|
Notice:
|
Found 287 entries in the Bibliography.
Showing entries from 201 through 250
| 2018 |
|
Deep-space exploration of the inner heliosphere is in an unprecedented golden age, with the recent and forthcoming launches of the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) and Solar Orbiter (SolO) missions, respectively. In order to both predict and understand the prospective observations by PSP and SolO, we perform forward MHD modeling of the 3D inner heliosphere at solar minimum, and synthesize the white-light (WL) emission that would result from Thomson scattering of sunlight from the coronal and heliospheric plasmas. Both solar rotat ... Xiong, Ming; Davies, Jackie; Feng, Xueshang; Li, Bo; Yang, Liping; Xia, Lidong; Harrison, Richard; Hayashi, Keiji; Li, Huichao; Zhou, Yufen; Published by: The Astrophysical Journal Published on: 12/2018 YEAR: 2018 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aae978 magnetohydrodynamics: MHD; methods: numerical; Parker Data Used; parker solar probe; Solar Probe Plus; Solar wind; Sun: corona; Sun: heliosphere |
|
Nonlinear Firehose Relaxation and Constant-B Field Fluctuations Published by: \apjl Published on: 11/2018 YEAR: 2018 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aaec01 Parker Data Used; instabilities; plasmas; Solar wind; waves; Physics - Plasma Physics |
|
In situ spacecraft observations provide much-needed constraints on theories of solar wind formation and release, particularly the highly variable slow solar wind, which dominates near-Earth space. Previous studies have shown an association between local inversions in the heliospheric magnetic field (HMF) and solar wind released from the vicinity of magnetically closed coronal structures. We here show that in situ properties of inverted HMF are consistent with the same hot coronal source regions as the slow solar wind. We ... Owens, Mathew; Lockwood, Mike; Barnard, Luke; Macneil, Allan; Published by: The Astrophysical Journal Published on: 11/2018 YEAR: 2018 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aaee82 parker solar probe; Solar Probe Plus; Solar wind; Sun: activity; Sun: corona; Sun: magnetic fields |
|
A New Inner Heliosphere Proton Parameter Dataset from the Helios Mission In the near future, Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter will provide the first comprehensive in-situ measurements of the solar wind in the inner heliosphere since the Helios mission in the 1970s. We describe a reprocessing of the original Helios ion distribution functions to provide reliable and reproducible data to characterise the proton core population of the solar wind in the inner heliosphere. A systematic fitting of bi-Maxwellian distribution functions was performed to the raw Helios ion distribution function data ... Stansby, David; Salem, Chadi; Matteini, Lorenzo; Horbury, Timothy; Published by: Solar Physics Published on: 11/2018 YEAR: 2018 DOI: 10.1007/s11207-018-1377-3 Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics; Heliosphere; Inner heliosphere; parker solar probe; Physics - Space Physics; Solar Probe Plus; Solar wind; Solar wind protons |
|
Spatial Expansion and Speeds of Type III Electron Beam Sources in the Solar Corona A component of space weather, electron beams are routinely accelerated in the solar atmosphere and propagate through interplanetary space. Electron beams interact with Langmuir waves resulting in type III radio bursts. They expand along the trajectory and, using kinetic simulations, we explore the expansion as the electrons propagate away from the Sun. Specifically, we investigate the front, peak, and back of the electron beam in space from derived radio brightness temperatures of fundamental type III emission. The front ... Published by: The Astrophysical Journal Published on: 11/2018 YEAR: 2018 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aae5d4 Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics; parker solar probe; Solar Probe Plus; Solar wind; Sun: corona; Sun: flares; Sun: particle emission; Sun: radio radiation |
|
