Parker Solar Probe approaches the Alfvén Point

Michael Louis Stevens1, Justin Christophe Kasper2, Anthony W Case1, Davin E Larson3, Kelly E Korreck4, Phyllis L Whittlesey5, Roberto Livi5, Keith Goetz6, Stuart D Bale7, Peter Harvey7, Robert J MacDowall8, Marc Pulupa7, John W Bonnell7, David Malaspina9, Thierry Dudok de Wit10, Kristopher G. Klein11, Kristoff Paulson12, Gregory Mark Szypko13 and Justin C. Kasper, (1)Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Smithsonian Observatory, Cambridge, MA, United States, (5)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (7)University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (8)NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (9)University of Colorado, Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)LPC2E, CNRS and University of Orléans, Orléans, France, (11)University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, AZ, United States, (12)Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, United States, (13)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States