HelioSwarm: A Multipoint, Multiscale Mission to Characterize Turbulence
Abstract
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 plasma turbulence, a ubiquitous process occurring in the heliosphere and in plasmas throughout the universe. This will be accomplished by making simultaneous measurements at nine spacecraft with separations spanning magnetohydrodynamic and sub-ion spatial scales in a variety of near-Earth plasmas. In this paper, we describe the scientific background for the HS investigation, the mission goals and objectives, the observatory reference trajectory and instrumentation implementation before the start of Phase B. Through multipoint, multiscale measurements, HS promises to reveal how energy is transferred across scales and boundaries in plasmas throughout the universe.
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@article{arxiv.2306.06537,
title = {HelioSwarm: A Multipoint, Multiscale Mission to Characterize Turbulence},
author = {Kristopher G. Klein and Harlan Spence and Olga Alexandrova and Matthew Argall and Lev Arzamasskiy and Jay Bookbinder and Theodore Broeren and Damiano Caprioli and Anthony Case and Benjamin Chandran and Li-Jen Chen and Ivan Dors and Jonathan Eastwood and Colin Forsyth and Antoinette Galvin and Vincent Genot and Jasper Halekas and Michael Hesse and Butler Hine and Tim Horbury and Lan Jian and Justin Kasper and Matthieu Kretzschmar and Matthew Kunz and Benoit Lavraud and Olivier Le Contel and Alfred Mallet and Bennett Maruca and William Matthaeus and Jonathan Niehof and Helen O'Brian and Christopher Owen and Alessandro Retino and Christopher Reynolds and Owen Roberts and Alexander Schekochihin and Ruth Skoug and Charles Smith and Sonya Smith and John Steinberg and Michael Stevens and Adam Szabo and Jason TenBarge and Roy Torbert and Bernard Vasquez and Daniel Verscharen and Phyllis Whittlesey and Brittany Wickizer and Gary Zank and Ellen Zweibel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.06537},
year = {2023}
}
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