Bandyopadhyay, Riddhi; Chasapis, A.; Chhiber, R.; Parashar, T.~N.; Matthaeus, W.~H.; Shay, M.~A.; Maruca, B.~A.; Burch, J.~L.; Moore, T.~E.; Pollock, C.~J.; Giles, B.~L.; Paterson, W.~R.; Dorelli, J.; Gershman, D.~J.; Torbert, R.~B.; Russell, C.~T.; Strangeway, R.~J.; Published by: \apj Published on: 10/2018 YEAR: 2018 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aade04 Parker Data Used; magnetohydrodynamics: MHD; planets and satellites: magnetic fields; plasmas; Solar wind; turbulence; Physics - Space Physics |
|
Solar Wind Turbulence Studies Using MMS Fast Plasma Investigation Data Bandyopadhyay, Riddhi; Chasapis, A.; Chhiber, R.; Parashar, T.~N.; Maruca, B.~A.; Matthaeus, W.~H.; Schwartz, S.~J.; Eriksson, S.; Le Contel, O.; Breuillard, H.; Burch, J.~L.; Moore, T.~E.; Pollock, C.~J.; Giles, B.~L.; Paterson, W.~R.; Dorelli, J.; Gershman, D.~J.; Torbert, R.~B.; Russell, C.~T.; Strangeway, R.~J.; Published by: \apj Published on: 10/2018 YEAR: 2018 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aade93 Parker Data Used; magnetohydrodynamics: MHD; methods: data analysis; methods: statistical; plasmas; Solar wind; turbulence; Physics - Space Physics |
|
Parametric Decay and the Origin of the Low-frequency Alfv\ enic Spectrum of the Solar Wind The fast solar wind shows a wide spectrum of transverse magnetic and velocity field perturbations. These perturbations are strongly correlated in the sense of Alfv\ en waves propagating mostly outward, from the Sun to the interplanetary medium. They are likely to be fundamental to the acceleration and the heating of the solar wind. However, the precise origin of the broadband spectrum is unknown to date. Typical periods of chromospheric Alfv\ en waves are limited to a few minutes, and any longer period perturbations shoul ... Réville, Victor; Tenerani, Anna; Velli, Marco; Published by: The Astrophysical Journal Published on: 10/2018 YEAR: 2018 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aadb8f instabilities; magnetohydrodynamics: MHD; methods: numerical; parker solar probe; Solar Probe Plus; Solar wind; waves |
|
Simulated Encounters of the Parker Solar Probe with a Coronal-hole Jet Solar coronal jets are small, transient, collimated ejections most easily observed in coronal holes (CHs). The upcoming Parker Solar Probe (PSP) mission provides the first opportunity to encounter CH jets in situ near the Sun and examine their internal structure and dynamics. Using projected mission orbital parameters, we have simulated PSP encounters with a fully three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model of a CH jet. We find that three internal jet regions, featuring different wave modes and levels of compressibi ... Roberts, Merrill; Uritsky, Vadim; DeVore, Richard; Karpen, Judith; Published by: The Astrophysical Journal Published on: 10/2018 YEAR: 2018 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aadb41 Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics; Parker Data Used; parker solar probe; Solar Probe Plus; Solar wind; Sun: activity; Sun: corona; Sun: heliosphere; Sun: magnetic fields |
|
Usmanov, Arcadi; Matthaeus, William; Goldstein, Melvyn; Chhiber, Rohit; Published by: \apj Published on: 09/2018 YEAR: 2018 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aad687 Parker Data Used; magnetohydrodynamics: MHD; methods: numerical; Solar wind; Sun: corona; Sun: rotation; turbulence |
|
Dependence of Kinetic Plasma Turbulence on Plasma \ensuremath\beta Parashar, Tulasi; Matthaeus, William; Shay, Michael; Published by: \apjl Published on: 09/2018 YEAR: 2018 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aadb8b Parker Data Used; plasmas; Solar wind; turbulence; Physics - Space Physics; Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies; Physics - Plasma Physics |
|
le Roux, J.~A.; Zank, G.~P.; Khabarova, O.~V.; Published by: \apj Published on: 09/2018 YEAR: 2018 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aad8b3 Parker Data Used; acceleration of particles; magnetic reconnection; Solar wind |
|
