Science Updates

In order for Solar Orbiter to get into its final orbit, it needs to conduct several Venus gravity assist maneuvers. During the first of...

Solar Orbiter launched a year ago on February 9, 2020, 11:03 PM EST. It has been a crazy year getting the instruments operational and...

Today Parker Solar Probe reached its 7th perihelion (closest part of the orbit to the Sun)! Since this perihelion aligned well with the...

It is truly an exciting times in Heliophysics! Having a multitude of spacecraft missions in different orbits is presenting opportunities...

We have a new paper our today in Astronomy & Astrophysics! Comparing observations from the Suprathermal Ion Spectrograph (SIS) sensor on...

Stream Interactions Regions (SIRs) are long lived large scale structures in the solar wind that are able to accelerate ions to high...

Stream interaction regions (SIRs) form when fast solar wind overtakes slow solar wind. These structures are long‐lasting and can corotate...

The first set of Parker Solar Probe papers are starting to come out! In our paper, we investigated stream interaction regions observed...

A co-authored paper accepted earlier this year is now online! The paper "Suprathermal Ions in the Outer Heliosphere" compares the energy...

A paper I'm co-author on was recently accepted to GRL! It is a really interesting study looking into how electron crescent distributions...

A paper entitled, "3He-rich solar energetic particle events with no measurable 4He intensity increases" that I am co-author on has been...

This is not exactly new news, but it is new news for my blog. Last year I published a paper on internal versus external sources of plasma...

We are off to a good start. Last week, Jim Burch had a GRL paper accepted that I am co-author on. It is an MMS paper looking at localized...

Another year, another co-authorship! Now on early view! Also, I should be submitting a Cassini paper soon, more to come! Burch, J. L., J....