Wilson III, LB;
Brosius, AL;
Gopalswamy, N;
Nieves-Chinchilla, T;
Szabo, A;
Hurley, K;
Phan, T;
... TenBarge, J; + view all
(2021)
A Quarter Century of Wind Spacecraft Discoveries.
Reviews of Geophysics
, 59
(2)
, Article e2020RG000714. 10.1029/2020RG000714.
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Abstract
The Wind spacecraft, launched on November 1, 1994, is a critical element in NASA’s Heliophysics System Observatory (HSO)—a fleet of spacecraft created to understand the dynamics of the Sun-Earth system. The combination of its longevity (>25 years in service), its diverse complement of instrumentation, and high resolution and accurate measurements has led to it becoming the “standard candle” of solar wind measurements. Wind has over 55 selectable public data products with over ∼1,100 total data variables (including OMNI data products) on SPDF/CDAWeb alone. These data have led to paradigm shifting results in studies of statistical solar wind trends, magnetic reconnection, large-scale solar wind structures, kinetic physics, electromagnetic turbulence, the Van Allen radiation belts, coronal mass ejection topology, interplanetary and interstellar dust, the lunar wake, solar radio bursts, solar energetic particles, and extreme astrophysical phenomena such as gamma-ray bursts. This review introduces the mission and instrument suites then discusses examples of the contributions by Wind to these scientific topics that emphasize its importance to both the fields of heliophysics and astrophysics.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | A Quarter Century of Wind Spacecraft Discoveries |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1029/2020RG000714 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1029/2020RG000714 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2021. The Authors. This article has been contributed to by US Government employees and their work is in the public domain in the USA. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Space and Climate Physics UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Space and Climate Physics > Advanced Instrumentation Systems |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10123706 |
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