ICARUS: in-situ studies of the solar corona beyond Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-022-09878-1" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-022-09878-1</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10686-022-09878-1" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10686-022-09878-1</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

ICARUS: in-situ studies of the solar corona beyond Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter

Original language description

The primary scientific goal of ICARUS (Investigation of Coronal AcceleRation and heating of solar wind Up to the Sun), a mother-daughter satellite mission, proposed in response to the ESA ´Voyage 2050´ Call, will be to determine how the magnetic field and plasma dynamics in the outer solar atmosphere give rise to the corona, the solar wind, and the entire heliosphere. Reaching this goal will be a Rosetta Stone step, with results that are broadly applicable within the fields of space plasma physics and astrophysics. Within ESA's Cosmic Vision roadmap, these science goals address Theme 2: ´How does the Solar System work?´ by investigating basic processes occurring ´From the Sun to the edge of the Solar System´. ICARUS will not only advance our understanding of the plasma environment around our Sun, but also of the numerous magnetically active stars with hot plasma coronae. ICARUS I will perform the first direct in situ measurements of electromagnetic fields, particle acceleration, wave activity, energy distribution, and flows directly in the regions in which the solar wind emerges from the coronal plasma. ICARUS I will have a perihelion altitude of 1 solar radius and will cross the region where the major energy deposition occurs. The polar orbit of ICARUS I will enable crossing the regions where both the fast and slow winds are generated. It will probe the local characteristics of the plasma and provide unique information about the physical processes involved in the creation of the solar wind. ICARUS II will observe this region using remote-sensing instruments, providing simultaneous, contextual information about regions crossed by ICARUS I and the solar atmosphere below as observed by solar telescopes. It will thus provide bridges for understanding the magnetic links between the heliosphere and the solar atmosphere. Such information is crucial to our understanding of the plasma physics and electrodynamics of the solar atmosphere. ICARUS II will also play a very important relay role, enabling the radio-link with ICARUS I. It will receive, collect, and store information transmitted from ICARUS I during its closest approach to the Sun. It will also perform preliminary data processing before transmitting it to Earth. Performing such unique in situ observations in the area where presumably hazardous solar energetic particles are energized, ICARUS will provide fundamental advances in our capabilities to monitor and forecast the space radiation environment. Therefore, the results from the ICARUS mission will be extremely crucial for future space explorations, especially for long-term crewed space missions.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10308 - Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Experimental Astronomy

ISSN

0922-6435

e-ISSN

1572-9508

Volume of the periodical

54

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2-3

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

39

Pages from-to

277-315

UT code for WoS article

000941045200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85147366513