NSWP: Multiscale Study of Magnetic Field-Line and Energetic Particle Dispersal in the Turbulent Solar Wind

首席研究员将对太阳和1AU之间典型的太阳风湍流场中带电高能粒子的动力学进行现实描述，包括所有中间非共振尺度。她打算在一个非常广泛的尺寸尺度范围内模拟磁场线（MFL）传输和分散，并研究这些领域中粒子的俯仰角散射和分散。利用ACE和Wind航天器的数据，PI计划对太阳耀斑粒子强度时间剖面进行详细分析，以寻找有关太阳风场线漂移和粒子散射的直接观测线索，并测试创新的理论和数值模型。她将模拟漂移的MFL和湍流SW中的粒子轨迹，以量化对漂移和纯粒子散射的影响，并沿MFL，粒子传输，MFL交叉场位移和MFL分离沿着MFL。这种多尺度的研究MFL和高能粒子在湍流太阳风中的扩散是至关重要的太阳高能粒子（SEP）在地球上的强度预测，因此解决了国家空间气象方案的目标。SEP对卫星运行、通信和太空宇航员构成重大威胁。除了空间物理学和空间天气预报之外，粒子在湍流磁场中的传输是天体物理学和等离子体物理学研究的基础。

The Principal Investigator will develop a realistic description of the dynamics of charged energetic particles in turbulent fields typical of the solar wind between the Sun and 1AU, including all intermediate non-resonant scales. She intends to model magnetic field-line (MFL) transport and dispersion on a very broad range of size scales, as well as investigate the pitch-angle scattering and dispersal of particles in those fields. Using data from the ACE and Wind spacecraft, the PI plans a detailed analysis of solar flare particle-intensity time profiles to search for direct observational clues about solar wind field-line wandering and particle scattering, and to test innovative theoretical and numerical models. She will simulate wandering MFLs and particle trajectories in the turbulent SW in order to quantify the effects on drifts and pure particle scattering across and along MFLs, particle transport, MFL cross-field displacement, and MFL separation. This multi-scale study of MFL and energetic particle dispersal in the turbulent solar wind is crucial to the prediction of solar energetic particle (SEP) intensities at Earth and therefore addresses the goals of the National Space Weather Program. SEPs pose major threats to satellite operations, communications, and astronauts in space. Beyond space physics and space weather forecasting, the transport of particles in turbulent magnetic fields is fundamental to research in astrophysics and plasma physics.