Enabling Unprecedented Exploration of Kinetic Plasma Phenomena: Utilizing and Reaching Beyond the MMS FPI Breakthrough
Whitepaper #368 in the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033. Main topics: basic research. Additional topics: planetary magnetospheres; fundamental space plasma theory; space-based missions/projects.
by Jason Shuster, Daniel Gershman, Naoki Bessho, Shan Wang, Vadim Uritsky, Li-Jen Chen, Harsha Gurram, A. Surjalal Sharma, John Dorelli, James Burch, James Webster, Steven Schwartz, Richard Denton, Paul Cassak, Julia Stawarz, Jonathan Ng, William Paterson, Conrad Schiff, Adolfo Viñas, Levon Avanov, Yi-Hsin Liu, Tak Chu Li, Matthew Argall, Roy Torbert, Arya Afshari, Dominic Payne, Charles Farrugia, Kevin Genestreti, Jaye Verniero, Frederick Wilder, Daniel da Silva, and Colby Haggerty
Published onJul 31, 2023
Enabling Unprecedented Exploration of Kinetic Plasma Phenomena: Utilizing and Reaching Beyond the MMS FPI Breakthrough
The spectrometer suites onboard NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission offered us an unexpected breakthrough in measurement capability that no spacecraft or laboratory experiment has achieved previously: the ingeniously engineered FPI dual ion and electron spectrometers enable direct measurement of terms in the Vlasov equation for the first time in the history of plasma physics research.
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