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    Solar Orbiter unveiling the energetic particle environment around Venus!
    R. C. Allen
    • Jun 3, 2021
    • 1 min

    Solar Orbiter unveiling the energetic particle environment around Venus!

    In order for Solar Orbiter to get into its final orbit, it needs to conduct several Venus gravity assist maneuvers. During the first of...
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    Solar Orbiter's first anniversary
    R. C. Allen
    • Feb 9, 2021
    • 1 min

    Solar Orbiter's first anniversary

    Solar Orbiter launched a year ago on February 9, 2020, 11:03 PM EST. It has been a crazy year getting the instruments operational and...
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    Parker Solar Probe Encounter 7 - Working with friends
    R. C. Allen
    • Jan 17, 2021
    • 1 min

    Parker Solar Probe Encounter 7 - Working with friends

    Today Parker Solar Probe reached its 7th perihelion (closest part of the orbit to the Sun)! Since this perihelion aligned well with the...
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    Investigating the structure of Corotating Interaction Regions (CIRs)
    R. C. Allen
    • Jan 14, 2021
    • 1 min

    Investigating the structure of Corotating Interaction Regions (CIRs)

    It is truly an exciting times in Heliophysics! Having a multitude of spacecraft missions in different orbits is presenting opportunities...
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    Transport of Suprathermal Ions - Solar Orbiter
    R. C. Allen
    • Dec 20, 2020
    • 1 min

    Transport of Suprathermal Ions - Solar Orbiter

    We have a new paper our today in Astronomy & Astrophysics! Comparing observations from the Suprathermal Ion Spectrograph (SIS) sensor on...
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    Living Catalog of Stream Interaction Regions
    R. C. Allen
    • Dec 7, 2020
    • 1 min

    Living Catalog of Stream Interaction Regions

    Stream Interactions Regions (SIRs) are long lived large scale structures in the solar wind that are able to accelerate ions to high...
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    Predictive Capabilities and Limitations of Stream Interaction Region Observations at Different Solar
    R. C. Allen
    • Apr 16, 2020
    • 1 min

    Predictive Capabilities and Limitations of Stream Interaction Region Observations at Different Solar

    Stream interaction regions (SIRs) form when fast solar wind overtakes slow solar wind. These structures are long‐lasting and can corotate...
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    First Observations by Parker Solar Probe!
    R. C. Allen
    • Feb 3, 2020
    • 1 min

    First Observations by Parker Solar Probe!

    The first set of Parker Solar Probe papers are starting to come out! In our paper, we investigated stream interaction regions observed...
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    R. C. Allen
    • May 13, 2019
    • 1 min

    Suprathermal Ions in the Outer Heliosphere: New co-authorship!

    A co-authored paper accepted earlier this year is now online! The paper "Suprathermal Ions in the Outer Heliosphere" compares the energy...
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    R. C. Allen
    • Apr 9, 2019
    • 1 min

    New co-authorship on waves at magnetotail reconnection sites!

    A paper I'm co-author on was recently accepted to GRL! It is a really interesting study looking into how electron crescent distributions...
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    R. C. Allen
    • Mar 19, 2019
    • 1 min

    New co-authored paper on SEPs!

    A paper entitled, "3He-rich solar energetic particle events with no measurable 4He intensity increases" that I am co-author on has been...
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    R. C. Allen
    • Feb 19, 2019
    • 1 min

    I got a paper highlighted!

    This is not exactly new news, but it is new news for my blog. Last year I published a paper on internal versus external sources of plasma...
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    R. C. Allen
    • Jan 29, 2018
    • 1 min

    Second co-authorship of the year... and a submitted paper!

    We are off to a good start. Last week, Jim Burch had a GRL paper accepted that I am co-author on. It is an MMS paper looking at localized...
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    R. C. Allen
    • Jan 22, 2018
    • 1 min

    Welcoming 2018 in with a new co-authorship!

    Another year, another co-authorship! Now on early view! Also, I should be submitting a Cassini paper soon, more to come! Burch, J. L., J....
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