HelioSwarm: A Multipoint, Multiscale Mission to Characterize Turbulence

Klein, Kristopher G.; Spence, Harlan; Alexandrova, Olga; Argall, Matthew; Arzamasskiy, Lev; Bookbinder, Jay; Broeren, Theodore; Caprioli, Damiano; Case, Anthony; Chandran, Benjamin; Chen, Li-Jen; Dors, Ivan; Eastwood, Jonathan; Forsyth, Colin; Galvin, Antoinette; Genot, Vincent; Halekas, Jasper; Hesse, Michael; Hine, Butler; Horbury, Tim; Jian, Lan; Kasper, Justin; Kretzschmar, Matthieu; Kunz, Matthew; Lavraud, Benoit; Le Contel, Olivier; Mallet, Alfred; Maruca, Bennett; Matthaeus, William; Niehof, Jonathan; O’Brien, Helen; Owen, Christopher; Retinò, Alessandro; Reynolds, Christopher; Roberts, Owen; Schekochihin, Alexander; Skoug, Ruth; Smith, Charles; Smith, Sonya; Steinberg, John; Stevens, Michael; Szabo, Adam; TenBarge, Jason; Torbert, Roy; Vasquez, Bernard; Verscharen, Daniel; Whittlesey, Phyllis; Wickizer, Brittany; Zank, Gary; Zweibel, Ellen

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Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona

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2023-11-03

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Klein, K. G., Spence, H., Alexandrova, O., Argall, M., Arzamasskiy, L., Bookbinder, J., ... & Zweibel, E. (2023). HelioSwarm: a multipoint, multiscale mission to characterize turbulence. Space Science Reviews, 219(8), 74.

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HelioSwarm (HS) is a NASA Medium-Class Explorer mission of the Heliophysics Division designed to explore the dynamic three-dimensional mechanisms controlling the physics of plasma turbulence, a ubiquitous process occurring in the heliosphere and in plasmas throughout the universe. This will be accomplished by making simultaneous measurements at nine spacecraft with separations spanning magnetohydrodynamic and sub-ion spatial scales in a variety of near-Earth plasmas. In this paper, we describe the scientific background for the HS investigation, the mission goals and objectives, the observatory reference trajectory and instrumentation implementation before the start of Phase B. Through multipoint, multiscale measurements, HS promises to reveal how energy is transferred across scales and boundaries in plasmas throughout the universe.

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0038-6308

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1572-9672

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10.1007/s11214-023-01019-0

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