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SOLARIS: Solar Sail Investigation of the Sun

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In this paper, we detail the scientific objectives and outline a strawman payload of the SOLAR sail Investigation of the Sun (SOLARIS). The science objectives are to study the 3D structure of the solar magnetic and velocity field, the variation of total solar irradiance with latitude, and the structure of the corona. We show how we can meet these science objective using solar-sail technologies currently under development. We provide a tentative mission profile considering several trade-off approaches. We also provide a tentative mass budget breakdown and a perspective for a programmatic implementation.

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Acknowledgments

TA gratefully acknowledges support by the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales. DM and AV are supported by NASA and ONR funds.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale, Orsay Cedex, France

    Thierry Appourchaux & Frédéric Auchère

  2. EUI (Co-PI), PHI (Lead Co-I), SPICE (Co-I) (All Solar orbiter), Deputy Director, Solar and Stellar Physics Department, Bâtiment 121, Orsay, France

    Thierry Appourchaux

  3. EUI (Solar Orbiter) Instrument Scientist, Solar and Stellar Physics Department, Bâtiment 121, Orsay, France

    Frédéric Auchère

  4. METIS (Solar Orbiter) Principal Investigator, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino, Italy

    Ester Antonucci

  5. Director, Department Solar and Stellar Interiors, Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, 37191, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany

    Laurent Gizon

  6. Institut für Astrophysik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 37077, Göttingen, Germany

    Laurent Gizon

  7. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G4 0LT, UK

    Malcolm MacDonald

  8. Senior Lecturer, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Lord Hope Bld, 141 St James Road, Glasgow, G4 0LT, UK

    Malcolm MacDonald

  9. Associate Professor, Solar-C project office, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo, Japan

    Hirohisa Hara

  10. Solar and Heliospheric Physics Branch, Space Science Division Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, USA

    Takashi Sekii & Daniel Moses

  11. Head, Coronal and Heliophysics Section, Solar and Heliospheric Physics Branch, Space Science Division Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, USA

    Angelos Vourlidas

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  1. Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom

    Malcolm Macdonald

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Appourchaux, T. et al. (2014). SOLARIS: Solar Sail Investigation of the Sun. In: Macdonald, M. (eds) Advances in Solar Sailing. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34907-2_18

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