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1. Metis Observation of the Onset of Fully Developed Turbulence in the Solar Corona

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Telloni, Daniele, Sorriso-Valvo, Luca, Zank, Gary P., Velli, Marco, Andretta, Vincenzo, Perrone, Denise, Marino, Raffaele, Carbone, Francesco, Vecchio, Antonio, Adhikari, Laxman, Zhao, Lingling, Guastavino, Sabrina, Camattari, Fabiana, Shi, Chen, Sioulas, Nikos, Huang, Zesen, Romoli, Marco, Antonucci, Ester, Da Deppo, Vania, Fineschi, Silvano, Grimani, Catia, Heinzel, Petr, Moses, John D., Naletto, Giampiero, Nicolini, Gianalfredo, Spadaro, Daniele, Stangalini, Marco, Teriaca, Luca, Uslenghi, Michela, Abbo, Lucia, Auchere, Frederic, Cuadrado, Regina Aznar, Berlicki, Arkadiusz, Bruno, Roberto, Burtovoi, Aleksandr, Capobianco, Gerardo, Casini, Chiara, Casti, Marta, Chioetto, Paolo, Corso, Alain J., D'Amicis, Raffaella, De Leo, Yara, Fabi, Michele, Frassati, Federica, Frassetto, Fabio, Giordano, Silvio, Guglielmino, Salvo L., Jerse, Giovanna, Landini, Federico, Liberatore, Alessandro, Magli, Enrico, Massone, Giuseppe, Nistico, Giuseppe, Pancrazzi, Maurizio, Pelizzo, Maria G., Peter, Hardi, Plainaki, Christina, Poletto, Luca, Reale, Fabio, Romano, Paolo, Russano, Giuliana, Sasso, Clementina, Schuehle, Udo, Solanki, Sami K., Strachan, Leonard, Straus, Thomas, Susino, Roberto, Ventura, Rita, Volpicelli, Cosimo A., Woch, Joachim, Zangrilli, Luca, Zimbardo, Gaetano, Zuppella, Paola, Telloni, Daniele, Sorriso-Valvo, Luca, Zank, Gary P., Velli, Marco, Andretta, Vincenzo, Perrone, Denise, Marino, Raffaele, Carbone, Francesco, Vecchio, Antonio, Adhikari, Laxman, Zhao, Lingling, Guastavino, Sabrina, Camattari, Fabiana, Shi, Chen, Sioulas, Nikos, Huang, Zesen, Romoli, Marco, Antonucci, Ester, Da Deppo, Vania, Fineschi, Silvano, Grimani, Catia, Heinzel, Petr, Moses, John D., Naletto, Giampiero, Nicolini, Gianalfredo, Spadaro, Daniele, Stangalini, Marco, Teriaca, Luca, Uslenghi, Michela, Abbo, Lucia, Auchere, Frederic, Cuadrado, Regina Aznar, Berlicki, Arkadiusz, Bruno, Roberto, Burtovoi, Aleksandr, Capobianco, Gerardo, Casini, Chiara, Casti, Marta, Chioetto, Paolo, Corso, Alain J., D'Amicis, Raffaella, De Leo, Yara, Fabi, Michele, Frassati, Federica, Frassetto, Fabio, Giordano, Silvio, Guglielmino, Salvo L., Jerse, Giovanna, Landini, Federico, Liberatore, Alessandro, Magli, Enrico, Massone, Giuseppe, Nistico, Giuseppe, Pancrazzi, Maurizio, Pelizzo, Maria G., Peter, Hardi, Plainaki, Christina, Poletto, Luca, Reale, Fabio, Romano, Paolo, Russano, Giuliana, Sasso, Clementina, Schuehle, Udo, Solanki, Sami K., Strachan, Leonard, Straus, Thomas, Susino, Roberto, Ventura, Rita, Volpicelli, Cosimo A., Woch, Joachim, Zangrilli, Luca, Zimbardo, Gaetano, and Zuppella, Paola

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This Letter reports the first observation of the onset of fully developed turbulence in the solar corona. Long time series of white-light coronal images, acquired by Metis aboard Solar Orbiter at 2 minutes cadence and spanning about 10 hr, were studied to gain insight into the statistical properties of fluctuations in the density of the coronal plasma in the time domain. From pixel-by-pixel spectral frequency analysis in the whole Metis field of view, the scaling exponents of plasma fluctuations were derived. The results show that, over timescales ranging from 1 to 10 hr and corresponding to the photospheric mesogranulation-driven dynamics, the density spectra become shallower moving away from the Sun, resembling a Kolmogorov-like spectrum at 3 R circle dot. According to the latest observation and interpretive work, the observed 5/3 scaling law for density fluctuations is indicative of the onset of fully developed turbulence in the corona. Metis observation-based evidence for a Kolmogorov turbulent form of the fluctuating density spectrum casts light on the evolution of 2D turbulence in the early stages of its upward transport from the low corona.

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2024
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2. Particle monitoring capability of the Solar Orbiter Metis coronagraph through the increasing phase of solar cycle 25

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Grimani, Catia, Andretta, Vincenzo, Antonucci, Ester, Chioetto, Paolo, Da Deppo, Vania, Fabi, Michele, Gissot, Samuel, Jerse, Giovanna, Messerotti, Mauro, Naletto, Giampiero, Pancrazzi, Maurizio, Persici, Andrea, Plainaki, Christina, Romoli, Marco, Sabbatini, Federico, Spadaro, Daniele, Stangalini, Marco, Telloni, Daniele, Teriaca, Luca, Uslenghi, Michela, Villani, Mattia, Abbo, Lucia, Burtovoi, Aleksandr, Frassati, Federica, Landini, Federico, Nicolini, Giana, Russano, Giuliana, Sasso, Clementina, Susino, Roberto, Grimani, Catia, Andretta, Vincenzo, Antonucci, Ester, Chioetto, Paolo, Da Deppo, Vania, Fabi, Michele, Gissot, Samuel, Jerse, Giovanna, Messerotti, Mauro, Naletto, Giampiero, Pancrazzi, Maurizio, Persici, Andrea, Plainaki, Christina, Romoli, Marco, Sabbatini, Federico, Spadaro, Daniele, Stangalini, Marco, Telloni, Daniele, Teriaca, Luca, Uslenghi, Michela, Villani, Mattia, Abbo, Lucia, Burtovoi, Aleksandr, Frassati, Federica, Landini, Federico, Nicolini, Giana, Russano, Giuliana, Sasso, Clementina, and Susino, Roberto

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Context. Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) and solar particles with energies greater than tens of MeV penetrate spacecraft and instruments hosted aboard space missions. The Solar Orbiter Metis coronagraph is aimed at observing the solar corona in both visible (VL) and ultraviolet (UV) light. Particle tracks are observed in the Metis images of the corona. An algorithm has been implemented in the Metis processing electronics to detect the VL image pixels crossed by cosmic rays. This algorithm was initially enabled for the VL instrument only, since the process of separating the particle tracks in the UV images has proven to be very challenging. Aims. We study the impact of the overall bulk of particles of galactic and solar origin on the Metis coronagraph images. We discuss the effects of the increasing solar activity after the Solar Orbiter mission launch on the secondary particle production in the spacecraft. Methods. We compared Monte Carlo simulations of GCRs crossing or interacting in the Metis VL CMOS sensor to observations gathered in 2020 and 2022. We also evaluated the impact of solar energetic particle events of different intensities on the Metis images. Results. The study of the role of abundant and rare cosmic rays in firing pixels in the Metis VL images of the corona allows us to estimate the efficiency of the algorithm applied for cosmic-ray track removal from the images and to demonstrate that the instrument performance had remained unchanged during the first two years of the Solar Orbiter operations. The outcome of this work can be used to estimate the Solar Orbiter instrument's deep charging and the order of magnitude for energetic particles crossing the images of Metis and other instruments such as STIX and EUI., Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures

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2023
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3. Particle monitoring capability of the Solar Orbiter Metis coronagraph through the increasing phase of solar cycle 25

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Grimani, Catia, Andretta, Vincenzo, Antonucci, Ester, Chioetto, Paolo, Da Deppo, Vania, Fabi, Michele, Gissot, Samuel, Jerse, Giovanna, Messerotti, Mauro, Naletto, Giampiero, Pancrazzi, Maurizio, Persici, Andrea, Plainaki, Christina, Romoli, Marco, Sabbatini, Federico, Spadaro, Daniele, Stangalini, Marco, Telloni, Daniele, Teriaca, Luca, Uslenghi, Michela, Villani, Mattia, Abbo, Lucia, Burtovoi, Aleksandr, Frassati, Federica, Landini, Federico, Nicolini, Giana, Russano, Giuliana, Sasso, Clementina, Susino, Roberto, Grimani, Catia, Andretta, Vincenzo, Antonucci, Ester, Chioetto, Paolo, Da Deppo, Vania, Fabi, Michele, Gissot, Samuel, Jerse, Giovanna, Messerotti, Mauro, Naletto, Giampiero, Pancrazzi, Maurizio, Persici, Andrea, Plainaki, Christina, Romoli, Marco, Sabbatini, Federico, Spadaro, Daniele, Stangalini, Marco, Telloni, Daniele, Teriaca, Luca, Uslenghi, Michela, Villani, Mattia, Abbo, Lucia, Burtovoi, Aleksandr, Frassati, Federica, Landini, Federico, Nicolini, Giana, Russano, Giuliana, Sasso, Clementina, and Susino, Roberto

