About this Research Topic
Understanding how the Sun’s activity regulates the response of the Earth's and other planets' magnetospheres has attracted great interest from the scientific community over the last few years. Planetary Space Weather is the general term referring to the science devoted to the study of the interaction between the Sun and the bodies in the heliosphere. This topic combines several fields such as i) solar corona, ii) interplanetary medium, and iii) planetary environments. Specifically, forecasting how the terrestrial and planetary environments connect magnetically to the Sun is a challenging task that can be tackled only by joining models, numerical simulations and observations.
The fleet of solar and planetary space missions (with the recent launches of Solar Orbiter and BepiColombo, for the study of the Sun and Mercury respectively) significantly advances our understanding of space weather phenomena in the Solar System and greatly supports theoretical models. The missions enable a large variety of plasma and magnetic field observations, both with remote-sensing and in-situ instruments and dedicated to different bodies in the heliosphere. Recognized by many scientists as the golden age of the physics of the Sun and planetary systems, this unprecedented observational capability allows in-depth investigation of the relationship between solar and terrestrial/planetary environments, in particular in terms of the magnetic connectivity between them and the solar corona.
The scope of this Research Topic is to address Space Weather science and Space Weather awareness related to the chain of phenomena at the base of the onset and propagation of disturbances (both transient, such as Coronal Mass Ejections or shocks, or advected by the solar wind as turbulence and flux ropes) from the Sun into the inner heliosphere and their interaction with terrestrial/planetary environments. Eventually, a collection around such crucially important research field will provide the interplanetary scientific community with new methods, models and tools dedicated to Planetary Space Weather. This Research Topic aims to collect pioneering observational and theoretical research papers which will help to advance our knowledge in:
- tracing propagation of solar events through the Solar System,
- detecting and predicting planetary events driven by the Sun's activity,
- forecasting the effectiveness of interplanetary disturbances on planetary magnetospheres and atmospheres.
The fleet of solar and planetary space missions (with the recent launches of Solar Orbiter and BepiColombo, for the study of the Sun and Mercury respectively) significantly advances our understanding of space weather phenomena in the Solar System and greatly supports theoretical models. The missions enable a large variety of plasma and magnetic field observations, both with remote-sensing and in-situ instruments and dedicated to different bodies in the heliosphere. Recognized by many scientists as the golden age of the physics of the Sun and planetary systems, this unprecedented observational capability allows in-depth investigation of the relationship between solar and terrestrial/planetary environments, in particular in terms of the magnetic connectivity between them and the solar corona.
The scope of this Research Topic is to address Space Weather science and Space Weather awareness related to the chain of phenomena at the base of the onset and propagation of disturbances (both transient, such as Coronal Mass Ejections or shocks, or advected by the solar wind as turbulence and flux ropes) from the Sun into the inner heliosphere and their interaction with terrestrial/planetary environments. Eventually, a collection around such crucially important research field will provide the interplanetary scientific community with new methods, models and tools dedicated to Planetary Space Weather. This Research Topic aims to collect pioneering observational and theoretical research papers which will help to advance our knowledge in:
- tracing propagation of solar events through the Solar System,
- detecting and predicting planetary events driven by the Sun's activity,
- forecasting the effectiveness of interplanetary disturbances on planetary magnetospheres and atmospheres.
Keywords: Space Weather, Sun, Interplanetary medium, Planetary systems, Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)
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