Oscillations of cometary tails: a vortex shedding phenomenon? o, Nistic\; Vladimirov, V.; Nakariakov, V.~M.; Battams, K.; Bothmer, V.; Published by: \aap Published on: 08/2018 YEAR: 2018 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201732474 Parker Data Used; Solar wind; comets: individual: Encke; ISON; magnetohydrodynamics (MHD); methods: observational; instabilities; waves; Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics |
|
Short, large-amplitude speed enhancements in the near-Sunfast solar wind We report the presence of intermittent, short discrete enhancements in plasma speed in the near-Sun high-speed solar wind. Lasting tens of seconds to minutes in spacecraft measurements at 0.3 au, speeds inside these enhancements can reach 1000 km s-1, corresponding to a kinetic energy up to twice that of the bulk high-speed solar wind. These events, which occur around 5 per cent of the time, are Alfv\ enic in nature with large magnetic field deflections and are the same temperature as the surrounding plasma, in ... Horbury, T; Matteini, L; Stansby, D; Published by: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Published on: 08/2018 YEAR: 2018 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty953 parker solar probe; Solar Probe Plus; Solar wind; Sun: corona |
|
Chhiber, Rohit; Usmanov, Arcadi; DeForest, Craig; Matthaeus, William; Parashar, Tulasi; Goldstein, Melvyn; Published by: \apjl Published on: 04/2018 YEAR: 2018 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aab843 Parker Data Used; magnetohydrodynamics: MHD; Solar wind; Sun: corona; turbulence |
|
Radial evolution of the solar wind in pure high-speed streams: HELIOS revised observations Spacecraft observations have shown that the proton temperature in the solar wind falls off with radial distance more slowly than expected for an adiabatic prediction. Usually, previous studies have been focused on the evolution of the solar-wind plasma by using the bulk speed as an order parameter to discriminate different regimes. In contrast, here, we study the radial evolution of pure and homogeneous fast streams (i.e. well-defined streams of coronal-hole plasma that maintain their identity during several solar rotatio ... Perrone, Denise; Stansby, D; Horbury, T; Matteini, L; Published by: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Published on: 03/2019 YEAR: 2018 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty3348 parker solar probe; Physics - Plasma Physics; Physics - Space Physics; Solar Probe Plus; Solar wind; Sun: corona; Sun: heliosphere |
|
Investigating the Effect of IMF Path Length on Pitch-angle Scattering of Strahl within 1 au Strahl is the strongly field-aligned, beam-like population of electrons in the solar wind. Strahl width is observed to increase with distance from the Sun, and hence strahl electrons must be subject to in-transit scattering effects. Different energy relations have been both observed and modeled for both strahl width and the width increase with radial distance. Thus, there is much debate regarding what mechanism(s) scatter strahl. In this study, we use a novel method to investigate strahl evolution within 1 au by estimatin ... Graham, G.; Rae, I.; Owen, C.; Walsh, A.; Published by: The Astrophysical Journal Published on: 03/2018 YEAR: 2018 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aaaf1b parker solar probe; plasmas; scattering; Solar Probe Plus; Solar wind; Sun: heliosphere |
|
Solar-wind predictions for the Parker Solar Probe Orbit Context. The Parker Solar Probe (PSP; formerly Solar Probe Plus) mission will be humanitys first in situ exploration of the solar corona with closest perihelia at 9.86 solar radii (R☉) distance to the Sun. It will help answer hitherto unresolved questions on the heating of the solar corona and the source and acceleration of the solar wind and solar energetic particles. The scope of this study is to model the solar-wind environment for PSPs unprecedented distances in its prime mission phase during the years 20 ... Published by: Astronomy \& Astrophysics Published on: 03/2018 YEAR: 2018 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201731831 Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics; Parker Data Used; parker solar probe; Physics - Space Physics; Solar Probe Plus; Solar wind; Sun: corona; Sun: heliosphere |
