An Experimental Plasma Dynamo Program for Investigations of Fundamental Processes in Heliophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
2011-01-04 v1 Plasma Physics
Space Physics
Abstract
Plasma experiments in laboratory settings offer unique opportunities to address fundamental aspects of the solar dynamo and magnetism in the solar atmosphere. We argue here that ground-based laboratory experiments have direct connections to NASA based missions and NSF programs, and that a small investment in laboratory heliophysics may have a high payoff. We advocate for broad involvement in community-scale plasma experiments.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1101.0176,
title = {An Experimental Plasma Dynamo Program for Investigations of Fundamental Processes in Heliophysics},
author = {Benjamin Brown and Cary Forest and Mark Nornberg and Ellen Zweibel and Fausto Cattaneo and Steven Cowley},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.0176},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
6 pages, science white paper submitted to the 2013-2022 Decadal Survey in Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics)