SH036-0016
Italian Solar Orbiter-SWA Working Group on “Multiscale Physics”
Monday, 14 December 2020
Poster
Raffaella D'Amicis1, Tommaso Alberti2, Roberto Bruno1, Francesco Califano3, Giuseppina Carnevale4, Filomena Catapano5, Silvio Sergio Cerri6, Igino Coco7, Luca Del Zanna8, Rossana De Marco1, Simone Di Matteo9, Luca Franci10, Antonella Greco11, Vamsee Krishna Jagarlamudi12, Simone Landi8, Fabio Lepreti13, Francesco Malara11, Maria Federica Marcucci2, Raffaele Marino14, Lorenzo Matteini15, Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla16, Giuseppina Nigro13, Giuseppe Nisticò13, Emanuele Papini8, Francesco Pecora17, Silvia Perri11, Oreste Pezzi18, Denise Perrone19, Leonardo Primavera11, Enkelejda Qamili5, Alessandro Retino20, Sergio Servidio17, Luca Sorriso-Valvo21, Maria Elena Innocenti22, Daniele Telloni23, Anna Tenerani24, Lorenzo Trenchi5, Francesco Valentini11, Marco C M Velli25, Pierluigi Veltri11, Andrea Verdini8, Umberto Villante4 and Gaetano Zimbardo11, (1)INAF-IAPS, Rome, Italy, (2)INAF - IAPS, Rome, Italy, (3)University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, (4)University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy, (5)Serco for ESA, Frascati, Italy, (6)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (7)INGV, Roma, Italy, (8)University of Florence, Florence, Italy, (9)Catholic University of America, Washington, United States, (10)Queen Mary University of London, School of Physics and Astronomy, London, United Kingdom, (11)University of Calabria, Calabria, Italy, (12)LPC2E, CNRS and University of Orléans, Orléans, France, (13)University of Calabria, Rende, Italy, (14)CNRS, École Centrale de Lyon, Lyon, France, (15)Imperial College London, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom, (16)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (17)Università della Calabria, Department of Physics, Rende, Italy, (18)Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila, Italy, (19)ASI, Rome, Italy, (20)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, Palaiseau, France, (21)ISTP-CNR, Bari, Italy, (22)University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, (23)INAF-OATO, Turin, Italy, (24)University of Texas, Austin, TX, United States, (25)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Abstract:
Despite more than a half-century of study, the basic physical processes responsible for heating and accelerating the solar wind are still not fully understood. These phenomena are at the center of a hot debate that is of great interest for the Solar Orbiter mission (as discussed in details in the Science Activity Plan, SAP) and are strictly linked to the turbulent nature of solar wind fluctuations which cover an extended range of spatial and temporal scales. So the identification of these physical processes is of primary importance for understanding the origins and evolution of the solar wind and its impact on the different bodies of the solar system. Moreover, in a broader context, it would allow also to achieve significant progress in our understanding of stellar astrophysics.
Within this context, the Italian Solar Orbiter-SWA Working Group (WGs) on ‘Multiscale Physics’ was created in response to the interest manifested by scientists from several Italian and international institutions on some important topics such as radial evolution of turbulence and Alfvénicity and link between fluid and kinetic scales; solar wind origin; reconnection, intermittency and particle acceleration in the turbulent solar wind (just to cite some of them), with a particular attention to the synergies with other in-situ and remote sensing instruments on board Solar Orbiter and also with other ESA and NASA missions (e.g. L1 observatories and Parker Solar Probe). The ‘Multiscale Physics’ WG involves scientists with an extensive experience in solar wind turbulence and reconnection processes including expertise in data analysis, simulations and modeling.
In this contribution, we present the activity developed so far with a particular focus on the scientific cases identified.