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Context. Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) and solar particles with energies greater than tens of MeV penetrate spacecraft and instruments hosted aboard space missions. The Solar Orbiter Metis coronagraph is aimed at observing the solar corona in both visible (VL) and ultraviolet (UV) light. Particle tracks are observed in the Metis images of the corona. An algorithm has been implemented in the Metis processing electronics to detect the VL image pixels crossed by cosmic rays. This algorithm was initially enabled for the VL instrument only, since the process of separating the particle tracks in the UV images has proven to be very challenging. Aims. We study the impact of the overall bulk of particles of galactic and solar origin on the Metis coronagraph images. We discuss the effects of the increasing solar activity after the Solar Orbiter mission launch on the secondary particle production in the spacecraft. Methods. We compared Monte Carlo simulations of GCRs crossing or interacting in the Metis VL CMOS sensor to observations gathered in 2020 and 2022. We also evaluated the impact of solar energetic particle events of different intensities on the Metis images. Results. The study of the role of abundant and rare cosmic rays in firing pixels in the Metis VL images of the corona allows us to estimate the efficiency of the algorithm applied for cosmic-ray track removal from the images and to demonstrate that the instrument performance had remained unchanged during the first two years of the Solar Orbiter operations. The outcome of this work can be used to estimate the Solar Orbiter instrument's deep charging and the order of magnitude for energetic particles crossing the images of Metis and other instruments such as STIX and EUI., Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures

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2023
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4. Coronal Heating Rate in the Slow Solar Wind

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Telloni, Daniele, Romoli, Marco, Velli, Marco, Zank, Gary P., Adhikari, Laxman, Downs, Cooper, Burtovoi, Aleksandr, Susino, Roberto, Spadaro, Daniele, Zhao, Lingling, Liberatore, Alessandro, Shi, Chen, De Leo, Yara, Abbo, Lucia, Frassati, Federica, Jerse, Giovanna, Landini, Federico, Nicolini, Gianalfredo, Pancrazzi, Maurizio, Russano, Giuliana, Sasso, Clementina, Andretta, Vincenzo, Da Deppo, Vania, Fineschi, Silvano, Grimani, Catia, Heinzel, Petr, Moses, John D., Naletto, Giampiero, Stangalini, Marco, Teriaca, Luca, Uslenghi, Michela, Berlicki, Arkadiusz, Bruno, Roberto, Capobianco, Gerardo, Capuano, Giuseppe E., Casini, Chiara, Casti, Marta, Chioetto, Paolo, Corso, Alain J., D'Amicis, Raffaella, Fabi, Michele, Frassetto, Fabio, Giarrusso, Marina, Giordano, Silvio, Guglielmino, Salvo L., Magli, Enrico, Massone, Giuseppe, Messerotti, Mauro, Nisticò, Giuseppe, Pelizzo, Maria G., Reale, Fabio, Romano, Paolo, Schühle, Udo, Solanki, Sami K., Straus, Thomas, Ventura, Rita, Volpicelli, Cosimo A., Zangrilli, Luca, Zimbardo, Gaetano, Zuppella, Paola, Bale, Stuart D., Kasper, Justin C., Telloni, Daniele, Romoli, Marco, Velli, Marco, Zank, Gary P., Adhikari, Laxman, Downs, Cooper, Burtovoi, Aleksandr, Susino, Roberto, Spadaro, Daniele, Zhao, Lingling, Liberatore, Alessandro, Shi, Chen, De Leo, Yara, Abbo, Lucia, Frassati, Federica, Jerse, Giovanna, Landini, Federico, Nicolini, Gianalfredo, Pancrazzi, Maurizio, Russano, Giuliana, Sasso, Clementina, Andretta, Vincenzo, Da Deppo, Vania, Fineschi, Silvano, Grimani, Catia, Heinzel, Petr, Moses, John D., Naletto, Giampiero, Stangalini, Marco, Teriaca, Luca, Uslenghi, Michela, Berlicki, Arkadiusz, Bruno, Roberto, Capobianco, Gerardo, Capuano, Giuseppe E., Casini, Chiara, Casti, Marta, Chioetto, Paolo, Corso, Alain J., D'Amicis, Raffaella, Fabi, Michele, Frassetto, Fabio, Giarrusso, Marina, Giordano, Silvio, Guglielmino, Salvo L., Magli, Enrico, Massone, Giuseppe, Messerotti, Mauro, Nisticò, Giuseppe, Pelizzo, Maria G., Reale, Fabio, Romano, Paolo, Schühle, Udo, Solanki, Sami K., Straus, Thomas, Ventura, Rita, Volpicelli, Cosimo A., Zangrilli, Luca, Zimbardo, Gaetano, Zuppella, Paola, Bale, Stuart D., and Kasper, Justin C.

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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 of the same coronal plasma volume with the Solar Orbiter/Metis and the Parker Solar Probe instruments, respectively, and relies on the basic solar wind magnetohydrodynamic equations. As expected, energy losses are a minor fraction of the solar wind energy flux, since most of the energy dissipation that feeds the heating and acceleration of the coronal flow occurs much closer to the Sun than the heights probed in the present study, which range from 6.3 to 13.3 solar radii. The energy deposited to the supersonic wind is then used to explain the observed slight residual wind acceleration and to maintain the plasma in a non-adiabatic state. As derived in the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin limit, the present energy transfer rate estimates provide a lower limit, which can be very useful in refining the turbulence-based modeling of coronal heating and subsequent solar wind acceleration.

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2023

5. A Hydrogenated amorphous silicon detector for Space Weather Applications

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Grimani, Catia, Fabi, Michele, Sabbatini, Federico, Villani, Mattia, Calcagnile, Lucio, Caricato, Anna Paola, Catalano, Roberto, Cirrone, Giuseppe Antonio Pablo, Croci, Tommaso, Cuttone, Giacomo, Dunand, Sylvain, Frontini, Luca, Ionica, Maria, Kanxheri, Keida, Large, Matthew, Liberali, Valentino, Martino, Maurizio, Maruccio, Giuseppe, Mazza, Giovanni, Menichelli, Mauro, Monteduro, Anna Grazia, Morozzi, Arianna, Moscatelli, Francesco, Pallotta, Stefania, Passeri, Daniele, Pedio, Maddalena, Petasecca, Marco, Petringa, Giada, Peverini, Francesca, Piccolo, Lorenzo, Placidi, Pisana, Quarta, Gianluca, Rizzato, Silvia, Stabile, Alberto, Talamonti, Cinzia, Wheadon, Richard James, Wyrsch, Nicolas, Servoli, Leonello, Grimani, Catia, Fabi, Michele, Sabbatini, Federico, Villani, Mattia, Calcagnile, Lucio, Caricato, Anna Paola, Catalano, Roberto, Cirrone, Giuseppe Antonio Pablo, Croci, Tommaso, Cuttone, Giacomo, Dunand, Sylvain, Frontini, Luca, Ionica, Maria, Kanxheri, Keida, Large, Matthew, Liberali, Valentino, Martino, Maurizio, Maruccio, Giuseppe, Mazza, Giovanni, Menichelli, Mauro, Monteduro, Anna Grazia, Morozzi, Arianna, Moscatelli, Francesco, Pallotta, Stefania, Passeri, Daniele, Pedio, Maddalena, Petasecca, Marco, Petringa, Giada, Peverini, Francesca, Piccolo, Lorenzo, Placidi, Pisana, Quarta, Gianluca, Rizzato, Silvia, Stabile, Alberto, Talamonti, Cinzia, Wheadon, Richard James, Wyrsch, Nicolas, and Servoli, Leonello

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The characteristics of a hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) detector are presented here for monitoring in space solar flares and the evolution of large energetic proton events up to hundreds of MeV. The a-Si:H presents an excellent radiation hardness and finds application in harsh radiation environments for medical purposes, for particle beam characterization and in space weather science and applications. The critical flux detection threshold for solar X rays, soft gamma rays, electrons and protons is discussed in detail., Comment: 32 pages, 13 figures, submitted to Experimental Astronomy

Published
2023

6. Linking Small-scale Solar Wind Properties with Large-scale Coronal Source Regions through Joint Parker Solar Probe-Metis/Solar Orbiter Observations

