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 …

[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 …

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 -
IOPscience This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this site you agree to our use of …

Solar Orbiter Exploring the Sun–Heliosphere Connection

D Mueller, RG Marsden, OC St. Cyr, HR Gilbert… - Solar Physics, 2013 - Springer
The heliosphere represents a uniquely accessible domain of space, where fundamental
physical processes common to solar, astrophysical and laboratory plasmas can be studied …

Alfvén wave solar model (AWSoM): coronal heating

B van der Holst, IV Sokolov, X Meng, M Jin… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a new version of the Alfvén wave solar model, a global model from the upper
chromosphere to the corona and the heliosphere. The coronal heating and solar wind …

Theory of cosmic ray transport in the heliosphere

NE Engelbrecht, F Effenberger, V Florinski… - Space Science …, 2022 - Springer
Modelling the transport of cosmic rays (CRs) in the heliosphere represents a global
challenge in the field of heliophysics, in that such a study, if it were to be performed from first …

Coherent structures, intermittent turbulence, and dissipation in high-temperature plasmas

H Karimabadi, V Roytershteyn, M Wan… - Physics of …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
An unsolved problem in plasma turbulence is how energy is dissipated at small scales.
Particle collisions are too infrequent in hot plasmas to provide the necessary dissipation …

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 …