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 …

HelioSwarm: a multipoint, multiscale mission to characterize turbulence

KG Klein, H Spence, O Alexandrova, M Argall… - Space Science …, 2023 - Springer
HelioSwarm (HS) is a NASA Medium-Class Explorer mission of the Heliophysics Division
designed to explore the dynamic three-dimensional mechanisms controlling the physics of …

Magnetic field intermittency in the solar wind: Parker solar probe and SolO observations ranging from the alfvén region up to 1 AU

N Sioulas, Z Huang, M Velli, R Chhiber… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Parker Solar Probe (PSP) and SolO data are utilized to investigate magnetic field
intermittency in the solar wind (SW). Small-scale intermittency (20− 100 di) is observed to …

Intermittency in the expanding solar wind: Observations from parker solar probe (0.16 au), helios 1 (0.3–1 au), and voyager 1 (1–10 au)

ME Cuesta, TN Parashar, R Chhiber… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We examine statistics of magnetic-field vector components to explore how intermittency
evolves from near-Sun plasma to radial distances as large as 10 au. Statistics entering the …

Mediation of collisionless turbulent dissipation through cyclotron resonance

TA Bowen, SD Bale, BDG Chandran, A Chasapis… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The dissipation of turbulence in astrophysical systems is fundamental to energy transfer and
heating in environments ranging from the solar wind and corona to accretion disks and the …

The radial variation of the solar wind turbulence spectra near the kinetic break scale from Parker Solar Probe measurements

S Lotz, AE Nel, RT Wicks, OW Roberts… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In this study we examine the radial dependence of the inertial and dissipation range indices,
as well as the spectral break separating the inertial and dissipation range in power density …

Higher-order turbulence statistics in the sub-alfvénic solar wind observed by parker solar probe

J Zhang, SY Huang, ZG Yuan, K Jiang… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Parker Solar Probe has been the first spacecraft to enter the deep corona below the
Alfvén critical point. Here we examine the higher-order statistical properties of magnetic-field …

Applying the horizontal visibility graph method to study irreversibility of electromagnetic turbulence in non-thermal plasmas

B Acosta-Tripailao, D Pastén, PS Moya - Entropy, 2021 - mdpi.com
One of the fundamental open questions in plasma physics is the role of non-thermal
particles distributions in poorly collisional plasma environments, a system that is commonly …

Lagrangian perspectives on the small-scale structure of Alfvénic turbulence and stochastic models for the dispersion of fluid particles and magnetic field lines in the …

NH Bian, G Li - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Lagrangian perspectives on the small-scale structure of anisotropic Alfvénic turbulence are
adopted. We are interested in relating the statistical properties of the Eulerian field …

Kinetic-scale current sheets in near-sun solar wind: properties, scale-dependent features and reconnection onset

AB Lotekar, IY Vasko, T Phan, SD Bale… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present statistical analysis of 11,200 proton kinetic-scale current sheets (CS) observed
by the Parker Solar Probe during 10 days around the first perihelion. The CS thickness λ is …