event on 2022 february 15–16

LY Khoo, B Sánchez-Cano, CO Lee… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract On 2022 February 15–16, multiple spacecraft measured one of the most intense
solar energetic particle (SEP) events observed so far in Solar Cycle 25. This study provides …

Probing the energetic particle environment near the Sun

DJ McComas, ER Christian, CMS Cohen… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract NASA's Parker Solar Probe mission recently plunged through the inner heliosphere
of the Sun to its perihelia, about 24 million kilometres from the Sun. Previous studies farther …

Magnetic connectivity of the ecliptic plane within 0.5 au: potential field source surface modeling of the first Parker Solar Probe encounter

ST Badman, SD Bale, JCM Oliveros… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We compare magnetic field measurements taken by the FIELDS instrument on board Parker
Solar Probe (PSP) during its first solar encounter to predictions obtained by potential field …