R. C. Allen
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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Science Updates
Posts about the science I have been working on (publications, presentations, etc)
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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