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Telloni, Daniele, Zank, Gary P., Sorriso-Valvo, Luca, D'Amicis, Raffaella, Panasenco, Olga, Susino, Roberto, Bruno, Roberto, Perrone, Denise, Adhikari, Laxman, Liang, Haoming, Nakanotani, Masaru, Zhao, Lingling, Hadid, Lina Z., Sanchez-Cano, Beatriz, Verscharen, Daniel, Velli, Marco, Grimani, Catia, Marino, Raffaele, Carbone, Francesco, Mancuso, Salvatore, Biondo, Ruggero, Pagano, Paolo, Reale, Fabio, Bale, Stuart D., Kasper, Justin C., Case, Anthony W., de Wit, Thierry Dudok, Goetz, Keith, Harvey, Peter R., Korreck, Kelly E., Larson, Davin, Livi, Roberto, MacDowall, Robert J., Malaspina, David M., Pulupa, Marc, Stevens, Michael L., Whittlesey, Phyllis, Romoli, Marco, Andretta, Vincenzo, Da Deppo, Vania, Fineschi, Silvano, Heinzel, Petr, Moses, John D., Naletto, Giampiero, Nicolini, Gianalfredo, Spadaro, Daniele, Stangalini, Marco, Teriaca, Luca, Capobianco, Gerardo, Capuano, Giuseppe E., Casini, Chiara, Casti, Marta, Chioetto, Paolo, Corso, Alain J., De Leo, Yara, Fabi, Michele, Frassati, Federica, Frassetto, Fabio, Giordano, Silvio, Guglielmino, Salvo L., Jerse, Giovanna, Landini, Federico, Liberatore, Alessandro, Magli, Enrico, Massone, Giuseppe, Messerotti, Mauro, Pancrazzi, Maurizio, Pelizzo, Maria G., Romano, Paolo, Sasso, Clementina, Schuhle, Udo, Slemer, Alessandra, Straus, Thomas, Uslenghi, Michela, Volpicelli, Cosimo A., Zangrilli, Luca, Zuppella, Paola, Abbo, Lucia, Auchere, Frederic, Cuadrado, Regina Aznar, Berlicki, Arkadiusz, Ciaravella, Angela, Lamy, Philippe, Lanzafame, Alessandro, Malvezzi, Marco, Nicolosi, Piergiorgio, Nistico, Giuseppe, Peter, Hardi, Solanki, Sami K., Strachan, Leonard, Tsinganos, Kanaris, Ventura, Rita, Vial, Jean-Claude, Woch, Joachim, Zimbardo, Gaetano, Telloni, Daniele, Zank, Gary P., Sorriso-Valvo, Luca, D'Amicis, Raffaella, Panasenco, Olga, Susino, Roberto, Bruno, Roberto, Perrone, Denise, Adhikari, Laxman, Liang, Haoming, Nakanotani, Masaru, Zhao, Lingling, Hadid, Lina Z., Sanchez-Cano, Beatriz, Verscharen, Daniel, Velli, Marco, Grimani, Catia, Marino, Raffaele, Carbone, Francesco, Mancuso, Salvatore, Biondo, Ruggero, Pagano, Paolo, Reale, Fabio, Bale, Stuart D., Kasper, Justin C., Case, Anthony W., de Wit, Thierry Dudok, Goetz, Keith, Harvey, Peter R., Korreck, Kelly E., Larson, Davin, Livi, Roberto, MacDowall, Robert J., Malaspina, David M., Pulupa, Marc, Stevens, Michael L., Whittlesey, Phyllis, Romoli, Marco, Andretta, Vincenzo, Da Deppo, Vania, Fineschi, Silvano, Heinzel, Petr, Moses, John D., Naletto, Giampiero, Nicolini, Gianalfredo, Spadaro, Daniele, Stangalini, Marco, Teriaca, Luca, Capobianco, Gerardo, Capuano, Giuseppe E., Casini, Chiara, Casti, Marta, Chioetto, Paolo, Corso, Alain J., De Leo, Yara, Fabi, Michele, Frassati, Federica, Frassetto, Fabio, Giordano, Silvio, Guglielmino, Salvo L., Jerse, Giovanna, Landini, Federico, Liberatore, Alessandro, Magli, Enrico, Massone, Giuseppe, Messerotti, Mauro, Pancrazzi, Maurizio, Pelizzo, Maria G., Romano, Paolo, Sasso, Clementina, Schuhle, Udo, Slemer, Alessandra, Straus, Thomas, Uslenghi, Michela, Volpicelli, Cosimo A., Zangrilli, Luca, Zuppella, Paola, Abbo, Lucia, Auchere, Frederic, Cuadrado, Regina Aznar, Berlicki, Arkadiusz, Ciaravella, Angela, Lamy, Philippe, Lanzafame, Alessandro, Malvezzi, Marco, Nicolosi, Piergiorgio, Nistico, Giuseppe, Peter, Hardi, Solanki, Sami K., Strachan, Leonard, Tsinganos, Kanaris, Ventura, Rita, Vial, Jean-Claude, Woch, Joachim, and Zimbardo, Gaetano

Abstract

The solar wind measured in situ by Parker Solar Probe in the very inner heliosphere is studied in combination with the remote-sensing observation of the coronal source region provided by the METIS coronagraph aboard Solar Orbiter. The coronal outflows observed near the ecliptic by Metis on 2021 January 17 at 16:30 UT, between 3.5 and 6.3 R (circle dot) above the eastern solar limb, can be associated with the streams sampled by PSP at 0.11 and 0.26 au from the Sun, in two time intervals almost 5 days apart. The two plasma flows come from two distinct source regions, characterized by different magnetic field polarity and intensity at the coronal base. It follows that both the global and local properties of the two streams are different. Specifically, the solar wind emanating from the stronger magnetic field region has a lower bulk flux density, as expected, and is in a state of well-developed Alfvenic turbulence, with low intermittency. This is interpreted in terms of slab turbulence in the context of nearly incompressible magnetohydrodynamics. Conversely, the highly intermittent and poorly developed turbulent behavior of the solar wind from the weaker magnetic field region is presumably due to large magnetic deflections most likely attributed to the presence of switchbacks of interchange reconnection origin.

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2022
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7. Observation of a Magnetic Switchback in the Solar Corona

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Telloni, Daniele, Zank, Gary P., Stangalini, Marco, Downs, Cooper, Liang, Haoming, Nakanotani, Masaru, Andretta, Vincenzo, Antonucci, Ester, Sorriso-Valvo, Luca, Adhikari, Laxman, Zhao, Lingling, Marino, Raffaele, Susino, Roberto, Grimani, Catia, Fabi, Michele, D'Amicis, Raffaella, Perrone, Denise, Bruno, Roberto, Carbone, Francesco, Mancuso, Salvatore, Romoli, Marco, Da Deppo, Vania, Fineschi, Silvano, Heinzel, Petr, Moses, John D., Naletto, Giampiero, Nicolini, Gianalfredo, Spadaro, Daniele, Teriaca, Luca, Frassati, Federica, Jerse, Giovanna, Landini, Federico, Pancrazzi, Maurizio, Russano, Giuliana, Sasso, Clementina, Biondo, Ruggero, Burtovoi, Aleksandr, Capuano, Giuseppe E., Casini, Chiara, Casti, Marta, Chioetto, Paolo, De Leo, Yara, Giarrusso, Marina, Liberatore, Alessandro, Berghmans, David, Auchere, Frederic, Cuadrado, Regina Aznar, Chitta, Lakshmi P., Harra, Louise, Kraaikamp, Emil, Long, David M., Mandal, Sudip, Parenti, Susanna, Pelouze, Gabriel, Peter, Hardi, Rodriguez, Luciano, Schühle, Udo, Schwanitz, Conrad, Smith, Phil J., Verbeeck, Cis, Zhukov, Andrei N., Telloni, Daniele, Zank, Gary P., Stangalini, Marco, Downs, Cooper, Liang, Haoming, Nakanotani, Masaru, Andretta, Vincenzo, Antonucci, Ester, Sorriso-Valvo, Luca, Adhikari, Laxman, Zhao, Lingling, Marino, Raffaele, Susino, Roberto, Grimani, Catia, Fabi, Michele, D'Amicis, Raffaella, Perrone, Denise, Bruno, Roberto, Carbone, Francesco, Mancuso, Salvatore, Romoli, Marco, Da Deppo, Vania, Fineschi, Silvano, Heinzel, Petr, Moses, John D., Naletto, Giampiero, Nicolini, Gianalfredo, Spadaro, Daniele, Teriaca, Luca, Frassati, Federica, Jerse, Giovanna, Landini, Federico, Pancrazzi, Maurizio, Russano, Giuliana, Sasso, Clementina, Biondo, Ruggero, Burtovoi, Aleksandr, Capuano, Giuseppe E., Casini, Chiara, Casti, Marta, Chioetto, Paolo, De Leo, Yara, Giarrusso, Marina, Liberatore, Alessandro, Berghmans, David, Auchere, Frederic, Cuadrado, Regina Aznar, Chitta, Lakshmi P., Harra, Louise, Kraaikamp, Emil, Long, David M., Mandal, Sudip, Parenti, Susanna, Pelouze, Gabriel, Peter, Hardi, Rodriguez, Luciano, Schühle, Udo, Schwanitz, Conrad, Smith, Phil J., Verbeeck, Cis, and Zhukov, Andrei N.

Abstract

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 mechanism and sources are still unresolved, although candidate mechanisms include Alfvenic turbulence, shear-driven Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities, interchange reconnection, and geometrical effects related to the Parker spiral. This Letter presents observations from the Metis coronagraph on board a Solar Orbiter of a single large propagating S-shaped vortex, interpreted as the first evidence of a switchback in the solar corona. It originated above an active region with the related loop system bounded by open-field regions to the east and west. Observations, modeling, and theory provide strong arguments in favor of the interchange reconnection origin of switchbacks. Metis measurements suggest that the initiation of the switchback may also be an indicator of the origin of slow solar wind.

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2022
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8. Linking Small-scale Solar Wind Properties with Large-scale Coronal Source Regions through Joint Parker Solar Probe-Metis/Solar Orbiter Observations

