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Magnetic Influences on the Solar Wind (Ph.D. Dissertation)
Lauren N. Woolsey
The steady, supersonic outflow from the Sun we call the solar wind was first posited in the 1950s and initial theories rightly linked the acceleration of the wind to the existence…
Driving Solar Spicules and Jets with Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence: Testing a Persistent Idea
Steven R. Cranmer, Lauren N. Woolsey
The solar chromosphere contains thin, highly dynamic strands of plasma known as spicules. Recently, it has been suggested that the smallest and fastest (Type II) spicules are ident…
Time-Dependent Turbulent Heating of Open Flux Tubes in the Chromosphere, Corona, and Solar Wind
Lauren N. Woolsey, Steven R. Cranmer
We investigate several key questions of plasma heating in open-field regions of the corona that connect to the solar wind. We present results for a model of Alfven-wave-driven turb…
Solar wind modeling: a computational tool for the classroom
Lauren N. Woolsey
This article presents a Python model and library that can be used for student investigation of the application of fundamental physics on a specific problem: the role of magnetic fi…
The Role of Turbulence in Coronal Heating and Solar Wind Expansion
S. R. Cranmer, M. Asgari-Targhi, M. P. Miralles +4
Plasma in the Sun's hot corona expands into the heliosphere as a supersonic and highly magnetized solar wind. This paper provides an overview of our current understanding of how th…
Turbulence-Driven Coronal Heating and Improvements to Empirical Forecasting of the Solar Wind
Lauren N. Woolsey, Steven R. Cranmer
Forecasting models of the solar wind often rely on simple parameterizations of the magnetic field that ignore the effects of the full magnetic field geometry. In this paper, we pre…
Connecting the Sun's High-Resolution Magnetic Carpet to the Turbulent Heliosphere
Steven R. Cranmer, Adriaan A. van Ballegooijen, Lauren N. Woolsey
The solar wind is connected to the Sun's atmosphere by flux tubes that are rooted in an ever-changing pattern of positive and negative magnetic polarities on the surface. Observati…