Critical Solar Wind Measurements Required For the Next Generation Space Weather Prediction Mission: Science Motivation for the Seven Sisters Mission
Whitepaper #298 in the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033. Main topics: basic research. Additional topics: laboratory space plasma physics; space-based missions/projects; user-need-driven basic space weather research.
by Katariina Nykyri, Laxman Adhikari, Matthew Argall, Joseph Borovsky, Jeffrey Broll, Brandon Burkholder, Simon DiMatteo, Robert Wilkes Ebert, Jan Egedal, Michael Hesse, Katherine Holland, Therese Moretto Jorgensen, Shiva Kavosi, Yu-Lun Liou, Xuanye Ma, Leon Ofman, Keiichi Ogasawara, Merav Opher, Gang Kai Poh, Christopher Russell, David Sibeck, Roy Torbert, Nicholeen Viall-Kepko, Samantha Wallace, Matthew West, Frederick Wilder, and Simon Wing
Published onJul 31, 2023
Critical Solar Wind Measurements Required For the Next Generation Space Weather Prediction Mission: Science Motivation for the Seven Sisters Mission
This paper motivates new multi-point, multi-scale, critical measurements in the solar wind (SW) that are required to improve our fundamental understanding of the 3-D, large to intermediate-scale structures and processes in the SW; their azimuthal variation, radial evolution; and impact on particle acceleration, heating, and transport, thus motivating the Seven Sisters mission concept.
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