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Using data from orbits one to eleven of the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) mission, the magnetic field spectral index was measured across a range of heliocentric distances. The previously observed transition between a value of $-5/3$ far from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-11 J. R. McIntyre , C. H. K. Chen , A. Larosa

The mixture/interaction of anti-sunward-propagating Alfv\'enic fluctuations (AFs) and sunward-propagating Alfv\'enic fluctuations (SAFs) is believed to result in the decrease of the Alfv\'enicity of solar wind fluctuations with increasing…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-06-13 H. Li , C. Wang , J. W. Belcher , J. S. He , J. D. Richardson

Observations at 1 au have confirmed that enhancements in measured energetic particle fluxes are statistically associated with "rough" magnetic fields, i.e., fields having atypically large spatial derivatives or increments, as measured by…

Observations from Parker Solar Probe's first five orbits are used to investigate the helioradial evolution of probability density functions (PDFs) of fluctuations of magnetic field components, between \(\sim 28\) - 200 \(\rs\).…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-09 Rohit Chhiber

Magnetic field fluctuations in the solar wind are commonly observed to follow a power law spectrum. Near proton-kinetic scales, a spectral break occurs which is commonly interpreted as a transition to kinetic turbulence. However, this…

Measurements and simulations of inertial compressive turbulence in the solar wind are characterized by anti-correlated magnetic fluctuations parallel to the mean field and density structures. This signature has been interpreted as…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Trevor A. Bowen , Samuel Badman , Petr Hellinger , Stuart D. Bale

We study intermittency as a departure from self-similarity of the solar wind magnetic turbulence and investigate the evolution with the heliocentric distance and latitude. We use data from the Ulysses spacecraft measured during two solar…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Anna Wawrzaszek , Marius Echim , Wiesław M. Macek , Roberto Bruno

A well-known property of solar wind plasma turbulence is the observed anisotropy of the autocorrelations, or equivalently the spectra, of velocity and magnetic field fluctuations. Here we explore the related but apparently not well-studied…

Observations of the young solar wind by the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) mission reveal the existence of intense plasma wave bursts with frequencies between $0.05$ -- $0.20 f_\mathrm{ce}$ (tens of Hz up to ${\sim}300$ Hz) in the spacecraft…

The scaling of magnetic fluctuations provides crucial information for the understanding of solar wind turbulence. However, the observed magnetic fluctuations contain not only turbulence but also magnetic structures, leading to the violation…

Space Physics · Physics 2023-04-26 Honghong Wu , Jiansen He , Shiyong Huang , Liping Yang , Xin Wang , Zhigang Yuan

The fast solar wind shows a wide spectrum of transverse magnetic and velocity field perturbations. These perturbations are strongly correlated in the sense of Alfv\'en waves propagating mostly outward, from the Sun to the interplanetary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-12 Réville Victor , Tenerani Anna , Velli Marco

At the electron scales the power spectrum of solar-wind magnetic fluctuations can be highly variable and the dissipation mechanisms of the magnetic energy into the various particle species is under debate. In this paper we investigate data…

We analyse the signature and origin of transient structures embedded in the slow solar wind, and observed by the Wide-Field Imager for Parker Solar Probe (WISPR) during its first ten passages close to the Sun. WISPR provides a new in-depth…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-13 Nicolas Poirier , Victor Réville , Alexis P. Rouillard , Athanasios Kouloumvakos , Emeline Valette

High time-resolution solar wind magnetic field data is employed to study statistics describing intermittency near the first perihelion (~35.6 Rs) of the Parker Solar Probe mission. A merged dataset employing two instruments on the FIELDS…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Rohit Chhiber , William H. Matthaeus , Trevor A. Bowen , Stuart D. Bale

An accurate assessment of the Sun's angular momentum (AM) loss rate is an independent constraint for models that describe the rotation evolution of Sun-like stars. In-situ measurements of the solar wind taken by Parker Solar Probe (PSP), at…

The origins and properties of large amplitude whistler wave packets in the solar wind are still unclear. In this Letter we utilise single spacecraft electric and magnetic field waveform measurements from the ARTEMIS mission to calculate the…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-09-23 D. Stansby , T. S. Horbury , C. H. K. Chen , L. Matteini

The Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons experiment on the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) mission measures the three-dimensional electron velocity distribution function. We derive the parameters of the core, halo, and strahl populations…

We have developed a new automated small-scale magnetic flux rope (SSMFR) detection algorithm based on the Grad-Shafranov (GS) reconstruction technique. We have applied this detection algorithm to the Wind spacecraft in-situ measurements…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 Qiang Hu , Jinlei Zheng , Yu Chen , Jakobus le Roux , Lulu Zhao

The solar corona and young solar wind may be characterized by critical surfaces -- the sonic, Alfv\'en, and first plasma-$\beta$ unity surfaces -- that demarcate regions where the solar wind flow undergoes certain crucial transformations.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 Rohit Chhiber , Arcadi V. Usmanov , William H. Matthaeus , Melvyn L. Goldstein

The Parker Solar Probe (PSP) provides us the unprecedentedly close approach observation to the Sun, and hence the possibility of directly understanding the "elementary process" which occurs in the kinetic scale of particles collective…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-30 Ling Chen , Bing Ma , Dejin Wu , Xiaowei Zhou , Marc Pulupa , PeiJin Zhang , Pietro Zucca , Stuart D. Bale , Justin C. Kasper , SuPing Duan