|
Spectroscopic Measurements of the Ion Velocity Distribution at the Base of the Fast Solar Wind In situ measurements of the fast solar wind reveal non-thermal distributions of electrons, protons, and minor ions extending from 0.3 au to the heliopause. The physical mechanisms responsible for these non-thermal properties and the location where these properties originate remain open questions. Here, we present spectroscopic evidence, from extreme ultraviolet spectroscopy, that the velocity distribution functions (VDFs) of minor ions are already non-Gaussian at the base of the fast solar wind in a coronal hole, at altit ... Jeffrey, Natasha; Hahn, Michael; Savin, Daniel; Fletcher, Lyndsay; Published by: The Astrophysical Journal Published on: 03/2018 YEAR: 2018 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aab08c Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics; line: profiles; parker solar probe; Solar Probe Plus; Solar wind; Sun: corona; Sun: heliosphere; Sun: UV radiation; techniques: spectroscopic |
|
Diagnosing solar wind origins using in situ measurements in the inner heliosphere Robustly identifying the solar sources of individual packets of solar wind measured in interplanetary space remains an open problem. We set out to see if this problem is easier to tackle using solar wind measurements closer to the Sun than 1 au, where the mixing and dynamical interaction of different solar wind streams is reduced. Using measurements from the Helios mission, we examined how the proton core temperature anisotropy and cross-helicity varied with distance. At 0.3 au there are two clearly separated anisotropic ... Stansby, D; Horbury, T; Matteini, L; Published by: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Published on: 01/2019 YEAR: 2018 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2814 Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics; parker solar probe; Physics - Space Physics; Solar Probe Plus; Solar wind; Sun:; Sun: heliosphere |
|
The Use of the Expanded FMEA in Spacecraft Fault Management The NASA/APL Parker Solar Probe (PSP) mission will revolutionize our understanding of the Sun by swooping to within 4 million miles of the Sun s surface. This mission targets the fundamental processes and dynamics that characterize the Sun s corona and outwardly expanding solar wind and will be the first mission to fly into the low solar corona (i.e., the Sun s atmosphere) revealing both how the corona is heated and how the solar wind is accelerated. PSP has many engineering challenges presented by the intense environment in ... Jones, Melissa; Fretz, Kristin; Kubota, Sanae; Smith, Clayton; Published by: Proceedings - Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium Published on: Failure modes; Fault detection; Human resource management; Maintainability; NASA; Risk analysis; Risk assessment; Safety factor; Solar radiation; Solar wind; Spacecraft; Parker Engineering |
| 2017 |
|
A Zone of Preferential Ion Heating Extends Tens of Solar Radii from the Sun The extreme temperatures and nonthermal nature of the solar corona and solar wind arise from an unidentified physical mechanism that preferentially heats certain ion species relative to others. Spectroscopic indicators of unequal temperatures commence within a fraction of a solar radius above the surface of the Sun, but the outer reach of this mechanism has yet to be determined. Here we present an empirical procedure for combining interplanetary solar wind measurements and a modeled energy equation including Coulomb relax ... Kasper, J.; Klein, K.; Weber, T.; Maksimovic, M.; Zaslavsky, A.; Bale, S.; Maruca, B.; Stevens, M.; Case, A.; Published by: The Astrophysical Journal Published on: 11/2017 YEAR: 2017 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa84b1 acceleration of particles; Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics; magnetic fields; parker solar probe; Physics - Plasma Physics; Physics - Space Physics; plasmas; Solar Probe Plus; Solar wind; Sun: corona; turbulence |
