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The solar wind is observed to undergo substantial heating as it expands through the heliosphere, with measured temperature profiles exceeding those expected from adiabatic cooling. A plausible source of this heating is reflection-driven…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 Khurram Abbas , Jonathan Squire

As a key feature, NASA's Parker Solar Probe (PSP) and ESA-NASA's Solar Orbiter (SO) missions cooperate to trace solar wind and transients from their sources on the Sun to the inner interplanetary space. The goal of this work is to…

The Alfv\'en surface -- where the solar wind exceeds the local Alfv\'en speed as it expands into interplanetary space -- is now routinely probed by NASA's Parker Solar Probe (PSP) in the near-Sun environment. The size of the Alfv\'en…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-29 Adam J. Finley

Recent observations from Parker Solar Probe have revealed that the solar wind has a highly variable structure. How this complex behaviour is formed in the solar corona is not yet known, since it requires omnipresent fluctuations, which…

This Letter addresses the first Solar Orbiter (SO) -- Parker Solar Probe (PSP) quadrature, occurring on January 18, 2021, to investigate the evolution of solar wind from the extended corona to the inner heliosphere. Assuming ballistic…

We identify more than ten steady sub-Alfv\'enic solar wind intervals from the measurements of the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) from encounter 8 to encounter 14. An analysis of these sub-Alfv\'enic intervals reveals similar properties and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-05 Yiming Jiao , Ying D. Liu , Hao Ran , Wenshuai Cheng

Solar and stellar dynamos shed small-scale and large-scale magnetic helicity of opposite signs. However, solar wind observations and simulations have shown that some distance above the dynamo both the small-scale and large-scale magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-11 Philippe-A. Bourdin , Nishant K. Singh , Axel Brandenburg

We present evidence of hitherto undiscovered global-scale oscillations in the near-surface shear layer of the Sun. These oscillations are seen as large scale variations of radial shear in both the zonal and meridional flows relative to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Richard S. Bogart , Charles S. Baldner , Sarbani Basu , Rachel Howe , Maria Cristina Rabello Soares

Although recent research suggests a link in support of a model of switchback formation in the solar corona via interchange reconnection that is propagated outward with the solar wind and similarities in their ion composition to plasma…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-03 Emily McDougall , Bala Poduval

The Sun's magnetic fields play an important role in various solar phenomena. Solar pores are regions of intensified magnetic field strength compared to the surrounding photospheric environment, and their study can help us better understand…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-07 J. I. Campos Rozo , S. Vargas Domínguez , D. Utz , A. M. Veronig , A. Hanslmeier

The solar wind is a dynamic plasma outflow that shapes heliospheric conditions and drives space weather. Identifying its large-scale phenomena is crucial, yet the increasing volume of high-cadence Parker Solar Probe (PSP) observations poses…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 Valmir P Moraes Filho , Daniela Martin , Jasmine R. Kobayashi , Connor O'Brien , Jinsu Hong , Evangelia Samara , Joseph Gallego

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

In a previous work we analysed the white-light coronal brightness as a function of elongation and time from Wide-Field Imager (WISPR) observations on board the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) mission when PSP reached a minimum heliocentric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-23 Spiros Patsourakos , Angelos Vourlidas , Alexander Nindos

Magnetic fields in the Milky Way are present on a wide variety of sizes and strengths, influencing many processes in the Galactic ecosystem such as star formation, gas dynamics, jets, and evolution of supernova remnants or pulsar wind…

Plasma rotation plays a large role in determining the size and shape of Saturn's disc-like magnetosphere. A magnetosphere more confined to the equator in the polar regions is expected as a result of the interaction between this type of…

The recent discovery of narrow rings around minor bodies has raised many questions regarding their origin and current dynamics. Sharp ring boundaries seem indicative of shepherding moonlets, but none have been found. All rings lie close to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-17 C. Beaugé , E. Gianuzzi , N. Trógolo , A. M. Leiva , F. A. Zoppetti , M. Cerioni

We determine here peculiar motion of the Solar system, first time from the $m-z$ Hubble diagram of quasars. Observer's peculiar motion causes a systematic shift in the $m-z$ plane between sources lying along the velocity vector and those in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-14 Ashok K. Singal

In order to satisfy the symmetry between electric and magnetic fields in the source free Maxwell's equations, electric charges might have magnetic counterparts: magnetic monopoles. Many methods and techniques are proposed to search for the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-06 Jun Zhang , Ting Li

We observe the abrupt end of solar activity cycles at the Sun's equator by combining almost 140 years of observations from ground and space. These "terminator" events appear to be very closely related to the onset of magnetic activity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Scott W. McIntosh , Robert J. Leamon , Ricky Egeland , Mausumi Dikpati , Yuhong Fan , Matthias Rempel

There was an expectation that the magnetic field direction would rotate dramatically across the heliopause (HP). This rotation was used as one of the criteria to determine if Voyager 1 (V1) had crossed the HP. Recently the Voyager team…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Merav Opher , James F. Drake