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, 20211 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20191 min read
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, 20191 min read
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, 20191 min read
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, 20191 min read
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, 20181 min read
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, 20181 min read
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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