|
Future space missions: the inner region of the Solar system The paper deals with an overview of space missions to explore the inner region of the Solar System, the nearest on time of their launch, namely, Probe Plus, Solar Orbiter, BepiColombo, EXOMars, and InSight. Each of them will study either the Sun or the planet of the Earth group. Their launches are planned for 2018-2020. We describe briefly predestination and technical equipment of spacecrafts, flight plan and scientific goal of these missions. Published by: Kosm\ \i\v cna nauka \ \i tehnolog\ \i\^a Published on: 10/2017 YEAR: 2017 DOI: 10.15407/knit10.15407/knit2017.0310.15407/knit2017.03.073 Martian atmosphere; Martian surface; Mercury magnetic field; Parker Data Used; parker solar probe; Solar Probe Plus; Solar wind |
|
Quasi-thermal noise spectroscopy: The art and the practice Quasi-thermal noise spectroscopy is an efficient tool for measuring in situ macroscopic plasma properties in space, using a passive wave receiver at the ports of an electric antenna. This technique was pioneered on spinning spacecraft carrying very long dipole antennas in the interplanetary medium\textemdashlike ISEE-3 and Ulysses\textemdashwhose geometry approached a "theoretician\textquoterights dream." The technique has been extended to other instruments in various types of plasmas on board different spacecraft and wil ... Meyer-Vernet, N.; Issautier, K.; Moncuquet, M.; Published by: Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics Published on: 08/2017 YEAR: 2017 DOI: 10.1002/2017JA024449 electric antennas; magnetospheres; parker solar probe; plasma waves; radio receivers; Solar Probe Plus; Solar wind; velocity distributions |
|
Coronal Heating Topology: The Interplay of Current Sheets and Magnetic Field Lines Rappazzo, A.~F.; Matthaeus, W.~H.; Ruffolo, D.; Velli, M.; Servidio, S.; Published by: \apj Published on: 07/2017 YEAR: 2017 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa79f2 Parker Data Used; magnetohydrodynamics: MHD; Solar wind; Sun: activity; Sun: corona; Sun: magnetic fields; turbulence; Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics; Physics - Plasma Physics; Physics - Space Physics |
|
Published by: \apj Published on: 07/2017 YEAR: 2017 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa71b9 Parker Data Used; magnetohydrodynamics: MHD; methods: numerical; Solar wind; Sun: heliosphere; turbulence; waves; Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics; Physics - Plasma Physics; Physics - Space Physics |
|
Chhiber, R.; Subedi, P.; Usmanov, A.~V.; Matthaeus, W.~H.; Ruffolo, D.; Goldstein, M.~L.; Parashar, T.~N.; Published by: \apjs Published on: 06/2017 YEAR: 2017 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/aa74d2 Parker Data Used; cosmic rays; diffusion; methods: numerical; Solar wind; turbulence; Physics - Space Physics |
|
Turbulent Transport in a Three-dimensional Solar Wind Shiota, D.; Zank, G.~P.; Adhikari, L.; Hunana, P.; Telloni, D.; Bruno, R.; Published by: \apj Published on: 03/2017 YEAR: 2017 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa60bc Parker Data Used; magnetohydrodynamics: MHD; Solar wind; turbulence |
|
Langmuir wave electric fields induced by electron beams in the heliosphere Solar electron beams responsible for type III radio emission generate Langmuir waves as they propagate out from the Sun. The Langmuir waves are observed via in situ electric field measurements. These Langmuir waves are not smoothly distributed but occur in discrete clumps, commonly attributed to the turbulent nature of the solar wind electron density. Exactly how the density turbulence modulates the Langmuir wave electric fields is understood only qualitatively. Using weak turbulence simulations, we investigate how solar ... Published by: Astronomy \& Astrophysics Published on: 02/2017 YEAR: 2017 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201629697 Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics; parker solar probe; Physics - Plasma Physics; Physics - Space Physics; Solar Probe Plus; Solar wind; Sun: flares; Sun: heliosphere; Sun: magnetic fields; Sun: particle emission; Sun: radio radiation |
