Steven R. Cranmer

TL;DR: In this article, a series of models for the plasma properties along open magnetic flux tubes rooted in solar coronal holes, streamers, and active regions are presented, which represent the first self-consistent solutions that combine chromospheric heating driven by an empirically guided acoustic wave spectrum; coronal heating from Alfven waves that have been partially reflected, then damped by anisotropic turbulent cascade; and solar wind acceleration from gradients of gas pressure, acoustic wave pressure, and Alfven wave pressure.

TL;DR: The scientific objectives targeted by the SPP/FIELDS instrument, the instrument design itself, and the instrument concept of operations and planned data products are described.

TL;DR: In this article, a model of the global properties of Alfven waves in the solar atmosphere and the fast solar wind is presented, where linear non-WKB wave transport equations are solved from the photosphere to a distance past the orbit of the Earth, for wave periods ranging from 3 s to 3 days.

TL;DR: The Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP) Investigation on Solar Probe Plus is a four sensor instrument suite that provides complete measurements of the electrons and ionized helium and hydrogen that constitute the bulk of solar wind and coronal plasma.

TL;DR: In this paper, a self-consistent empirical model for several plasma parameters of a polar coronal hole near solar minimum, derived from observations with the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory Ultraviolet Coronagraph Spectrometer, is presented.