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Operational

Wind WAVES

The WAVES instrument, onboard the WIND spacecraft, will provide comprehensive measurements of the radio and plasma wave phenomena which occur in the solar wind upstream of the Earth's magnetosphere and in key regions of the magnetosphere.

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The Sun and the Earth emit radio waves that affect particles in the interplanetary plasma and carry some of the energy flowing there. The Radio and Plasma Wave experiment will measure the properties of these waves and other wave modes of the plasma over a wide frequency range. Analyses of these measurements, in coordination with the other onboard plasma, energetic particles, and field measurements, will further the understanding of solar wind and interplanetary plasma processes.

Related Publications

2025. "Solar Cycle Variation of Sustained Gamma-ray Emission Events from the Sun and Related Energetic Events.", Book of Proceedings Solar Influences on the Magnetosphere, Ionosphere and Atmosphere, 17 24-33 [10.31401/ws.2025.proc.04] [Proceedings]

2025. "First Detection of Low-frequency Striae in Interplanetary Type III Radio Bursts.", The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 985 (2): L27 [10.3847/2041-8213/add688] [Journal Article/Letter]

2024. "CME-associated type-IV radio bursts: The solar paradigm and the unique case of AD Leo.", Proceedings of the IAUS 388, [10.48550/arXiv.2410.00787] [Proceedings]

2024. "A catalog of multi-vantage point observations of type-II bursts: Statistics and correlations.", Proceedings of the IAUS388, 5 [10.48550/arXiv.2410] [Proceedings]

2022. "The Sun and Space Weather.", Atmosphere, 13 (11): 1781 [10.3390/atmos13111781] [Journal Article/Letter]

Contact Us

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