THOR contribution to space weather science

A. Vaivads , H. J. Opgenoorth , Alessandro Retinò (1) , Y. V. Khotyaintsev (2) , J. Soucek , F. Valentini , C. Philippe Escoubet (3) , C. H. K. Chen , Rami O. Vainio , A. Fazakerley , B. Lavraud (4) , Y. Narita , M. F. Marcucci , H. Kucharek , S. D. Bale , T. E. Moore , L. M. Kistler , M. Samara

1 LPP - Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas
2 IRF - Swedish Institute of Space Physics [Uppsala / Kiruna]
3 ESTEC - European Space Research and Technology Centre
4 IRAP - Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie

Turbulence Heating ObserveR - THOR is a mission proposal to study energy dissipation and particle acceleration in turbulent space plasma. THOR will focus on turbulent plasma in pristine solar wind, bow shock and magnetosheath. The orbit of THOR is tuned to spend long times in those regions allowing THOR to obtain high resolution data sets that can be used also for space weather science. Here we will discuss the space weather science questions that can be addressed and significantly advanced using THOR. Link to THOR: http://thor.irfu.se.

Domaines: Physique des plasmas [physics.plasm-ph]; Astrophysique [astro-ph]

A. Vaivads, H. J. Opgenoorth, Alessandro Retinò, Y. V. Khotyaintsev, J. Soucek, et al.. THOR contribution to space weather science. 2016 AGU Fall Meeting, Dec 2016, San Francisco, California, United States. 11, pp.SH11C-2275, 2016. ⟨hal-02861305⟩