Seven Sisters: a mission to study fundamental plasma physical processes in the solar wind and a pathfinder to advance space weather prediction

Seven Sisters: a mission to study fundamental plasma physical processes in the solar wind and a pathfinder to advance space weather prediction

This paper summarizes the Seven Sisters solar wind mission concept and the outstanding science questions motivating the mission science objectives. The Seven Sisters mission includes seven individual spacecraft designed to uncover fundamental physical processes in the solar wind and provides up to ≈...

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Main Authors: Katariina Nykyri, Xuanye Ma, Brandon Burkholder, Yu-Lun Liou, Roberto Cuéllar, Shiva Kavosi, Joseph E. Borovsky, Jeff Parker, Mitchell Rosen, Lauren De Moudt, Robert Wilkes Ebert, Keiichi Ogasawara, Merav Opher, David Gary Sibeck, Simone Di Matteo, Nicholeen Viall, Samantha Wallace, Therese M. Jorgensen, Michael Hesse, Matthew J. West, Laxman Adhikari, Matthew R. Argall, Jan Egedal, Frederick Wilder, Jeffrey Broll, Gangkai Poh, Simon Wing, Christopher Russell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
Subjects:
solar wind
coronal mass ejections
stream interaction regions
heliospheric current sheet
particle acceleration
magnetic reconnection
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspas.2023.1179344/full

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