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Telloni, Daniele, Zank, Gary P., Sorriso-Valvo, Luca, D'Amicis, Raffaella, Panasenco, Olga, Susino, Roberto, Bruno, Roberto, Perrone, Denise, Adhikari, Laxman, Liang, Haoming, Nakanotani, Masaru, Zhao, Lingling, Hadid, Lina Z., Sanchez-Cano, Beatriz, Verscharen, Daniel, Velli, Marco, Grimani, Catia, Marino, Raffaele, Carbone, Francesco, Mancuso, Salvatore, Biondo, Ruggero, Pagano, Paolo, Reale, Fabio, Bale, Stuart D., Kasper, Justin C., Case, Anthony W., de Wit, Thierry Dudok, Goetz, Keith, Harvey, Peter R., Korreck, Kelly E., Larson, Davin, Livi, Roberto, MacDowall, Robert J., Malaspina, David M., Pulupa, Marc, Stevens, Michael L., Whittlesey, Phyllis, Romoli, Marco, Andretta, Vincenzo, Da Deppo, Vania, Fineschi, Silvano, Heinzel, Petr, Moses, John D., Naletto, Giampiero, Nicolini, Gianalfredo, Spadaro, Daniele, Stangalini, Marco, Teriaca, Luca, Capobianco, Gerardo, Capuano, Giuseppe E., Casini, Chiara, Casti, Marta, Chioetto, Paolo, Corso, Alain J., De Leo, Yara, Fabi, Michele, Frassati, Federica, Frassetto, Fabio, Giordano, Silvio, Guglielmino, Salvo L., Jerse, Giovanna, Landini, Federico, Liberatore, Alessandro, Magli, Enrico, Massone, Giuseppe, Messerotti, Mauro, Pancrazzi, Maurizio, Pelizzo, Maria G., Romano, Paolo, Sasso, Clementina, Schuhle, Udo, Slemer, Alessandra, Straus, Thomas, Uslenghi, Michela, Volpicelli, Cosimo A., Zangrilli, Luca, Zuppella, Paola, Abbo, Lucia, Auchere, Frederic, Cuadrado, Regina Aznar, Berlicki, Arkadiusz, Ciaravella, Angela, Lamy, Philippe, Lanzafame, Alessandro, Malvezzi, Marco, Nicolosi, Piergiorgio, Nistico, Giuseppe, Peter, Hardi, Solanki, Sami K., Strachan, Leonard, Tsinganos, Kanaris, Ventura, Rita, Vial, Jean-Claude, Woch, Joachim, Zimbardo, Gaetano, Telloni, Daniele, Zank, Gary P., Sorriso-Valvo, Luca, D'Amicis, Raffaella, Panasenco, Olga, Susino, Roberto, Bruno, Roberto, Perrone, Denise, Adhikari, Laxman, Liang, Haoming, Nakanotani, Masaru, Zhao, Lingling, Hadid, Lina Z., Sanchez-Cano, Beatriz, Verscharen, Daniel, Velli, Marco, Grimani, Catia, Marino, Raffaele, Carbone, Francesco, Mancuso, Salvatore, Biondo, Ruggero, Pagano, Paolo, Reale, Fabio, Bale, Stuart D., Kasper, Justin C., Case, Anthony W., de Wit, Thierry Dudok, Goetz, Keith, Harvey, Peter R., Korreck, Kelly E., Larson, Davin, Livi, Roberto, MacDowall, Robert J., Malaspina, David M., Pulupa, Marc, Stevens, Michael L., Whittlesey, Phyllis, Romoli, Marco, Andretta, Vincenzo, Da Deppo, Vania, Fineschi, Silvano, Heinzel, Petr, Moses, John D., Naletto, Giampiero, Nicolini, Gianalfredo, Spadaro, Daniele, Stangalini, Marco, Teriaca, Luca, Capobianco, Gerardo, Capuano, Giuseppe E., Casini, Chiara, Casti, Marta, Chioetto, Paolo, Corso, Alain J., De Leo, Yara, Fabi, Michele, Frassati, Federica, Frassetto, Fabio, Giordano, Silvio, Guglielmino, Salvo L., Jerse, Giovanna, Landini, Federico, Liberatore, Alessandro, Magli, Enrico, Massone, Giuseppe, Messerotti, Mauro, Pancrazzi, Maurizio, Pelizzo, Maria G., Romano, Paolo, Sasso, Clementina, Schuhle, Udo, Slemer, Alessandra, Straus, Thomas, Uslenghi, Michela, Volpicelli, Cosimo A., Zangrilli, Luca, Zuppella, Paola, Abbo, Lucia, Auchere, Frederic, Cuadrado, Regina Aznar, Berlicki, Arkadiusz, Ciaravella, Angela, Lamy, Philippe, Lanzafame, Alessandro, Malvezzi, Marco, Nicolosi, Piergiorgio, Nistico, Giuseppe, Peter, Hardi, Solanki, Sami K., Strachan, Leonard, Tsinganos, Kanaris, Ventura, Rita, Vial, Jean-Claude, Woch, Joachim, and Zimbardo, Gaetano

Abstract

The solar wind measured in situ by Parker Solar Probe in the very inner heliosphere is studied in combination with the remote-sensing observation of the coronal source region provided by the METIS coronagraph aboard Solar Orbiter. The coronal outflows observed near the ecliptic by Metis on 2021 January 17 at 16:30 UT, between 3.5 and 6.3 R (circle dot) above the eastern solar limb, can be associated with the streams sampled by PSP at 0.11 and 0.26 au from the Sun, in two time intervals almost 5 days apart. The two plasma flows come from two distinct source regions, characterized by different magnetic field polarity and intensity at the coronal base. It follows that both the global and local properties of the two streams are different. Specifically, the solar wind emanating from the stronger magnetic field region has a lower bulk flux density, as expected, and is in a state of well-developed Alfvenic turbulence, with low intermittency. This is interpreted in terms of slab turbulence in the context of nearly incompressible magnetohydrodynamics. Conversely, the highly intermittent and poorly developed turbulent behavior of the solar wind from the weaker magnetic field region is presumably due to large magnetic deflections most likely attributed to the presence of switchbacks of interchange reconnection origin.

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2022
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9. Observation of a Magnetic Switchback in the Solar Corona

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Telloni, Daniele, Zank, Gary P., Stangalini, Marco, Downs, Cooper, Liang, Haoming, Nakanotani, Masaru, Andretta, Vincenzo, Antonucci, Ester, Sorriso-Valvo, Luca, Adhikari, Laxman, Zhao, Lingling, Marino, Raffaele, Susino, Roberto, Grimani, Catia, Fabi, Michele, D'Amicis, Raffaella, Perrone, Denise, Bruno, Roberto, Carbone, Francesco, Mancuso, Salvatore, Romoli, Marco, Da Deppo, Vania, Fineschi, Silvano, Heinzel, Petr, Moses, John D., Naletto, Giampiero, Nicolini, Gianalfredo, Spadaro, Daniele, Teriaca, Luca, Frassati, Federica, Jerse, Giovanna, Landini, Federico, Pancrazzi, Maurizio, Russano, Giuliana, Sasso, Clementina, Biondo, Ruggero, Burtovoi, Aleksandr, Capuano, Giuseppe E., Casini, Chiara, Casti, Marta, Chioetto, Paolo, De Leo, Yara, Giarrusso, Marina, Liberatore, Alessandro, Berghmans, David, Auchere, Frederic, Cuadrado, Regina Aznar, Chitta, Lakshmi P., Harra, Louise, Kraaikamp, Emil, Long, David M., Mandal, Sudip, Parenti, Susanna, Pelouze, Gabriel, Peter, Hardi, Rodriguez, Luciano, Schühle, Udo, Schwanitz, Conrad, Smith, Phil J., Verbeeck, Cis, Zhukov, Andrei N., Telloni, Daniele, Zank, Gary P., Stangalini, Marco, Downs, Cooper, Liang, Haoming, Nakanotani, Masaru, Andretta, Vincenzo, Antonucci, Ester, Sorriso-Valvo, Luca, Adhikari, Laxman, Zhao, Lingling, Marino, Raffaele, Susino, Roberto, Grimani, Catia, Fabi, Michele, D'Amicis, Raffaella, Perrone, Denise, Bruno, Roberto, Carbone, Francesco, Mancuso, Salvatore, Romoli, Marco, Da Deppo, Vania, Fineschi, Silvano, Heinzel, Petr, Moses, John D., Naletto, Giampiero, Nicolini, Gianalfredo, Spadaro, Daniele, Teriaca, Luca, Frassati, Federica, Jerse, Giovanna, Landini, Federico, Pancrazzi, Maurizio, Russano, Giuliana, Sasso, Clementina, Biondo, Ruggero, Burtovoi, Aleksandr, Capuano, Giuseppe E., Casini, Chiara, Casti, Marta, Chioetto, Paolo, De Leo, Yara, Giarrusso, Marina, Liberatore, Alessandro, Berghmans, David, Auchere, Frederic, Cuadrado, Regina Aznar, Chitta, Lakshmi P., Harra, Louise, Kraaikamp, Emil, Long, David M., Mandal, Sudip, Parenti, Susanna, Pelouze, Gabriel, Peter, Hardi, Rodriguez, Luciano, Schühle, Udo, Schwanitz, Conrad, Smith, Phil J., Verbeeck, Cis, and Zhukov, Andrei N.

Abstract

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 mechanism and sources are still unresolved, although candidate mechanisms include Alfvenic turbulence, shear-driven Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities, interchange reconnection, and geometrical effects related to the Parker spiral. This Letter presents observations from the Metis coronagraph on board a Solar Orbiter of a single large propagating S-shaped vortex, interpreted as the first evidence of a switchback in the solar corona. It originated above an active region with the related loop system bounded by open-field regions to the east and west. Observations, modeling, and theory provide strong arguments in favor of the interchange reconnection origin of switchbacks. Metis measurements suggest that the initiation of the switchback may also be an indicator of the origin of slow solar wind.

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2022
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10. Observation of a Magnetic Switchback in the Solar Corona

Author

Telloni, Daniele, Zank, Gary P., Stangalini, Marco, Downs, Cooper, Liang, Haoming, Nakanotani, Masaru, Andretta, Vincenzo, Antonucci, Ester, Sorriso-Valvo, Luca, Adhikari, Laxman, Zhao, Lingling, Marino, Raffaele, Susino, Roberto, Grimani, Catia, Fabi, Michele, D'Amicis, Raffaella, Perrone, Denise, Bruno, Roberto, Carbone, Francesco, Mancuso, Salvatore, Romoli, Marco, Da Deppo, Vania, Fineschi, Silvano, Heinzel, Petr, Moses, John D., Naletto, Giampiero, Nicolini, Gianalfredo, Spadaro, Daniele, Teriaca, Luca, Frassati, Federica, Jerse, Giovanna, Landini, Federico, Pancrazzi, Maurizio, Russano, Giuliana, Sasso, Clementina, Biondo, Ruggero, Burtovoi, Aleksandr, Capuano, Giuseppe E., Casini, Chiara, Casti, Marta, Chioetto, Paolo, De Leo, Yara, Giarrusso, Marina, Liberatore, Alessandro, Berghmans, David, Auchere, Frederic, Cuadrado, Regina Aznar, Chitta, Lakshmi P., Harra, Louise, Kraaikamp, Emil, Long, David M., Mandal, Sudip, Parenti, Susanna, Pelouze, Gabriel, Peter, Hardi, Rodriguez, Luciano, Schühle, Udo, Schwanitz, Conrad, Smith, Phil J., Verbeeck, Cis, Zhukov, Andrei N., Telloni, Daniele, Zank, Gary P., Stangalini, Marco, Downs, Cooper, Liang, Haoming, Nakanotani, Masaru, Andretta, Vincenzo, Antonucci, Ester, Sorriso-Valvo, Luca, Adhikari, Laxman, Zhao, Lingling, Marino, Raffaele, Susino, Roberto, Grimani, Catia, Fabi, Michele, D'Amicis, Raffaella, Perrone, Denise, Bruno, Roberto, Carbone, Francesco, Mancuso, Salvatore, Romoli, Marco, Da Deppo, Vania, Fineschi, Silvano, Heinzel, Petr, Moses, John D., Naletto, Giampiero, Nicolini, Gianalfredo, Spadaro, Daniele, Teriaca, Luca, Frassati, Federica, Jerse, Giovanna, Landini, Federico, Pancrazzi, Maurizio, Russano, Giuliana, Sasso, Clementina, Biondo, Ruggero, Burtovoi, Aleksandr, Capuano, Giuseppe E., Casini, Chiara, Casti, Marta, Chioetto, Paolo, De Leo, Yara, Giarrusso, Marina, Liberatore, Alessandro, Berghmans, David, Auchere, Frederic, Cuadrado, Regina Aznar, Chitta, Lakshmi P., Harra, Louise, Kraaikamp, Emil, Long, David M., Mandal, Sudip, Parenti, Susanna, Pelouze, Gabriel, Peter, Hardi, Rodriguez, Luciano, Schühle, Udo, Schwanitz, Conrad, Smith, Phil J., Verbeeck, Cis, and Zhukov, Andrei N.

