Listed are all scientific papers resulting from an ISSI activity written or co-authored by ISSI Team members, Working Group members, Workshop participants, visitors or staff members.
Using deep JWST/NIRSpec spectra from the Blue Jay survey, we performed the first systematic investigation of neutral gas content in massive galaxies at Cosmic Noon based on the Ca II H, K absorption lines. We analyzed a sample of nine galaxies at 1.8 < z < 2.8 with log M*/M⊙ > 10.6, for which we detected neutral gas absorption both in Ca II and in Na I.
On December 2023, the Juno spacecraft made a flyby of Io above the northern hemisphere at a closest approach (CA) altitude of ∼1,500 km (PJ57). The Juno/Waves and Radio‐occultation measurements showed a surprising large electron density ∼28,000 cm−3 near closest approach. We run 2D numerical simulations of the plasma/atmosphere interaction to explore the causes of this high plasma density.
Collisionless plasma shocks are a common feature of many space and astrophysical systems. They are sources of high-energy particles and nonthermal emission, channeling as much as 20% of the shock’s energy into nonthermal particles. The generation and acceleration of these nonthermal particles have been previously studied and shown to affect shock hydrodynamics to the zeroth order.
The emission of volatiles from the surface and subsurface of planetary bodies can provide fundamental knowledge concerning their formation, evolution, and structure. There are a variety of physical processes that shape the structural, kinematic and thermal behavior of the released material.
The Lower Thermosphere–Ionosphere (LTI) is the interface region between the Earth’s atmosphere and space. It is modulated by the energy and momentum deposition from the magnetosphere above and by the impacting waves from the lower atmosphere. The LTI region is defined by the co-existence and interaction of neutral and ionized species within the region’s electric and magnetic fields.
Interstellar extinction is a major obstacle in determining accurate stellar parameters from photometry near the Galactic disk. It is especially true for globular clusters at low galactic latitudes, which suffer from significant amounts of spatially variable reddening. Although differential reddening maps are available for tens of clusters, establishing and validating the absolute zero-point of relative maps is a challenge.
The heliospheric current sheet (HCS) is an important large-scale structure of the heliosphere, and, for the first time, the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) mission enables us to study its properties statistically, close to the Sun.
Potential field source surface (PFSS) models are widely used to study the solar corona and form the basis for solar wind forecasting, yet they often fail to reproduce observed properties of coronal holes. We analyze 702 observed coronal holes between 2010 and 2019 and compute corresponding PFSS magnetic field extrapolations to examine their magnetic topology and loop statistics, comparing them with quiet-Sun regions.
Magnetic switchbacks are fluctuations in the solar wind in which the interplanetary magnetic field sharply deflects away from its background direction so as to create folds in magnetic field lines while remaining of roughly constant magnitude. The magnetic field and velocity fluctuations are extremely well correlated in a way corresponding to Alfvénic fluctuations propagating away from the Sun. For a background field which is nearly radial this causes an outwardly propagating jet to form.
Global ideal magnetohydrodynamic models of the heliosphere typically predict a greatly exaggerated magnetic field pile-up in the inner heliosheath (IHS), the region between the termination shock and heliopause. However, Voyager 1 and 2 observations show only a gradual increase throughout this region.
