Next Generation Machine to Study Heliophysics in the Laboratory
Whitepaper #099 in the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033. Main topics: basic research; infrastructure/workforce/other programmatic. Additional topics: ground-based missions/projects; laboratory space plasma physics; research tools and […]
by Seth Dorfman, Emily Lichko, Joseph Olson, James Juno, Evdokiya Kostadinova, David Schaffner, Mel Abler, Saikat Chakraborty Thakur, Peter Heuer, Alfred Mallet, Feiyu Li, Gregory G. Howes, Jonathan Squire, Douglass Endrizzi, Rachel Young, Derek Schaeffer, Kristopher Klein, Rachael Filwett, Yeimy Rivera, Silvina Guidoni, Arian Timm, Jason TenBarge, Lorin Matthews, Lev Arzamasskiy, Tiger Du, Luca Comisso, Florian Effenberg, Dan Fries, Peiyun Shi, Jaye Verniero, Leon Ofman, Romain Meyrand, Kimberly Moreland, Liang Wang, Subash Adhikari, Vincent Ledvina, Steven Cranmer, Chuanfei Dong, Chris Gilly, Hossein Ghadjari, Shetye Juie, Christopher Light, Ranadeep Sarkar, Yi-Hsin Liu, Marc Swisdak, Benjamin J. Lynch, Anwesha Maharana, Xiangrong Fu, James Wanliss, Pankaj Kumar, Anshu Kumari, and Luis Preisser
Published onJul 31, 2023
Next Generation Machine to Study Heliophysics in the Laboratory
How the solar wind is accelerated, heated, and driven turbulent is among the most important open questions in Heliophysics, but hard to address using spacecraft missions and numerical simulations alone. To complement these approaches, it is important to build a laboratory Solar Wind Machine to isolate, control, and diagnose plasma phenomena responsible for the complex solar wind behavior.
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