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 …

Slow solar wind: observations and modeling

L Abbo, L Ofman, SK Antiochos, VH Hansteen… - Space Science …, 2016 - Springer
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 …

Recurrent solar density transients in the slow wind observed with the Metis coronagraph

R Ventura, E Antonucci, C Downs, P Romano… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Aims We aim to investigate and characterize the morphology and dynamics of small-scale
coronal plasma density inhomogeneities detected as brighter, denser features propagating …

On the nature of the solar wind from coronal pseudostreamers

YM Wang, R Grappin, E Robbrecht… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Coronal pseudostreamers, which separate like-polarity coronal holes, do not have current
sheet extensions, unlike the familiar helmet streamers that separate opposite-polarity holes …

Connecting the low to the high corona: A method to isolate transients in STEREO/COR1 images

N Alzate, H Morgan, N Viall… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a method that isolates time-varying components from coronagraph and extreme
ultraviolet images, allowing substreamer transients propagating within streamers to be …

Coronal pseudo-streamer and bipolar streamer observed by SOHO/UVCS in March 2008

L Abbo, R Lionello, P Riley, YM Wang - Solar Physics, 2015 - Springer
The past solar minimum is characterized by several peculiar aspects and by a complex
magnetic topology with two different types of coronal streamers: pseudo-streamers and …

Measuring temperature-dependent propagating disturbances in coronal fan loops using multiple SDO/AIA channels and the surfing transform technique

VM Uritsky, JM Davila, NM Viall… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT A set of co-aligned high-resolution images from the Atmospheric Imaging
Assembly (AIA) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory is used to investigate propagating …

Properties of streamer wave events observed during the STEREO era

B Decraemer, AN Zhukov… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Transverse waves are sometimes observed in solar helmet streamers, typically after the
passage of a coronal mass ejection (CME). The CME-driven shock wave moves the …

Connecting the Low to High Corona: Propagating Disturbances as Tracers of the Near-Sun Solar Wind

N Alzate, S Di Matteo, H Morgan, N Viall… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We revisit a quiet 14 day period of solar minimum during 2008 January and track
substreamer propagating disturbances (PDs) from low heights in STEREO/EUVI to the …

Faraday rotation fluctuations of MESSENGER radio signals through the equatorial lower corona near solar minimum

DB Wexler, EA Jensen, JV Hollweg, C Heiles… - Space …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Faraday rotation (FR) of transcoronal radio transmissions from spacecraft near superior
conjunction enables study of the temporal variations in coronal plasma density, velocity, and …