EGU26-22305, updated on 14 Mar 2026
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu26-22305
EGU General Assembly 2026
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Poster | Thursday, 07 May, 08:30–10:15 (CEST), Display time Thursday, 07 May, 08:30–12:30
 
Hall X4, X4.156
Parker Solar Probe observations of magnetic flux ropes from within the solar corona
Volker Bothmer1, Stuart Bale2, Greta Cappello3, Iulia Chifu1, Craig Deforest4, Sarah Gibson5, Phillip Hess6, Mark Linton6, Enno Müller1, Erika Palmerio7, Marc Pulupa2, Shaheda Shaik6,8, Guillermo Stenborg9, Michael Stevens10, Manuela Temmer3, Psp Team, and Punch Team
Volker Bothmer et al.
  • 1Institut für Astrophysik und Geophysik, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany
  • 2Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
  • 3Institute of Physics, University of Graz, Austria
  • 4Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, USA
  • 5National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, USA
  • 6Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, USA
  • 7Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, CA 92121, USA
  • 8George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
  • 9Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD, USA
  • 10Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, MA, USA

Parker Solar Probe (PSP) is the first spacecraft deeply diving into the solar corona. By the EGU 2026, PSP will have completed 27 orbits, including 6 perihelia as close as 9.86 solar radii. PSP reached the ultimate perihelion of 9.86 solar radii first on 24 December 2024, and every 88 days afterwards. This presentation presents a summary of the white-light, plasma and magnetic field properties of magnetic flux rope CMEs and ICMEs observed remotely and in-situ within the solar corona by the WISPR camera and the SWEAP and FIELDS plasma and magnetic field instruments. The study includes events als observed by the imagers of the PUNCH mission. 

How to cite: Bothmer, V., Bale, S., Cappello, G., Chifu, I., Deforest, C., Gibson, S., Hess, P., Linton, M., Müller, E., Palmerio, E., Pulupa, M., Shaik, S., Stenborg, G., Stevens, M., Temmer, M., Team, P., and Team, P.: Parker Solar Probe observations of magnetic flux ropes from within the solar corona, EGU General Assembly 2026, Vienna, Austria, 3–8 May 2026, EGU26-22305, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu26-22305, 2026.