|
Reconnection-Driven Coronal-Hole Jets with Gravity and Solar Wind Karpen, J.~T.; DeVore, C.~R.; Antiochos, S.~K.; Pariat, E.; Published by: \apj Published on: 01/2017 YEAR: 2017 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/834/1/62 Parker Data Used; magnetic reconnection; magnetohydrodynamics: MHD; Solar wind; stars: jets; Sun: activity; Sun: corona; Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics |
|
Revisiting a Classic: The Parker-Moffatt Problem Pezzi, O.; Parashar, T.~N.; Servidio, S.; Valentini, F.; asconez, C.~L.; Yang, Y.; Malara, F.; Matthaeus, W.~H.; Veltri, P.; Published by: \apj Published on: 01/2017 YEAR: 2017 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/834/2/166 Parker Data Used; magnetohydrodynamics: MHD; plasmas; Solar wind; Physics - Space Physics |
| 2016 |
|
The Solar Probe Plus Mission: Humanity\textquoterights First Visit to Our Star Solar Probe Plus (SPP) will be the first spacecraft to fly into the low solar corona. SPP\textquoterights main science goal is to determine the structure and dynamics of the Sun\textquoterights coronal magnetic field, understand how the solar corona and wind are heated and accelerated, and determine what processes accelerate energetic particles. Understanding these fundamental phenomena has been a top-priority science goal for over five decades, dating back to the 1958 Simpson Committee Report. The scale and concept of su ... Fox, N.; Velli, M.; Bale, S.; Decker, R.; Driesman, A.; Howard, R.; Kasper, J.; Kinnison, J.; Kusterer, M.; Lario, D.; Lockwood, M.; McComas, D.; Raouafi, N.; Szabo, A.; Published by: Space Science Reviews Published on: 12/2016 YEAR: 2016 DOI: 10.1007/s11214-015-0211-6 Corona; Heliophysics; NASA mission; Parker Data Used; parker solar probe; Solar Probe Plus; Solar wind; SPP |
|
Tooprakai, P.; Seripienlert, A.; Ruffolo, D.; Chuychai, P.; Matthaeus, W.~H.; Published by: \apj Published on: 11/2016 YEAR: 2016 DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/831/2/195 Parker Data Used; magnetic fields; Solar wind; Sun: particle emission; turbulence |
|
Propinquity of Current and Vortex Structures: Effects on Collisionless Plasma Heating Parashar, Tulasi; Matthaeus, William; Published by: \apj Published on: 11/2016 YEAR: 2016 DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/832/1/57 Parker Data Used; plasmas; Solar wind; Sun: heliosphere; turbulence; Physics - Space Physics; Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics; Physics - Plasma Physics |
|
Slow Solar Wind: Observations and Modeling While it is certain that the fast solar wind originates from coronal holes, where and how the slow solar wind (SSW) is formed remains an outstanding question in solar physics even in the post-SOHO era. The quest for the SSW origin forms a major objective for the planned future missions such as the Solar Orbiter and Solar Probe Plus. Nonetheless, results from spacecraft data, combined with theoretical modeling, have helped to investigate many aspects of the SSW. Fundamental physical properties of the coronal plasma have be ... Abbo, L.; Ofman, L.; Antiochos, S.; Hansteen, V.; Harra, L.; Ko, Y.-K.; Lapenta, G.; Li, B.; Riley, P.; Strachan, L.; von Steiger, R.; Wang, Y.-M.; Published by: Space Science Reviews Published on: 11/2016 YEAR: 2016 DOI: 10.1007/s11214-016-0264-1 Corona; Coronal streamers; MHD and kinetic models; parker solar probe; Solar Probe Plus; Solar wind; Sun |
|
Fading Coronal Structure and the Onset of Turbulence in the Young Solar Wind DeForest, C.~E.; Matthaeus, W.~H.; Viall, N.~M.; Cranmer, S.~R.; Published by: \apj Published on: 09/2016 YEAR: 2016 DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/828/2/66 Parker Data Used; Solar wind; Sun: corona; Sun: fundamental parameters; techniques: image processing; Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics |
|
Turbulence and Proton-Electron Heating in Kinetic Plasma Matthaeus, William; Parashar, Tulasi; Wan, Minping; Wu, P.; Published by: \apjl Published on: 08/2016 YEAR: 2016 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8205/827/1/L7 Parker Data Used; galaxies: ISM; ISM: kinematics and dynamics; plasmas; solar─terrestrial relations; Solar wind; turbulence |
