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 …

[HTML][HTML] Physics and applications of dusty plasmas: The Perspectives 2023

J Beckers, J Berndt, D Block, M Bonitz… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Dusty plasmas are electrically quasi-neutral media that, along with electrons, ions, neutral
gas, radiation, and electric and/or magnetic fields, also contain solid or liquid particles with …

Solar Orbiter's first Venus flyby: Observations from the Radio and Plasma Wave instrument

LZ Hadid, NJT Edberg, T Chust, D Píša… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. On December 27, 2020, Solar Orbiter completed its first gravity assist manoeuvre of
Venus (VGAM1). While this flyby was performed to provide the spacecraft with sufficient …

Modeling Solar Orbiter dust detection rates in the inner heliosphere as a Poisson process

S Kočiščák, A Kvammen, I Mann, SH Sørbye… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. Solar Orbiter provides dust detection capability in the inner heliosphere, but
estimating physical properties of detected dust from the collected data is far from …

Alpha-Meteoroids then and now: Unearthing an overlooked micrometeoroid population

M Sommer - Planetary and Space Science, 2023 - Elsevier
The term 'α-meteoroid'was introduced to describe a group of micrometeoroids with certain
dynamical properties, which–alongside the group of the β-meteoroids–had been identified …

First observations and performance of the RPW instrument on board the Solar Orbiter mission

M Maksimovic, J Souček, T Chust… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
The Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) instrument on the ESA Solar Orbiter mission is
designed to measure in situ magnetic and electric fields and waves from the continuum up to …

Variability of antenna signals from dust impacts

MM Shen, Z Sternovsky… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Electric field instruments carried by spacecraft (SC) are complementary to dedicated dust
detectors by registering transient voltage perturbations caused by impact‐generated …

Machine learning detection of dust impact signals observed by the Solar Orbiter

A Kvammen, K Wickstrøm, S Kociscak… - Annales …, 2023 - angeo.copernicus.org
This article presents the results of automatic detection of dust impact signals observed by the
Solar Orbiter–Radio and Plasma Waves instrument. A sharp and characteristic electric field …

Solar orbiter radio and plasma waves–time domain sampler: In-flight performance and first results

J Soucek, D Píša, I Kolmasova, L Uhlir, R Lan… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. The Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) instrument on board Solar Orbiter has been
operating nearly continuously since the launch in February 2020. The Time Domain …

Astrophysically sourced quantum coherent photonic signals

A Berera, J Calderón-Figueroa, L Chen, TW Kephart - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Stimulated emission is shown to be robust in stars. Through Bose enhancement this
produces quantum states of aligned, monochromatic photons somewhat similar to a laser …