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HelioSwarm: A Multipoint, Multiscale Mission to Characterize Turbulence

  • Kristopher G. Klein*
  • , Harlan Spence*
  • , Olga Alexandrova
  • , Matthew Argall
  • , Lev Arzamasskiy
  • , Jay Bookbinder
  • , Theodore Broeren
  • , Damiano Caprioli
  • , Anthony Case
  • , Benjamin Chandran
  • , Li Jen Chen
  • , Ivan Dors
  • , Jonathan Eastwood
  • , Colin Forsyth
  • , Antoinette Galvin
  • , Vincent Genot
  • , Jasper Halekas
  • , Michael Hesse
  • , Butler Hine
  • , Tim Horbury
  • Lan Jian, Justin Kasper, Matthieu Kretzschmar, Matthew Kunz, Benoit Lavraud, Olivier Le Contel, Alfred Mallet, Bennett Maruca, William Matthaeus, Jonathan Niehof, Helen O’Brien, Christopher Owen, Alessandro Retinò, Christopher Reynolds, Owen Roberts, Alexander Schekochihin, Ruth Skoug, Charles Smith, Sonya Smith, John Steinberg, Michael Stevens, Adam Szabo, Jason TenBarge, Roy Torbert, Bernard Vasquez, Daniel Verscharen, Phyllis Whittlesey, Brittany Wickizer, Gary Zank, Ellen Zweibel
*Corresponding author for this work
  • University of Arizona
  • University of New Hampshire
  • Observatoire de Paris
  • Institute for Advanced Study
  • Ames Research Center
  • University of Chicago
  • FM Technologies (United States)
  • Goddard Space Flight Center
  • Imperial College London
  • University College London
  • Centre d'Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance
  • University of Iowa
  • Université d'Orléans
  • Princeton University
  • National Council for Scientific Research
  • CNRS/Sorbonne Université/Université Paris-Saclay/Observatoire de Paris/Ecole Polytechnique Institut Polytechnique de Paris
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • University of Delaware
  • Institute of Astronomy
  • Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • University of Oxford
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian
  • University of Alabama in Huntsville
  • University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Article number74
Number of pages44
JournalSpace Science Reviews
Volume219
Issue number8
Early online date03 Nov 2023
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01 Dec 2023
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Heliophysics
  • HelioSwarm
  • NASA mission
  • Space plasma
  • Turbulence

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