|
MEASURING COLLISIONLESS DAMPING IN HELIOSPHERIC PLASMAS USING FIELD\textendashPARTICLE CORRELATIONS An innovative field-particle correlation technique is proposed that uses single-point measurements of the electromagnetic fields and particle velocity distribution functions to investigate the net transfer of energy from fields to particles associated with the collisionless damping of turbulent fluctuations in weakly collisional plasmas, such as the solar wind. In addition to providing a direct estimate of the local rate of energy transfer between fields and particles, it provides vital new information about the distribut ... Published by: The Astrophysical Journal Published on: 08/2016 YEAR: 2016 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8205/826/2/L30 Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics; parker solar probe; Physics - Plasma Physics; Physics - Space Physics; plasmas; Solar Probe Plus; Solar wind; turbulence; waves |
|
Tenerani, Anna; Velli, Marco; DeForest, Craig; Published by: \apjl Published on: 07/2016 YEAR: 2016 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8205/825/1/L3 Parker Data Used; magnetic reconnection; magnetohydrodynamics: MHD; Solar wind; Sun: corona; waves |
|
Variance anisotropy in compressible 3-D MHD Oughton, S.; Matthaeus, W.~H.; Wan, Minping; Parashar, Tulasi; Published by: Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics) Published on: 06/2016 YEAR: 2016 DOI: 10.1002/2016JA022496 |
|
Variance Anisotropy in Kinetic Plasmas Parashar, Tulasi; Oughton, Sean; Matthaeus, William; Wan, Minping; Published by: \apj Published on: 06/2016 YEAR: 2016 DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/824/1/44 |
|
The first in situ measurements of electric and magnetic fields in the near-Sun environment (\< 0.25 AU from the Sun) will be made by the FIELDS instrument suite on the Solar Probe Plus mission. The Digital Fields Board (DFB) is an electronics board within FIELDS that performs analog and digital signal processing, as well as digitization, for signals between DC and 60 kHz from five voltage sensors and four search coil magnetometer channels. These nine input signals are processed on the DFB into 26 analog data streams. A ... Malaspina, David; Ergun, Robert; Bolton, Mary; Kien, Mark; Summers, David; Stevens, Ken; Yehle, Alan; Karlsson, Magnus; Hoxie, Vaughn; Bale, Stuart; Goetz, Keith; Published by: Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics Published on: 06/2016 YEAR: 2016 DOI: 10.1002/2016JA022344 electric and magnetic fields; instrumentation; Parker Data Used; parker solar probe; signal processing; solar probe; Solar Probe Plus; Solar wind |
|
Local modulation and trapping of energetic particles by coherent magnetic structures Tessein, Jeffrey; Ruffolo, David; Matthaeus, William; Wan, Minping; Published by: \grl Published on: 04/2016 YEAR: 2016 DOI: 10.1002/2016GL068045 Parker Data Used; Solar wind; turbulence; Energetic particles; intermittency; magnetic fields |
|
SOLAR WIND COLLISIONAL AGE FROM A GLOBAL MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS SIMULATION Simple estimates of the number of Coulomb collisions experienced by the interplanetary plasma to the point of observation, I.e., the \textquotedblleftcollisional age\textquotedblright, can be usefully employed in the study of non-thermal features of the solar wind. Usually these estimates are based on local plasma properties at the point of observation. Here we improve the method of estimation of the collisional age by employing solutions obtained from global three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics simulations. This enable ... Chhiber, R; Usmanov, AV; Matthaeus, WH; Goldstein, ML; Published by: The Astrophysical Journal Published on: 04/2016 YEAR: 2016 DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/821/1/34 magnetohydrodynamics: MHD; methods: numerical; parker solar probe; plasmas; scattering; Solar Probe Plus; Solar wind; turbulence |
