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 …

Coronal loops: observations and modeling of confined plasma

F Reale - Living Reviews in Solar Physics, 2014 - Springer
Coronal loops are the building blocks of the X-ray bright solar corona. They owe their
brightness to the dense confined plasma, and this review focuses on loops mostly as …

Wave heating of the solar atmosphere

I Arregui - … Transactions of the Royal Society A …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Magnetic waves are a relevant component in the dynamics of the solar atmosphere. Their
significance has increased because of their potential as a remote diagnostic tool and their …

The role of turbulence in coronal heating and solar wind expansion

SR Cranmer, M Asgari-Targhi… - … of the Royal …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Plasma in the Sun's hot corona expands into the heliosphere as a supersonic and highly
magnetized solar wind. This paper provides an overview of our current understanding of …

The transport of low-frequency turbulence in astrophysical flows. II. Solutions for the super-Alfvénic solar wind

L Adhikari, GP Zank, R Bruno, D Telloni… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Zank et al. developed a turbulence transport model for low-frequency incompressible
magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in inhomogeneous flows in terms of the energy …

The transport and evolution of MHD turbulence throughout the heliosphere: models and observations

L Adhikari, GP Zank, L Zhao - Fluids, 2021 - mdpi.com
A detailed study of solar wind turbulence throughout the heliosphere in both the upwind and
downwind directions is presented. We use an incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) …

Heating and acceleration of the fast solar wind by Alfvén wave turbulence

AA Van Ballegooijen… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present numerical simulations of reduced magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) turbulence in
a magnetic flux tube at the center of a polar coronal hole. The model for the background …

Active region emission measure distributions and implications for nanoflare heating

PJ Cargill - The Astrophysical Journal, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The temperature dependence of the emission measure (EM) in the core of active regions
coronal loops is an important diagnostic of heating processes. Observations indicate that EM …

Probing the solar transition region: current status and future perspectives

H Tian - Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The solar transition region (TR) is the temperature regime from roughly 0.02 MK to 0.8 MK in
the solar atmosphere. It is the transition layer from the collisional and partially ionized …

Critical Science Plan for the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST)

MP Rast, N Bello González, L Bellot Rubio, W Cao… - Solar Physics, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The National Science Foundation's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) will
revolutionize our ability to measure, understand, and model the basic physical processes …