HelioSwarm: A Multipoint, Multiscale Mission to Characterize Turbulence
Whitepaper #207 in the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033. Main topics: basic research; infrastructure/workforce/other programmatic. Additional topics: fundamental space plasma theory; inner heliosphere; space-based missions/projects; […]
by Kristopher Klein, Harlan Spence, Matthew Kunz, Lev Arzamasskiy, Phyllis Whittlesey, Li-Jen Chen, Jason TenBarge, Jonathan Eastwood, Bennett A. Maruca, Damiano Caprioli, Owen Wyn Roberts, Matthieu Kretzschmar, Vincent Génot, Benoit Lavraud, Tim Horbury, Lan Jian, Jasper Halekas, William H. Matthaeus, Alexander A. Schekochihin, Olivier Le Contel, Daniel Verscharen, Alessandro Retino, Jonathan T. Niehof, Alfred Mallet, Ruth Skoug, Anthony W. Case, and Michael Stevens
Published onJul 31, 2023
HelioSwarm: A Multipoint, Multiscale Mission to Characterize Turbulence
HelioSwarm (HS), a NASA MidEx multispacecraft observatory with inter-spacecraft separations covering MHD and ion scales, will measurement the structure and dynamics of magnetized turbulence. This paper surveys turbulent systems that constitute compelling areas of heliophysics research and describes how HS will measure energy transport across scales in turbulent plasmas throughout the universe.
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