SH002
Advances in Understanding the Innermost Heliosphere
Advances in Understanding the Innermost Heliosphere
Session ID#: 251020
Session Description:
Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed three of its closest solar encounters tracing its primary science orbit down to a height of 9.86 solar radii from the center of the Sun. Observations from these orbits have opened up new investigations into the acceleration and heating of the solar wind and coronal plasma, acceleration and transport of energetic particles, and early stages of solar wind transients. They have also revealed processes governing the innermost regions of the Heliosphere explored to date below the Alfvénic critical point, crucial to the understanding of the evolution of the Sun’s extended atmosphere. This session aims to showcase these newest observations and discuss their implications of our understanding of our star, its atmosphere, and consequences to space weather at Earth and beyond.
Index Terms:
7509 Corona [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7514 Energetic particles [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7836 MHD waves and instabilities [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
7846 Plasma energization [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
Primary Convener: Kristoff W Paulson, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, United States; Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, United States
Conveners: Tatiana Niembro Hernandez, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, United States; Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, United States and Adam Szabo, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
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