Spectroscopy in the Middle Corona: Probing the Kinetic Processes in the Nascent Solar Wind and Solar Energetic Particle Production
Whitepaper #212 in the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033. Main topics: basic research. Additional topics: inner heliosphere; solar physics.
by Yuan-Kuen Ko, Benjamin D. G. Chandran, Steven R. Cranmer, Craig E. DeForest, Larry Gardner, J. Martin Laming, Mari Paz Miralles, Leon Ofman, Elena Provornikova, Nour E. Raouafi, John C. Raymond, Yeimy J. Rivera, Daniel B. Seaton, Leonard Strachan, Samuel Tun Beltran, Marco Velli, Angelos Vourlidas, Micah Weberg, Matthew West, and Maurice Wilson
Published onJul 31, 2023
Spectroscopy in the Middle Corona: Probing the Kinetic Processes in the Nascent Solar Wind and Solar Energetic Particle Production
Spectroscopic observations in the Middle Corona enable us to probe into the underlying kinetic processes at work and provide powerful diagnostic capabilities for understanding how the solar wind is heated and accelerated, how a CME interacts with the corona to obtain its characters, and how and when a CME develops a shock that accelerates the ambient solar wind to SEPs.
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