EGU21-6812
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-6812
EGU General Assembly 2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

HelioSwarm: Leveraging Multi-Point, Multi-Scale Spacecraft Observations to Characterize Turbulence

Kristopher Klein1, Harlan Spence2, and the HelioSwarm Science Team*
Kristopher Klein and Harlan Spence and the HelioSwarm Science Team
  • 1University of Arizona, Department of Planetary Sciences, Tucson, United States of America (kris.klein@gmail.com)
  • 2University of New Hampshire, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Durham, United States of America
  • *A full list of authors appears at the end of the abstract

There are many fundamental questions about the temporal and spatial structure of turbulence in space plasmas. Answering these questions is complicated by the multi-scale nature of the turbulent transfer of mass, momentum, and energy, with characteristic scales spanning many orders of magnitude. The solar wind is an ideal environment in which to measure turbulence, but multi-point observations with spacecraft separations spanning these scales are needed to simultaneously characterize structure and cross-scale couplings. In this work, we use synthetic multi-point spacecraft data extracted from numerical simulations to demonstrate the utility of multi-point, multi-scale measurements, in preparation for data from future multi-spacecraft observatories. We use the baseline orbit design for the HelioSwarm mission concept to explore the effects of different inter-spacecraft separations and geometries on the accuracy of reconstructed magnetic fields, cascade rates, and correlation functions using well-established analysis techniques.

HelioSwarm Science Team:

Matt Kunz, Lev Arzamasskiy, Jason TenBarge, Owen Roberts, Ivan Dors, Theodore Broeren, Waverly Gorman, Charles Smith, Bill Matthaeus, Colin Forsyth, Bernard Vasquez, Jasper Halekas, Adam Szabo, Justin Kasper, Tim Horbury, Olivier Le Contel, Benoit Lavraud, Antoinette Galvin, Anthony Case, Jonathan Eastwood, Alessandro Retino, Phyllis Whittlesey, Lan Jian, Gary Zank, Michael Stevens, Bennett Maruca, Matthew Argall, Ellen Zweibel, Christopher Reynolds, Daminao Caprioli, Li-Jen Chen, Ben Chandran, Olga Alexandrova, Alex Schekochihin, Alfred Mallet, Daniel Verscharen, Ruth Skoug, John Steinberg

How to cite: Klein, K. and Spence, H. and the HelioSwarm Science Team: HelioSwarm: Leveraging Multi-Point, Multi-Scale Spacecraft Observations to Characterize Turbulence, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-6812, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-6812, 2021.