Abstract

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 mechanism and sources are still unresolved, although candidate mechanisms include Alfvenic turbulence, shear-driven Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities, interchange reconnection, and geometrical effects related to the Parker spiral. This Letter presents observations from the Metis coronagraph on board a Solar Orbiter of a single large propagating S-shaped vortex, interpreted as the first evidence of a switchback in the solar corona. It originated above an active region with the related loop system bounded by open-field regions to the east and west. Observations, modeling, and theory provide strong arguments in favor of the interchange reconnection origin of switchbacks. Metis measurements suggest that the initiation of the switchback may also be an indicator of the origin of slow solar wind.

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2022
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11. Linking Small-scale Solar Wind Properties with Large-scale Coronal Source Regions through Joint Parker Solar Probe-Metis/Solar Orbiter Observations

Author

Telloni, Daniele, Zank, Gary P., Sorriso-Valvo, Luca, D'Amicis, Raffaella, Panasenco, Olga, Susino, Roberto, Bruno, Roberto, Perrone, Denise, Adhikari, Laxman, Liang, Haoming, Nakanotani, Masaru, Zhao, Lingling, Hadid, Lina Z., Sanchez-Cano, Beatriz, Verscharen, Daniel, Velli, Marco, Grimani, Catia, Marino, Raffaele, Carbone, Francesco, Mancuso, Salvatore, Biondo, Ruggero, Pagano, Paolo, Reale, Fabio, Bale, Stuart D., Kasper, Justin C., Case, Anthony W., de Wit, Thierry Dudok, Goetz, Keith, Harvey, Peter R., Korreck, Kelly E., Larson, Davin, Livi, Roberto, MacDowall, Robert J., Malaspina, David M., Pulupa, Marc, Stevens, Michael L., Whittlesey, Phyllis, Romoli, Marco, Andretta, Vincenzo, Da Deppo, Vania, Fineschi, Silvano, Heinzel, Petr, Moses, John D., Naletto, Giampiero, Nicolini, Gianalfredo, Spadaro, Daniele, Stangalini, Marco, Teriaca, Luca, Capobianco, Gerardo, Capuano, Giuseppe E., Casini, Chiara, Casti, Marta, Chioetto, Paolo, Corso, Alain J., De Leo, Yara, Fabi, Michele, Frassati, Federica, Frassetto, Fabio, Giordano, Silvio, Guglielmino, Salvo L., Jerse, Giovanna, Landini, Federico, Liberatore, Alessandro, Magli, Enrico, Massone, Giuseppe, Messerotti, Mauro, Pancrazzi, Maurizio, Pelizzo, Maria G., Romano, Paolo, Sasso, Clementina, Schuhle, Udo, Slemer, Alessandra, Straus, Thomas, Uslenghi, Michela, Volpicelli, Cosimo A., Zangrilli, Luca, Zuppella, Paola, Abbo, Lucia, Auchere, Frederic, Cuadrado, Regina Aznar, Berlicki, Arkadiusz, Ciaravella, Angela, Lamy, Philippe, Lanzafame, Alessandro, Malvezzi, Marco, Nicolosi, Piergiorgio, Nistico, Giuseppe, Peter, Hardi, Solanki, Sami K., Strachan, Leonard, Tsinganos, Kanaris, Ventura, Rita, Vial, Jean-Claude, Woch, Joachim, Zimbardo, Gaetano, Telloni, Daniele, Zank, Gary P., Sorriso-Valvo, Luca, D'Amicis, Raffaella, Panasenco, Olga, Susino, Roberto, Bruno, Roberto, Perrone, Denise, Adhikari, Laxman, Liang, Haoming, Nakanotani, Masaru, Zhao, Lingling, Hadid, Lina Z., Sanchez-Cano, Beatriz, Verscharen, Daniel, Velli, Marco, Grimani, Catia, Marino, Raffaele, Carbone, Francesco, Mancuso, Salvatore, Biondo, Ruggero, Pagano, Paolo, Reale, Fabio, Bale, Stuart D., Kasper, Justin C., Case, Anthony W., de Wit, Thierry Dudok, Goetz, Keith, Harvey, Peter R., Korreck, Kelly E., Larson, Davin, Livi, Roberto, MacDowall, Robert J., Malaspina, David M., Pulupa, Marc, Stevens, Michael L., Whittlesey, Phyllis, Romoli, Marco, Andretta, Vincenzo, Da Deppo, Vania, Fineschi, Silvano, Heinzel, Petr, Moses, John D., Naletto, Giampiero, Nicolini, Gianalfredo, Spadaro, Daniele, Stangalini, Marco, Teriaca, Luca, Capobianco, Gerardo, Capuano, Giuseppe E., Casini, Chiara, Casti, Marta, Chioetto, Paolo, Corso, Alain J., De Leo, Yara, Fabi, Michele, Frassati, Federica, Frassetto, Fabio, Giordano, Silvio, Guglielmino, Salvo L., Jerse, Giovanna, Landini, Federico, Liberatore, Alessandro, Magli, Enrico, Massone, Giuseppe, Messerotti, Mauro, Pancrazzi, Maurizio, Pelizzo, Maria G., Romano, Paolo, Sasso, Clementina, Schuhle, Udo, Slemer, Alessandra, Straus, Thomas, Uslenghi, Michela, Volpicelli, Cosimo A., Zangrilli, Luca, Zuppella, Paola, Abbo, Lucia, Auchere, Frederic, Cuadrado, Regina Aznar, Berlicki, Arkadiusz, Ciaravella, Angela, Lamy, Philippe, Lanzafame, Alessandro, Malvezzi, Marco, Nicolosi, Piergiorgio, Nistico, Giuseppe, Peter, Hardi, Solanki, Sami K., Strachan, Leonard, Tsinganos, Kanaris, Ventura, Rita, Vial, Jean-Claude, Woch, Joachim, and Zimbardo, Gaetano

Abstract

The solar wind measured in situ by Parker Solar Probe in the very inner heliosphere is studied in combination with the remote-sensing observation of the coronal source region provided by the METIS coronagraph aboard Solar Orbiter. The coronal outflows observed near the ecliptic by Metis on 2021 January 17 at 16:30 UT, between 3.5 and 6.3 R (circle dot) above the eastern solar limb, can be associated with the streams sampled by PSP at 0.11 and 0.26 au from the Sun, in two time intervals almost 5 days apart. The two plasma flows come from two distinct source regions, characterized by different magnetic field polarity and intensity at the coronal base. It follows that both the global and local properties of the two streams are different. Specifically, the solar wind emanating from the stronger magnetic field region has a lower bulk flux density, as expected, and is in a state of well-developed Alfvenic turbulence, with low intermittency. This is interpreted in terms of slab turbulence in the context of nearly incompressible magnetohydrodynamics. Conversely, the highly intermittent and poorly developed turbulent behavior of the solar wind from the weaker magnetic field region is presumably due to large magnetic deflections most likely attributed to the presence of switchbacks of interchange reconnection origin.

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2022
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12. Observation of a Magnetic Switchback in the Solar Corona

Author

Telloni, Daniele, Zank, Gary P., Stangalini, Marco, Downs, Cooper, Liang, Haoming, Nakanotani, Masaru, Andretta, Vincenzo, Antonucci, Ester, Sorriso-Valvo, Luca, Adhikari, Laxman, Zhao, Lingling, Marino, Raffaele, Susino, Roberto, Grimani, Catia, Fabi, Michele, D'Amicis, Raffaella, Perrone, Denise, Bruno, Roberto, Carbone, Francesco, Mancuso, Salvatore, Romoli, Marco, Da Deppo, Vania, Fineschi, Silvano, Heinzel, Petr, Moses, John D., Naletto, Giampiero, Nicolini, Gianalfredo, Spadaro, Daniele, Teriaca, Luca, Frassati, Federica, Jerse, Giovanna, Landini, Federico, Pancrazzi, Maurizio, Russano, Giuliana, Sasso, Clementina, Biondo, Ruggero, Burtovoi, Aleksandr, Capuano, Giuseppe E., Casini, Chiara, Casti, Marta, Chioetto, Paolo, De Leo, Yara, Giarrusso, Marina, Liberatore, Alessandro, Berghmans, David, Auchere, Frederic, Cuadrado, Regina Aznar, Chitta, Lakshmi P., Harra, Louise, Kraaikamp, Emil, Long, David M., Mandal, Sudip, Parenti, Susanna, Pelouze, Gabriel, Peter, Hardi, Rodriguez, Luciano, Schühle, Udo, Schwanitz, Conrad, Smith, Phil J., Verbeeck, Cis, Zhukov, Andrei N., Telloni, Daniele, Zank, Gary P., Stangalini, Marco, Downs, Cooper, Liang, Haoming, Nakanotani, Masaru, Andretta, Vincenzo, Antonucci, Ester, Sorriso-Valvo, Luca, Adhikari, Laxman, Zhao, Lingling, Marino, Raffaele, Susino, Roberto, Grimani, Catia, Fabi, Michele, D'Amicis, Raffaella, Perrone, Denise, Bruno, Roberto, Carbone, Francesco, Mancuso, Salvatore, Romoli, Marco, Da Deppo, Vania, Fineschi, Silvano, Heinzel, Petr, Moses, John D., Naletto, Giampiero, Nicolini, Gianalfredo, Spadaro, Daniele, Teriaca, Luca, Frassati, Federica, Jerse, Giovanna, Landini, Federico, Pancrazzi, Maurizio, Russano, Giuliana, Sasso, Clementina, Biondo, Ruggero, Burtovoi, Aleksandr, Capuano, Giuseppe E., Casini, Chiara, Casti, Marta, Chioetto, Paolo, De Leo, Yara, Giarrusso, Marina, Liberatore, Alessandro, Berghmans, David, Auchere, Frederic, Cuadrado, Regina Aznar, Chitta, Lakshmi P., Harra, Louise, Kraaikamp, Emil, Long, David M., Mandal, Sudip, Parenti, Susanna, Pelouze, Gabriel, Peter, Hardi, Rodriguez, Luciano, Schühle, Udo, Schwanitz, Conrad, Smith, Phil J., Verbeeck, Cis, and Zhukov, Andrei N.

