The FIELDS Instrument Suite for Solar Probe Plus: Measuring the Coronal Plasma and Magnetic Field, Plasma Waves and Turbulence, and Radio Signatures of Solar Transients.

Academic Article

Abstract

  • NASA's Solar Probe Plus (SPP) mission will make the first in situ measurements of the solar corona and the birthplace of the solar wind. The FIELDS instrument suite on SPP will make direct measurements of electric and magnetic fields, the properties of in situ plasma waves, electron density and temperature profiles, and interplanetary radio emissions, amongst other things. Here, we describe the scientific objectives targeted by the SPP/FIELDS instrument, the instrument design itself, and the instrument concept of operations and planned data products.

    • Authors

  • Bale, SD
  • Goetz, K
  • Harvey, PR
  • Turin, P
  • Bonnell, JW
  • de Wit, T Dudok
  • Ergun, RE
  • MacDowall, RJ
  • Pulupa, M
  • Andre, M
  • Bolton, M
  • Bougeret, J-L
  • Bowen, TA
  • Burgess, D
  • Cattell, CA
  • Chandran, Benjamin
  • Chaston, CC
  • Chen, CHK
  • Choi, MK
  • Connerney, JE
  • Cranmer, S
  • Diaz-Aguado, M
  • Donakowski, W
  • Drake, JF
  • Farrell, WM
  • Fergeau, P
  • Fermin, J
  • Fischer, J
  • Fox, N
  • Glaser, D
  • Goldstein, M
  • Gordon, D
  • Hanson, E
  • Harris, SE
  • Hayes, LM
  • Hinze, JJ
  • Hollweg, JV
  • Horbury, TS
  • Howard, RA
  • Hoxie, V
  • Jannet, G
  • Karlsson, M
  • Kasper, JC
  • Kellogg, PJ
  • Kien, M
  • Klimchuk, JA
  • Krasnoselskikh, VV
  • Krucker, S
  • Lynch, JJ
  • Maksimovic, M
  • Malaspina, DM
  • Marker, S
  • Martin, P
  • Martinez-Oliveros, J
  • McCauley, J
  • McComas, DJ
  • McDonald, T
  • Meyer-Vernet, N
  • Moncuquet, M
  • Monson, SJ
  • Mozer, FS
  • Murphy, SD
  • Odom, J
  • Oliverson, R
  • Olson, J
  • Parker, EN
  • Pankow, D
  • Phan, T
  • Quataert, E
  • Quinn, T
  • Ruplin, SW
  • Salem, C
  • Seitz, D
  • Sheppard, DA
  • Siy, A
  • Stevens, K
  • Summers, D
  • Szabo, A
  • Timofeeva, M
  • Vaivads, A
  • Velli, M
  • Yehle, A
  • Werthimer, D
  • Wygant, JR

    • Status

    Publication Date

  • December 2016

    • Has Subject Area

    Published In

    Keywords

  • Coronal heating
  • Solar Probe Plus

    • Digital Object Identifier (doi)

    Start Page

  • 49

    • End Page

  • 82

    • Volume

  • 204

    • Issue

  • 1-4