# PSP Bibliography

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Measures of Scale-dependent Alfv\ enicity in the First PSP Solar Encounter

 Author Parashar, T.; Goldstein, M.; Maruca, B.; Matthaeus, W.; Ruffolo, D.; Bandyopadhyay, R.; Chhiber, R.; Chasapis, A.; Qudsi, R.; Vech, D.; Roberts, D.; Bale, S.; Bonnell, J.; de Wit, Dudok; Goetz, K.; Harvey, P.; MacDowall, R.; Malaspina, D.; Pulupa, M.; Kasper, J.; Korreck, K.; Case, A.; Stevens, M.; Whittlesey, P.; Larson, D.; Livi, R.; Velli, M.; Raouafi, N.; Keywords Parker Data Used; parker solar probe; Solar Probe Plus Abstract The solar wind shows periods of highly Alfv\ enic activity, where velocity fluctuations and magnetic fluctuations are aligned or antialigned with each other. It is generally agreed that solar wind plasma velocity and magnetic field fluctuations observed by the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) during the first encounter are mostly highly Alfv\ enic. However, quantitative measures of Alfv\ enicity are needed to understand how the characterization of these fluctuations compares with standard measures from prior missions in the inner and outer heliosphere, in fast wind and slow wind, and at high and low latitudes. To investigate this issue, we employ several measures to quantify the extent of Alfv\ enicity\textemdashthe Alfv\ en ratio rA, the normalized cross helicity σc, the normalized residual energy σr, and the cosine of angle between velocity and magnetic fluctuations cosθ\ vb\ \ cos⁡θvb . We show that despite the overall impression that the Alfv\ enicity is large in the solar wind sampled by PSP during the first encounter, during some intervals the cross helicity starts decreasing at very large scales. These length scales (often \>1000di) are well inside inertial range, and therefore, the suppression of cross helicity at these scales cannot be attributed to kinetic physics. This drop at large scales could potentially be explained by large scale shears present in the inner heliosphere sampled by PSP. In some cases, despite the cross helicity being constant down to the noise floor, the residual energy decreases with scale in the inertial range. These results suggest that it is important to consider all these measures to quantify Alfv\ enicity. Year of Publication 2020 Journal The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series Volume 246 Number of Pages 58 Section Date Published 02/2020 ISBN URL https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ab64e6 DOI 10.3847/1538-4365/ab64e6