Abstract

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 mechanism and sources are still unresolved, although candidate mechanisms include Alfvenic turbulence, shear-driven Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities, interchange reconnection, and geometrical effects related to the Parker spiral. This Letter presents observations from the Metis coronagraph on board a Solar Orbiter of a single large propagating S-shaped vortex, interpreted as the first evidence of a switchback in the solar corona. It originated above an active region with the related loop system bounded by open-field regions to the east and west. Observations, modeling, and theory provide strong arguments in favor of the interchange reconnection origin of switchbacks. Metis measurements suggest that the initiation of the switchback may also be an indicator of the origin of slow solar wind.

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2022
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13. Linking Small-scale Solar Wind Properties with Large-scale Coronal Source Regions through Joint Parker Solar Probe-Metis/Solar Orbiter Observations

Author

Telloni, Daniele, Zank, Gary P., Sorriso-Valvo, Luca, D'Amicis, Raffaella, Panasenco, Olga, Susino, Roberto, Bruno, Roberto, Perrone, Denise, Adhikari, Laxman, Liang, Haoming, Nakanotani, Masaru, Zhao, Lingling, Hadid, Lina Z., Sanchez-Cano, Beatriz, Verscharen, Daniel, Velli, Marco, Grimani, Catia, Marino, Raffaele, Carbone, Francesco, Mancuso, Salvatore, Biondo, Ruggero, Pagano, Paolo, Reale, Fabio, Bale, Stuart D., Kasper, Justin C., Case, Anthony W., de Wit, Thierry Dudok, Goetz, Keith, Harvey, Peter R., Korreck, Kelly E., Larson, Davin, Livi, Roberto, MacDowall, Robert J., Malaspina, David M., Pulupa, Marc, Stevens, Michael L., Whittlesey, Phyllis, Romoli, Marco, Andretta, Vincenzo, Da Deppo, Vania, Fineschi, Silvano, Heinzel, Petr, Moses, John D., Naletto, Giampiero, Nicolini, Gianalfredo, Spadaro, Daniele, Stangalini, Marco, Teriaca, Luca, Capobianco, Gerardo, Capuano, Giuseppe E., Casini, Chiara, Casti, Marta, Chioetto, Paolo, Corso, Alain J., De Leo, Yara, Fabi, Michele, Frassati, Federica, Frassetto, Fabio, Giordano, Silvio, Guglielmino, Salvo L., Jerse, Giovanna, Landini, Federico, Liberatore, Alessandro, Magli, Enrico, Massone, Giuseppe, Messerotti, Mauro, Pancrazzi, Maurizio, Pelizzo, Maria G., Romano, Paolo, Sasso, Clementina, Schuhle, Udo, Slemer, Alessandra, Straus, Thomas, Uslenghi, Michela, Volpicelli, Cosimo A., Zangrilli, Luca, Zuppella, Paola, Abbo, Lucia, Auchere, Frederic, Cuadrado, Regina Aznar, Berlicki, Arkadiusz, Ciaravella, Angela, Lamy, Philippe, Lanzafame, Alessandro, Malvezzi, Marco, Nicolosi, Piergiorgio, Nistico, Giuseppe, Peter, Hardi, Solanki, Sami K., Strachan, Leonard, Tsinganos, Kanaris, Ventura, Rita, Vial, Jean-Claude, Woch, Joachim, Zimbardo, Gaetano, Telloni, Daniele, Zank, Gary P., Sorriso-Valvo, Luca, D'Amicis, Raffaella, Panasenco, Olga, Susino, Roberto, Bruno, Roberto, Perrone, Denise, Adhikari, Laxman, Liang, Haoming, Nakanotani, Masaru, Zhao, Lingling, Hadid, Lina Z., Sanchez-Cano, Beatriz, Verscharen, Daniel, Velli, Marco, Grimani, Catia, Marino, Raffaele, Carbone, Francesco, Mancuso, Salvatore, Biondo, Ruggero, Pagano, Paolo, Reale, Fabio, Bale, Stuart D., Kasper, Justin C., Case, Anthony W., de Wit, Thierry Dudok, Goetz, Keith, Harvey, Peter R., Korreck, Kelly E., Larson, Davin, Livi, Roberto, MacDowall, Robert J., Malaspina, David M., Pulupa, Marc, Stevens, Michael L., Whittlesey, Phyllis, Romoli, Marco, Andretta, Vincenzo, Da Deppo, Vania, Fineschi, Silvano, Heinzel, Petr, Moses, John D., Naletto, Giampiero, Nicolini, Gianalfredo, Spadaro, Daniele, Stangalini, Marco, Teriaca, Luca, Capobianco, Gerardo, Capuano, Giuseppe E., Casini, Chiara, Casti, Marta, Chioetto, Paolo, Corso, Alain J., De Leo, Yara, Fabi, Michele, Frassati, Federica, Frassetto, Fabio, Giordano, Silvio, Guglielmino, Salvo L., Jerse, Giovanna, Landini, Federico, Liberatore, Alessandro, Magli, Enrico, Massone, Giuseppe, Messerotti, Mauro, Pancrazzi, Maurizio, Pelizzo, Maria G., Romano, Paolo, Sasso, Clementina, Schuhle, Udo, Slemer, Alessandra, Straus, Thomas, Uslenghi, Michela, Volpicelli, Cosimo A., Zangrilli, Luca, Zuppella, Paola, Abbo, Lucia, Auchere, Frederic, Cuadrado, Regina Aznar, Berlicki, Arkadiusz, Ciaravella, Angela, Lamy, Philippe, Lanzafame, Alessandro, Malvezzi, Marco, Nicolosi, Piergiorgio, Nistico, Giuseppe, Peter, Hardi, Solanki, Sami K., Strachan, Leonard, Tsinganos, Kanaris, Ventura, Rita, Vial, Jean-Claude, Woch, Joachim, and Zimbardo, Gaetano

Abstract

The solar wind measured in situ by Parker Solar Probe in the very inner heliosphere is studied in combination with the remote-sensing observation of the coronal source region provided by the METIS coronagraph aboard Solar Orbiter. The coronal outflows observed near the ecliptic by Metis on 2021 January 17 at 16:30 UT, between 3.5 and 6.3 R (circle dot) above the eastern solar limb, can be associated with the streams sampled by PSP at 0.11 and 0.26 au from the Sun, in two time intervals almost 5 days apart. The two plasma flows come from two distinct source regions, characterized by different magnetic field polarity and intensity at the coronal base. It follows that both the global and local properties of the two streams are different. Specifically, the solar wind emanating from the stronger magnetic field region has a lower bulk flux density, as expected, and is in a state of well-developed Alfvenic turbulence, with low intermittency. This is interpreted in terms of slab turbulence in the context of nearly incompressible magnetohydrodynamics. Conversely, the highly intermittent and poorly developed turbulent behavior of the solar wind from the weaker magnetic field region is presumably due to large magnetic deflections most likely attributed to the presence of switchbacks of interchange reconnection origin.

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2022
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14. Bridging the gap between Monte Carlo simulations and measurements of the LISA Pathfinder test-mass charging for LISA

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Grimani, Catia, Villani, Mattia, Fabi, Michele, Cesarini, Andrea, Sabbatini, Federico, Grimani, Catia, Villani, Mattia, Fabi, Michele, Cesarini, Andrea, and Sabbatini, Federico

Abstract

Cubic gold-platinum free-falling test masses (TMs) constitute the mirrors of future LISA and LISA-like interferometers for low-frequency gravitational wave detection in space. High-energy particles of Galactic and solar origin charge the TMs and thus induce spurious electrostatic and magnetic forces that limit the sensitivity of these interferometers. Prelaunch Monte Carlo simulations of the TM charging were carried out for the LISA Pathfinder (LPF) mission, that was planned to test the LISA instrumentation. Measurements and simulations were compared during the mission operations. The measured net TM charging agreed with simulation estimates, while the charging noise was three to four times higher. We aim to bridge the gap between LPF TM charging noise simulations and observations. New Monte Carlo simulations of the LPF TM charging due to both Galactic and solar particles were carried out with the FLUKA/LEI toolkit. This allowed propagating low-energy electrons down to a few electronvolt. These improved FLUKA/LEI simulations agree with observations gathered during the mission operations within statistical and Monte Carlo errors. The charging noise induced by Galactic cosmic rays is about one thousand charges per second. This value increases to tens of thousands charges per second during solar energetic particle events. Similar results are expected for the LISA TM charging., Comment: 11 pages, 9 figures

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2022
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15. Observation of a Magnetic Switchback in the Solar Corona

