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The first computation of the compressible energy transfer rate from $\sim$ 0.2 AU up to $\sim$ 1.7 AU is obtained using PSP, THEMIS and MAVEN observations. The compressible energy cascade rate $\varepsilon_C$ is computed for hundred of…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 N. Andrés , F. Sahraoui , L. Z. Hadid , S. Y. Huang , N. Romanelli , S. Galtier , G. DiBraccio , J. Halekas

Context. The presence of a magnetic guide field induces several types of anisotropy in solar wind turbulence. The energy cascade rate between scales in the inertial range depends strongly on the direction of this magnetic guide field,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 N. Andrés , F. Sahraoui , Huang , L. Z. Hadid , S. Galtier

Observation of Interplanetary Scintillation (IPS) provides an important and effective way to study the solar wind and the space weather. A series of IPS observations were conducted by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 Li-Jia Liu , Bo Peng , Lei Yu , Bin Liu , Ji-Guang Lu , Ye-Zhao Yu , Hong-Wei Xi , Ming Xiong , O. Chang

Analysis of the Interball-1 spacecraft data (1995-2000) has shown that the solar wind ion flux sometimes increases or decreases abruptly by more than 20% over a time period of several seconds or minutes. Typically, the amplitude of such…

Space Physics · Physics 2011-02-08 Olga Khabarova , Georgy Zastenker

Action of solar wind on arbitrarily shaped interplanetary dust particle is investigated. The final relativistically covariant equation of motion of the particle contains both orbital evolution and change of particle's mass. Non-radial solar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-20 J. Klacka , J. Petrzala , P. Pastor , L. Komar

AIM: To study the variation of the angular momentum and the rotational kinetic energy of the Sun, and associated variations in the gravitational multipole moments, on a timescale of the solar cycle. METHOD: Inverting helioseismic rotational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. M. Antia , S. M. Chitre , D. O. Gough

Signatures of "evaporative" winds from exo-planets on short (hot) orbits around their host star have been observed in a number of systems. In this paper we present global AMR simulations that track the launching of the winds, their…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback , Adam Frank , Baowei Liu , Alice C. Quillen , Eric G. Blackman , Ian Dobbs-Dixon

In the declining phase of the solar cycle, when the new-polarity fields of the solar poles are strengthened by the transport of same-signed magnetic flux from lower latitudes, the polar coronal holes expand and form non-axisymmetric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Kalevi Mursula , Renata Lukianova , Lauri Holappa

Stars lose a significant amount of angular momentum between birth and death, implying that efficient processes transporting it from the core to the surface are active. Space asteroseismology delivered the interior rotation rates of more…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-29 Conny Aerts , Stephane Mathis , Tamara Rogers

The transition from subAlfv\'enic to superAlfv\'enic flow in the solar atmosphere is examined by means of Parker Solar Probe (PSP) measurements during solar encounters 8 to 14. Around 220 subAlfv\'enic periods with a duration $\ge$ 10…

We present a scalable machine learning framework for analyzing Parker Solar Probe (PSP) solar wind data using distributed processing and the quantum-inspired Kernel Density Matrices (KDM) method. The PSP dataset (2018--2024) exceeds 150 GB,…

We investigate the orientation of the magnetic field deflections in switchbacks (SB) to determine if they are characterised by a possible preferential orientation. We compute the deflection angles of the magnetic field relative to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Naïs Fargette , Benoit Lavraud , Alexis P. Rouillard , Victor Réville , Stuart D. Bale , Justin Kasper

Observational data on rotation of Ap stars suggest that the bulk of their rotation rates form a separate Maxwellian distribution with an average value 3-4 times lower than the normal star distribution. No evidences for a significant angular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Stepien

The Sun continuously expels a fraction of its own mass in the form of a steadily accelerating outflow of ionized gas called the "solar wind." The solar wind is the extension of the Sun's hot (million-degree Kelvin) outer atmosphere that is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-21 Steven R. Cranmer

We present the first statistical study of the anisotropy of the magnetic field turbulence in the solar wind between 1 and 200Hz, i.e. from proton to sub-electron scales. We consider 93 10-minute intervals of Cluster/STAFF measurements. We…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-10-18 Catherine Lacombe , Olga Alexandrova , Lorenzo Matteini

By extending our self-consistent MHD simulations for the solar wind, we study the evolution of stellar winds of solar-type stars from early main sequence stage to red giant phase. Young solar-type stars are active and the mass loss rates…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Takeru K. Suzuki

One of the key challenges in solar and heliospheric physics is to understand the acceleration of the solar wind. As a super-sonic, super-Alfv\'enic plasma flow, the solar wind carries mass, momentum, energy, and angular momentum from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-11 Daniel Verscharen , Stuart D. Bale , Marco Velli

Various remote sensing observations have been used so far to probe the turbulent properties of the solar wind. Using the recently reported density modulation indices that are derived using angular broadening observations of Crab Nebula…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 K. Sasikumar Raja , Prasad Subramanian , Madhusudan Ingale , R. Ramesh , Milan Maksimovic

Aims: We develop a method for estimating the properties of stellar winds for low-mass main-sequence stars between masses of 0.4 and 1.1 solar masses at a range of distances from the star. Methods: We use 1D thermal pressure driven…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-29 C. P. Johnstone , M. Güdel , T. Lüftinger , G. Toth , I. Brott