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) …

[HTML][HTML] The Sun's Alfvén Surface: Recent Insights and Prospects for the Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH)

SR Cranmer, R Chhiber, CR Gilly, IH Cairns… - Solar Physics, 2023 - Springer
The solar wind is the extension of the Sun's hot and ionized corona, and it exists in a state of
continuous expansion into interplanetary space. The radial distance at which the wind's …

3D simulations of magnetoconvection in a rapidly rotating supernova progenitor

V Varma, B Müller - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present a first 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation of oxygen, neon, and carbon
shell burning in a rapidly rotating core-collapse supernova progenitor. We also run a purely …

Occurrence and evolution of switchbacks in the inner heliosphere: Parker solar probe observations

VK Jagarlamudi, NE Raouafi… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Since its launch in 2018, the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) mission revealed the presence of
numerous fascinating phenomena occurring closer to the Sun, such as the presence of …

Self-similar Outflows at the Source of the Fast Solar Wind: A Smoking Gun of Multiscale Impulsive Reconnection?

VM Uritsky, JT Karpen, NE Raouafi… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present results of a quantitative analysis of structured plasma outflows above a polar
coronal hole observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board the Solar …

Estimates of Proton and Electron Heating Rates Extended to the Near-Sun Environment

R Bandyopadhyay, CM Meyer… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
A central problem of space plasma physics is how protons and electrons are heated in a
turbulent, magnetized plasma. The differential heating of charged species due to dissipation …

Direct In Situ Measurements of a Fast Coronal Mass Ejection and Associated Structures in the Corona

YD Liu, B Zhu, H Ran, H Hu, M Liu, X Zhao… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on the first direct in situ measurements of a fast coronal mass ejection (CME) and
shock in the corona, which occurred on 2022 September 5. In situ measurements from the …

New observations of solar wind 1/f turbulence spectrum from Parker Solar Probe

Z Huang, N Sioulas, C Shi, M Velli… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The trace magnetic power spectrum in the solar wind is known to be characterized by a
double power law at scales much larger than the proton gyro-radius, with flatter spectral …

Quantifying the Energy Budget in the Solar Wind from 13.3 to 100 Solar Radii

JS Halekas, SD Bale, M Berthomier… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
A variety of energy sources, ranging from dynamic processes, such as magnetic
reconnection and waves, to quasi-steady terms, such as plasma pressure, may contribute to …

Properties of an Interplanetary Shock Observed at 0.07 and 0.7 au by Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter

D Trotta, A Larosa, G Nicolaou… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Parker Solar Probe (PSP) and Solar Orbiter (SolO) missions opened a new
observational window in the inner heliosphere, which is finally accessible to direct …