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Telloni, Daniele, Zank, Gary P., Stangalini, Marco, Downs, Cooper, Liang, Haoming, Nakanotani, Masaru, Andretta, Vincenzo, Antonucci, Ester, Sorriso-Valvo, Luca, Adhikari, Laxman, Zhao, Lingling, Marino, Raffaele, Susino, Roberto, Grimani, Catia, Fabi, Michele, D'Amicis, Raffaella, Perrone, Denise, Bruno, Roberto, Carbone, Francesco, Mancuso, Salvatore, Romoli, Marco, Da Deppo, Vania, Fineschi, Silvano, Heinzel, Petr, Moses, John D., Naletto, Giampiero, Nicolini, Gianalfredo, Spadaro, Daniele, Teriaca, Luca, Frassati, Federica, Jerse, Giovanna, Landini, Federico, Pancrazzi, Maurizio, Russano, Giuliana, Sasso, Clementina, Biondo, Ruggero, Burtovoi, Aleksandr, Capuano, Giuseppe E., Casini, Chiara, Casti, Marta, Chioetto, Paolo, De Leo, Yara, Giarrusso, Marina, Liberatore, Alessandro, Berghmans, David, Auchere, Frederic, Cuadrado, Regina Aznar, Chitta, Lakshmi P., Harra, Louise, Kraaikamp, Emil, Long, David M., Mandal, Sudip, Parenti, Susanna, Pelouze, Gabriel, Peter, Hardi, Rodriguez, Luciano, Schühle, Udo, Schwanitz, Conrad, Smith, Phil J., Verbeeck, Cis, Zhukov, Andrei N., Telloni, Daniele, Zank, Gary P., Stangalini, Marco, Downs, Cooper, Liang, Haoming, Nakanotani, Masaru, Andretta, Vincenzo, Antonucci, Ester, Sorriso-Valvo, Luca, Adhikari, Laxman, Zhao, Lingling, Marino, Raffaele, Susino, Roberto, Grimani, Catia, Fabi, Michele, D'Amicis, Raffaella, Perrone, Denise, Bruno, Roberto, Carbone, Francesco, Mancuso, Salvatore, Romoli, Marco, Da Deppo, Vania, Fineschi, Silvano, Heinzel, Petr, Moses, John D., Naletto, Giampiero, Nicolini, Gianalfredo, Spadaro, Daniele, Teriaca, Luca, Frassati, Federica, Jerse, Giovanna, Landini, Federico, Pancrazzi, Maurizio, Russano, Giuliana, Sasso, Clementina, Biondo, Ruggero, Burtovoi, Aleksandr, Capuano, Giuseppe E., Casini, Chiara, Casti, Marta, Chioetto, Paolo, De Leo, Yara, Giarrusso, Marina, Liberatore, Alessandro, Berghmans, David, Auchere, Frederic, Cuadrado, Regina Aznar, Chitta, Lakshmi P., Harra, Louise, Kraaikamp, Emil, Long, David M., Mandal, Sudip, Parenti, Susanna, Pelouze, Gabriel, Peter, Hardi, Rodriguez, Luciano, Schühle, Udo, Schwanitz, Conrad, Smith, Phil J., Verbeeck, Cis, and Zhukov, Andrei N.

Abstract

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 mechanism and sources are still unresolved, although candidate mechanisms include Alfvenic turbulence, shear-driven Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities, interchange reconnection, and geometrical effects related to the Parker spiral. This Letter presents observations from the Metis coronagraph on board a Solar Orbiter of a single large propagating S-shaped vortex, interpreted as the first evidence of a switchback in the solar corona. It originated above an active region with the related loop system bounded by open-field regions to the east and west. Observations, modeling, and theory provide strong arguments in favor of the interchange reconnection origin of switchbacks. Metis measurements suggest that the initiation of the switchback may also be an indicator of the origin of slow solar wind.

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2022
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16. Linking Small-scale Solar Wind Properties with Large-scale Coronal Source Regions through Joint Parker Solar Probe-Metis/Solar Orbiter Observations

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Telloni, Daniele, Zank, Gary P., Sorriso-Valvo, Luca, D'Amicis, Raffaella, Panasenco, Olga, Susino, Roberto, Bruno, Roberto, Perrone, Denise, Adhikari, Laxman, Liang, Haoming, Nakanotani, Masaru, Zhao, Lingling, Hadid, Lina Z., Sanchez-Cano, Beatriz, Verscharen, Daniel, Velli, Marco, Grimani, Catia, Marino, Raffaele, Carbone, Francesco, Mancuso, Salvatore, Biondo, Ruggero, Pagano, Paolo, Reale, Fabio, Bale, Stuart D., Kasper, Justin C., Case, Anthony W., de Wit, Thierry Dudok, Goetz, Keith, Harvey, Peter R., Korreck, Kelly E., Larson, Davin, Livi, Roberto, MacDowall, Robert J., Malaspina, David M., Pulupa, Marc, Stevens, Michael L., Whittlesey, Phyllis, Romoli, Marco, Andretta, Vincenzo, Da Deppo, Vania, Fineschi, Silvano, Heinzel, Petr, Moses, John D., Naletto, Giampiero, Nicolini, Gianalfredo, Spadaro, Daniele, Stangalini, Marco, Teriaca, Luca, Capobianco, Gerardo, Capuano, Giuseppe E., Casini, Chiara, Casti, Marta, Chioetto, Paolo, Corso, Alain J., De Leo, Yara, Fabi, Michele, Frassati, Federica, Frassetto, Fabio, Giordano, Silvio, Guglielmino, Salvo L., Jerse, Giovanna, Landini, Federico, Liberatore, Alessandro, Magli, Enrico, Massone, Giuseppe, Messerotti, Mauro, Pancrazzi, Maurizio, Pelizzo, Maria G., Romano, Paolo, Sasso, Clementina, Schuhle, Udo, Slemer, Alessandra, Straus, Thomas, Uslenghi, Michela, Volpicelli, Cosimo A., Zangrilli, Luca, Zuppella, Paola, Abbo, Lucia, Auchere, Frederic, Cuadrado, Regina Aznar, Berlicki, Arkadiusz, Ciaravella, Angela, Lamy, Philippe, Lanzafame, Alessandro, Malvezzi, Marco, Nicolosi, Piergiorgio, Nistico, Giuseppe, Peter, Hardi, Solanki, Sami K., Strachan, Leonard, Tsinganos, Kanaris, Ventura, Rita, Vial, Jean-Claude, Woch, Joachim, Zimbardo, Gaetano, Telloni, Daniele, Zank, Gary P., Sorriso-Valvo, Luca, D'Amicis, Raffaella, Panasenco, Olga, Susino, Roberto, Bruno, Roberto, Perrone, Denise, Adhikari, Laxman, Liang, Haoming, Nakanotani, Masaru, Zhao, Lingling, Hadid, Lina Z., Sanchez-Cano, Beatriz, Verscharen, Daniel, Velli, Marco, Grimani, Catia, Marino, Raffaele, Carbone, Francesco, Mancuso, Salvatore, Biondo, Ruggero, Pagano, Paolo, Reale, Fabio, Bale, Stuart D., Kasper, Justin C., Case, Anthony W., de Wit, Thierry Dudok, Goetz, Keith, Harvey, Peter R., Korreck, Kelly E., Larson, Davin, Livi, Roberto, MacDowall, Robert J., Malaspina, David M., Pulupa, Marc, Stevens, Michael L., Whittlesey, Phyllis, Romoli, Marco, Andretta, Vincenzo, Da Deppo, Vania, Fineschi, Silvano, Heinzel, Petr, Moses, John D., Naletto, Giampiero, Nicolini, Gianalfredo, Spadaro, Daniele, Stangalini, Marco, Teriaca, Luca, Capobianco, Gerardo, Capuano, Giuseppe E., Casini, Chiara, Casti, Marta, Chioetto, Paolo, Corso, Alain J., De Leo, Yara, Fabi, Michele, Frassati, Federica, Frassetto, Fabio, Giordano, Silvio, Guglielmino, Salvo L., Jerse, Giovanna, Landini, Federico, Liberatore, Alessandro, Magli, Enrico, Massone, Giuseppe, Messerotti, Mauro, Pancrazzi, Maurizio, Pelizzo, Maria G., Romano, Paolo, Sasso, Clementina, Schuhle, Udo, Slemer, Alessandra, Straus, Thomas, Uslenghi, Michela, Volpicelli, Cosimo A., Zangrilli, Luca, Zuppella, Paola, Abbo, Lucia, Auchere, Frederic, Cuadrado, Regina Aznar, Berlicki, Arkadiusz, Ciaravella, Angela, Lamy, Philippe, Lanzafame, Alessandro, Malvezzi, Marco, Nicolosi, Piergiorgio, Nistico, Giuseppe, Peter, Hardi, Solanki, Sami K., Strachan, Leonard, Tsinganos, Kanaris, Ventura, Rita, Vial, Jean-Claude, Woch, Joachim, and Zimbardo, Gaetano

Abstract

The solar wind measured in situ by Parker Solar Probe in the very inner heliosphere is studied in combination with the remote-sensing observation of the coronal source region provided by the METIS coronagraph aboard Solar Orbiter. The coronal outflows observed near the ecliptic by Metis on 2021 January 17 at 16:30 UT, between 3.5 and 6.3 R (circle dot) above the eastern solar limb, can be associated with the streams sampled by PSP at 0.11 and 0.26 au from the Sun, in two time intervals almost 5 days apart. The two plasma flows come from two distinct source regions, characterized by different magnetic field polarity and intensity at the coronal base. It follows that both the global and local properties of the two streams are different. Specifically, the solar wind emanating from the stronger magnetic field region has a lower bulk flux density, as expected, and is in a state of well-developed Alfvenic turbulence, with low intermittency. This is interpreted in terms of slab turbulence in the context of nearly incompressible magnetohydrodynamics. Conversely, the highly intermittent and poorly developed turbulent behavior of the solar wind from the weaker magnetic field region is presumably due to large magnetic deflections most likely attributed to the presence of switchbacks of interchange reconnection origin.