|
Usmanov, Arcadi; Goldstein, Melvyn; Matthaeus, William; Published by: \apj Published on: 03/2016 YEAR: 2016 DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/820/1/17 Parker Data Used; ISM: magnetic fields; magnetohydrodynamics: MHD; methods: numerical; Solar wind; Sun: heliosphere; turbulence |
|
EVOLUTION OF THE PROTON VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION DUE TO STOCHASTIC HEATING IN THE NEAR-SUN SOLAR WIND We investigate how the proton distribution function evolves when the protons undergo stochastic heating by strong, low-frequency, Alfv\ en-wave turbulence under the assumption that β is small. We apply our analysis to protons undergoing stochastic heating in the supersonic fast solar wind and obtain proton distributions at heliocentric distances ranging from 4 to 30 solar radii. We find that the proton distribution develops non-Gaussian structure with a flat core and steep tail. For r\gt 5 RS, the proton distr ... Klein, Kristopher; Chandran, Benjamin; Published by: The Astrophysical Journal Published on: 03/2016 YEAR: 2016 DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/820/1/47 Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics; parker solar probe; Physics - Plasma Physics; plasmas; Solar Probe Plus; Solar wind; turbulence; waves |
|
The Wide-Field Imager for Solar Probe Plus (WISPR) Vourlidas, Angelos; Howard, Russell; Plunkett, Simon; Korendyke, Clarence; Thernisien, Arnaud; Wang, Dennis; Rich, Nathan; Carter, Michael; Chua, Damien; Socker, Dennis; Linton, Mark; Morrill, Jeff; Lynch, Sean; Thurn, Adam; Van Duyne, Peter; Hagood, Robert; Clifford, Greg; Grey, Phares; Velli, Marco; Liewer, Paulett; Hall, Jeffrey; DeJong, Eric; Mikic, Zoran; Rochus, Pierre; Mazy, Emanuel; Bothmer, Volker; Rodmann, Jens; Published by: Space Science Reviews Published on: 02/2015 YEAR: 2016 DOI: 10.1007/s11214-014-0114-y Heliospheric imager; Imaging; Parker Data Used; Solar corona; Solar Probe Plus; Solar wind; Thomson scattering |
| 2015 |
|
Knowledge of the electron density distribution in the solar corona put constraints on the magnetic field configurations for coronal modeling and on initial conditions for solar wind modeling. We work with polarized SOHO/LASCO-C2 images from the last two recent minima of solar activity (1996-1997 and 2008-2010), devoid of coronal mass ejections. The goals are to derive the 4D electron density distributions in the corona by applying a newly developed time-dependent tomographic reconstruction method and to compare the result ... de Patoul, Judith; Foullon, Claire; Riley, Pete; Published by: The Astrophysical Journal Published on: 11/2015 YEAR: 2015 DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/814/1/68 Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics; parker solar probe; Solar Probe Plus; Solar wind; Sun: corona; Sun: evolution; Sun: fundamental parameters; Sun: rotation |
|
Transition from Kinetic to MHD Behavior in a Collisionless Plasma Parashar, Tulasi; Matthaeus, William; Shay, Michael; Wan, Minping; Published by: \apj Published on: 10/2015 YEAR: 2015 DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/811/2/112 Parker Data Used; magnetohydrodynamics: MHD; plasmas; Solar wind; turbulence |
|
ION-SCALE TURBULENCE IN THE INNER HELIOSPHERE: RADIAL DEPENDENCE The evolution of the ion-scale plasma turbulence in the inner heliosphere is studied by associating the plasma parameters for hybrid-code turbulence simulations to the radial distance from the Sun via a Solar wind model based mapping procedure. Using a mapping based on a one-dimensional solar wind expansion model, the resulting ion-kinetic scale turbulence is related to the solar wind distance from the Sun. For this purpose the mapping is carried out for various values of ion beta that correspond to the heliocentric dista ... Comişel, H.; Motschmann, U.; üchner, J.; Narita, Y.; Nariyuki, Y.; Published by: The Astrophysical Journal Published on: 10/2015 YEAR: 2015 DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/812/2/175 parker solar probe; plasmas; Solar Probe Plus; Solar wind; turbulence; waves |
