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Coronal Heating Rate in the Slow Solar Wind
Daniele Telloni, Marco Romoli, Marco Velli +59
This Letter reports the first observational estimate of the heating rate in the slowly expanding solar corona. The analysis exploits the simultaneous remote and local observations…
Physics-driven machine learning for the prediction of coronal mass ejections' travel times
Sabrina Guastavino, Valentina Candiani, Alessandro Bemporad +7
Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) correspond to dramatic expulsions of plasma and magnetic field from the solar corona into the heliosphere. CMEs are scientifically relevant because th…
Does Turbulence along the Coronal Current Sheet Drive Ion Cyclotron Waves?
Daniele Telloni, Gary P. Zank, Laxman Adhikari +32
Evidence for the presence of ion cyclotron waves, driven by turbulence, at the boundaries of the current sheet is reported in this paper. By exploiting the full potential of the jo…
Slow wind belt in the quiet solar corona
E. Antonucci, C. Downs, G. E. Capuano +16
The slow solar wind belt in the quiet corona, observed with the Metis coronagraph on board Solar Orbiter on May 15, 2020, during the activity minimum of the cycle 24, in a field of…
In-flight validation of Metis Visible-light Polarimeter Coronagraph on board Solar Orbiter
A. Liberatore, S. Fineschi, M. Casti +21
Context. The Metis coronagraph is one of the remote-sensing instruments of the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter mission. Metis is aimed at the study of the solar atmosphere and solar wind by…
Solaris: A Focused Solar Polar Discovery-class Mission to achieve the Highest Priority Heliophysics Science Now
Donald M. Hassler, Sarah E Gibson, Jeffrey S Newmark +33
Solaris is a transformative Solar Polar Discovery-class mission concept to address crucial outstanding questions that can only be answered from a polar vantage. Solaris will image…
Connecting Solar Orbiter remote-sensing observations and Parker Solar Probe in-situ measurements with a numerical MHD reconstruction of the Parker spiral
Ruggero Biondo, Alessandro Bemporad, Paolo Pagano +21
As a key feature, NASA's Parker Solar Probe (PSP) and ESA-NASA's Solar Orbiter (SO) missions cooperate to trace solar wind and transients from their sources on the Sun to the inner…
Observation of Magnetic Switchback in the Solar Corona
Daniele Telloni, Gary P. Zank, Marco Stangalini +49
Switchbacks are sudden, large radial deflections of the solar wind magnetic field, widely revealed in interplanetary space by the Parker Solar Probe. The switchbacks' formation mec…
A Coronal Mass Ejection followed by a prominence eruption and a plasma blob as observed by Solar Orbiter
A. Bemporad, V. Andretta, R. Susino +26
On February 12, 2021 two subsequent eruptions occurred above the West limb, as seen along the Sun-Earth line. The first event was a typical slow Coronal Mass Ejection (CME), follow…
Sky Brightness evaluation at Concordia Station - Dome C, Antarctica for ground-based observations of the Solar Corona
Alessandro Liberatore, Gerardo Capobianco, Silvano Fineschi +4
The evaluation of sky characteristics plays a fundamental role for many astrophysical experiments and ground-based observations. In solar physics, the main requirement for such obs…
Exploring the Solar Wind from its Source on the Corona into the Inner Heliosphere during the First Solar Orbiter - Parker Solar Probe Quadrature
Daniele Telloni, Vincenzo Andretta, Ester Antonucci +68
This Letter addresses the first Solar Orbiter (SO) -- Parker Solar Probe (PSP) quadrature, occurring on January 18, 2021, to investigate the evolution of solar wind from the extend…
First light observations of the solar wind in the outer corona with the Metis coronagraph
M. Romoli, E. Antonucci, V. Andretta +65
The investigation of the wind in the solar corona initiated with the observations of the resonantly scattered UV emission of the coronal plasma obtained with UVCS-SOHO, designed to…
A journey of exploration to the polar regions of a star: probing the solar poles and the heliosphere from high helio-latitude
Louise Harra, Vincenzo Andretta, Thierry Appourchaux +29
A mission to view the solar poles from high helio-latitudes (above 60) will build on the experience of Solar Orbiter as well as a long heritage of successful solar missions…
Cosmic-ray flux predictions and observations for and with Metis on board Solar Orbiter
C. Grimani, V. Andretta, P. Chioetto +41
The Metis coronagraph is one of the remote sensing instruments hosted on board the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter mission. Metis is devoted to carry out the first simultaneous imaging of t…
SWELTO -- Space WEather Laboratory in Turin Observatory
A. Bemporad, L. Abbo, D. Barghini +20
SWELTO -- Space WEather Laboratory in Turin Observatory is a conceptual framework where new ideas for the analysis of space-based and ground-based data are developed and tested. Th…
The Solar Orbiter Science Activity Plan: translating solar and heliospheric physics questions into action
I. Zouganelis, A. De Groof, A. P. Walsh +182
Solar Orbiter is the first space mission observing the solar plasma both in situ and remotely, from a close distance, in and out of the ecliptic. The ultimate goal is to understand…
On the Possibilities of Detecting Helium D Line Polarization with Metis
Petr Heinzel, Jiří Štěpán, Alessandro Bemporad +4
Space coronagraph Metis on board of the Solar Orbiter offers us new capabilities for studying eruptive prominences and coronal mass ejections (CME). Its two spectral channels, hydr…
Metis: the Solar Orbiter visible light and ultraviolet coronal imager
Ester Antonucci, Marco Romoli, Vincenzo Andretta +100
Metis is the first solar coronagraph designed for a space mission capable of performing simultaneous imaging of the off-limb solar corona in both visible and UV light. The observat…
Measuring coronal magnetic fields with remote sensing observations of shock waves
Alessandro Bemporad, Roberto Susino, Federica Frassati +1
Recent works demonstrated that remote sensing observations of shock waves propagating into the corona and associated with major solar eruptions can be used to derive the strength o…
Diagnostics of Coronal Magnetic Fields Through the Hanle Effect in UV and IR Lines
N. E. Raouafi, P. Riley, S. Gibson +2
The plasma thermodynamics in the solar upper atmosphere, particularly in the corona, are dominated by the magnetic field, which controls the flow and dissipation of energy. The rel…
LEMUR: Large European Module for solar Ultraviolet Research. European contribution to JAXA's Solar-C mission
Luca Teriaca, Vincenzo Andretta, Frédéric Auchère +39
Understanding the solar outer atmosphere requires concerted, simultaneous solar observations from the visible to the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) and soft X-rays, at high spatial resol…
Solar magnetism eXplorer (SolmeX)
H. Peter, L. Abbo, V. Andretta +36
The magnetic field plays a pivotal role in many fields of Astrophysics. This is especially true for the physics of the solar atmosphere. Measuring the magnetic field in the upper s…
POLAR Investigation of the Sun - POLARIS
T. Appourchaux, P. Liewer, M. Watt +34
The POLAR Investigation of the Sun (POLARIS) mission uses a combination of a gravity assist and solar sail propulsion to place a spacecraft in a 0.48 AU circular orbit around the S…
Origins of the slow and the ubiquitous fast solar wind
S. R. Habbal, R. Woo, S. Fineschi +4
We present in this Letter the first coordinated radio occultation measurements and ultraviolet observations of the inner corona below 5.5 Rs, obtained during the Galileo solar conj…