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2022
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17. Bridging the gap between Monte Carlo simulations and measurements of the LISA Pathfinder test-mass charging for LISA

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Grimani, Catia, Villani, Mattia, Fabi, Michele, Cesarini, Andrea, Sabbatini, Federico, Grimani, Catia, Villani, Mattia, Fabi, Michele, Cesarini, Andrea, and Sabbatini, Federico

Abstract

Cubic gold-platinum free-falling test masses (TMs) constitute the mirrors of future LISA and LISA-like interferometers for low-frequency gravitational wave detection in space. High-energy particles of Galactic and solar origin charge the TMs and thus induce spurious electrostatic and magnetic forces that limit the sensitivity of these interferometers. Prelaunch Monte Carlo simulations of the TM charging were carried out for the LISA Pathfinder (LPF) mission, that was planned to test the LISA instrumentation. Measurements and simulations were compared during the mission operations. The measured net TM charging agreed with simulation estimates, while the charging noise was three to four times higher. We aim to bridge the gap between LPF TM charging noise simulations and observations. New Monte Carlo simulations of the LPF TM charging due to both Galactic and solar particles were carried out with the FLUKA/LEI toolkit. This allowed propagating low-energy electrons down to a few electronvolt. These improved FLUKA/LEI simulations agree with observations gathered during the mission operations within statistical and Monte Carlo errors. The charging noise induced by Galactic cosmic rays is about one thousand charges per second. This value increases to tens of thousands charges per second during solar energetic particle events. Similar results are expected for the LISA TM charging., Comment: 11 pages, 9 figures

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2022
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18. Observation of Magnetic Switchback in the Solar Corona

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Telloni, Daniele, Zank, Gary P., Stangalini, Marco, Downs, Cooper, Liang, Haoming, Nakanotani, Masaru, Andretta, Vincenzo, Antonucci, Ester, Sorriso-Valvo, Luca, Adhikari, Laxman, Zhao, Lingling, Marino, Raffaele, Susino, Roberto, Grimani, Catia, Fabi, Michele, D'Amicis, Raffaella, Perrone, Denise, Bruno, Roberto, Carbone, Francesco, Mancuso, Salvatore, Romoli, Marco, Da Deppo, Vania, Fineschi, Silvano, Heinzel, Petr, Moses, John D., Naletto, Giampiero, Nicolini, Gianalfredo, Spadaro, Daniele, Teriaca, Luca, Frassati, Federica, Jerse, Giovanna, Landini, Federico, Pancrazzi, Maurizio, Russano, Giuliana, Sasso, Clementina, Berghmans, David, Auchère, Frédéric, Cuadrado, Regina Aznar, Chitta, Lakshmi P., Harra, Louise, Kraaikamp, Emil, Long, David M., Mandal, Sudip, Parenti, Susanna, Pelouze, Gabriel, Peter, Hardi, Rodriguez, Luciano, Schühle, Udo, Schwanitz, Conrad, Smith, Phil J., Verbeeck, Cis, Zhukov, Andrei N., Telloni, Daniele, Zank, Gary P., Stangalini, Marco, Downs, Cooper, Liang, Haoming, Nakanotani, Masaru, Andretta, Vincenzo, Antonucci, Ester, Sorriso-Valvo, Luca, Adhikari, Laxman, Zhao, Lingling, Marino, Raffaele, Susino, Roberto, Grimani, Catia, Fabi, Michele, D'Amicis, Raffaella, Perrone, Denise, Bruno, Roberto, Carbone, Francesco, Mancuso, Salvatore, Romoli, Marco, Da Deppo, Vania, Fineschi, Silvano, Heinzel, Petr, Moses, John D., Naletto, Giampiero, Nicolini, Gianalfredo, Spadaro, Daniele, Teriaca, Luca, Frassati, Federica, Jerse, Giovanna, Landini, Federico, Pancrazzi, Maurizio, Russano, Giuliana, Sasso, Clementina, Berghmans, David, Auchère, Frédéric, Cuadrado, Regina Aznar, Chitta, Lakshmi P., Harra, Louise, Kraaikamp, Emil, Long, David M., Mandal, Sudip, Parenti, Susanna, Pelouze, Gabriel, Peter, Hardi, Rodriguez, Luciano, Schühle, Udo, Schwanitz, Conrad, Smith, Phil J., Verbeeck, Cis, and Zhukov, Andrei N.

Abstract

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 mechanism and sources are still unresolved, although candidate mechanisms include Alfv\'enic turbulence, shear-driven Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities, interchange reconnection, and geometrical effects related to the Parker spiral. This Letter presents observations from the Metis coronagraph onboard Solar Orbiter of a single large propagating S-shaped vortex, interpreted as first evidence of a switchback in the solar corona. It originated above an active region with the related loop system bounded by open-field regions to the East and West. Observations, modeling, and theory provide strong arguments in favor of the interchange reconnection origin of switchbacks. Metis measurements suggest that the initiation of the switchback may also be an indicator of the origin of slow solar wind.

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2022
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19. Crowdfunding and Blockchain Economics

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Benjamin Ellman, Matthew, Macho Stadler, Inés, Fabi, Michele, Benjamin Ellman, Matthew, Macho Stadler, Inés, and Fabi, Michele

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La tesis doctoral 'Crowdfunding and Blockchain Economics', contiene tres artículos teóricos escritos por Michele Fabi, dos de los cuales (el segundo y tercer capítulo) han sido escritos en coautoría con Matthew Ellman. En términos generales, esta disertación investiga los fenómenos económicos resultantes de la digitalización de la economía, en particular los que se refieren al 'crowdfunding' y a los mercados de criptomonedas manejados a través de la tecnología 'blockchain'. La metodología de investigación es teórica, pero tiene claras implicaciones prácticas, ya que proporciona respuestas preliminares a cuestiones vitales sobre la sostenibilidad, planeación y regulación de dichas tecnologías, así como sobre sus impactos en el bienestar de la economía. El primer capítulo, 'The Cryptocurrency Mining Dilemma,' proporciona un modelo que evalúa la eficacia de como el diseño de una criptomoneda descentralizada paga a sus 'mineros' (cryptocurrency miners). Ellos son los que mantienen el sistema monetario, actualizando las transacciones de criptomonedas en su 'blockchain.' Específicamente, este capítulo examina si es mejor que reciban una compensación a través del señoraje de la inflación de la criptomoneda, o si es mejor que reciban tal compensación de las tarifas aplicadas a vendedores y compradores de bienes de consumo que usan la criptomoneda como herramienta de pago. El capítulo ofrece un marco teórico que, por un lado, modela las ganancias del comercio como motivo para mantener una criptomoneda descentralizada y, por otro, modela los incentivos de los individuos para volverse mineros, y así competir para actuar como validadores y comunicadores de todas las transacciones de una dada criptomoneda. El análisis demuestra que una criptomoneda que paga a sus mineros solo con el señoraje de la inflación no es óptima (ni viable), porque no les brinda incentivos para actualizar el 'blockchain', causando así una ineficiencia. El segundo capítulo, 'A Theory of Crowdfunding Dynam, The doctoral dissertation, entitled 'Crowdfunding and Blockchain Economics' contains three theoretical papers by Michele Fabi, among which two (chapters two and three) are written in co-authorship with his academic advisor Matthew Ellman. In general, the dissertation investigates economic phenomena related to the digitalization of the modern economy; in particular, crowdfunding and cryptocurrency markets managed by blockchain. These are practical technologies that are increasingly used and have entered the public debate because of new regulatory questions. The thesis is purely theoretical but already provides preliminary answers to vital questions about sustainability and welfare. So, it has a clear practical importance. The first chapter, 'The Cryptocurrency Mining Dilemma,' assesses the central question for the design of a decentralized cryptocurrency of how to reward its 'miners'. That is, those who upkeep the currency system by record-keeping its transactions on a blockchain. Concretely, the fundamental question that the chapter addresses is whether they are best compensated via seigniorage from currency inflation, or fees from buyers and sellers that trade using the cryptocurrency, or a mix of the two. The chapter provides a framework that, on one hand, models gains from trade as the motive for holding cryptocurrency and, on the other hand, models individuals' incentives to become miners and compete to act as validators and communicators of all transactions in the currency. The analysis proves that inflation-only is not optimal (and not even feasible) because it does cryptocurrency miners the incentives to update the record of transactions on the blockchain, causing an inefficiency. The second chapter, 'A Theory of Crowdfunding Dynamics,' provides a rigorous, formal analysis of bid dynamics in All-or-Nothing (AON) crowdfunding to explain the U-shape contribution patterns that crowdfunding data exhibit. The model developed in this chapter can predict possible dy

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2021

21. Recurrent galactic cosmic-ray flux modulation in L1 and geomagnetic activity during the declining phase of the solar cycle 24

Author

Grimani, Catia, Cesarini, Andrea, Fabi, Michele, Sabbatini, Federico, Telloni, Daniele, Villani, Mattia, Grimani, Catia, Cesarini, Andrea, Fabi, Michele, Sabbatini, Federico, Telloni, Daniele, and Villani, Mattia

Abstract

Galactic cosmic-ray (GCR) flux short-term variations ($<$1 month) in the inner heliosphere are mainly associated with the passage of high-speed solar wind streams (HSS) and interplanetary (IP) counterparts of coronal mass ejections (ICMEs). Data gathered with a particle detector flown on board the ESA LISA Pathfinder (LPF) spacecraft, during the declining part of the solar cycle 24 (February 2016 - July 2017) around the Lagrange point L1, have allowed to study the characteristics of recurrent cosmic-ray flux modulations above 70 MeV n$^{-1}$. %These modulations are observed when the solar wind speed is $>$ 400 km s$^{-1}$ and/or the IP magnetic field intensity $>$ 10 nT. It is shown that the amplitude and evolution of individual modulations depend in a unique way on both IP plasma parameters and particle flux intensity before HSS and ICMEs transit. By comparing the LPF data with those gathered contemporaneously with the magnetic spectrometer experiment AMS-02 on board the International Space Station and with those of Earth polar neutron monitors, the GCR flux modulation was studied at different energies during recurrent short-term variations. It is also aimed to set the near real-time particle observation requirements to disentangle the role of long and short-term variations of the GCR flux to evaluate the performance of high-sensitivity instruments in space such as the future interferometers for gravitational wave detection. Finally, the association between recurrent GCR flux variation observations in L1 and weak to moderate geomagnetic activity in 2016-2017 is discussed. Short-term recurrent GCR flux variations are good proxies of recurrent geomagnetic activity when the B$_z$ component of the IP magnetic field is directed northern.

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2020
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