These are additional objectives that teams would like to address but are not included in the mission baseline as described in the Red Book.
- 5.1 Additional Science Objectives of EUI
- 5.2 Additional Science Objectives of EPD
- 5.3 Additional Science Objectives of MAG
- 5.4 Additional Science Objectives of METIS
- 5.4.1 Hydrogen Ly-α emission by the atmosphere of planets (e.g. Venus, Jupiter)
- 5.4.2 Study of Sungrazing comets
- 5.4.2.1 Understand cometary properties and evolution by mapping the hydrogen Ly-α emission, proportional to the outgassing rate, along its trajectory close to the Sun
- 5.4.2.2 Investigate the fragmentation of the cometary nucleus from the variation with the heliocentric distance of the outgassing rate and from the splitting of the cometary tail
- 5.5 Additional Science Objectives of PHI
- 5.6 Additional Science Objectives of RPW
- 5.7 Additional Science Objectives of SoloHI
- 5.8 Additional Science Objectives of SPICE
- 5.9 Additional Science Objectives of STIX
- 5.10 Additional Science Objectives of SWA
- 5.10.1 What is the temporal variability of 3D thermal particle distributions?
- 5.10.2 How are proton and helium temperatures related to their relative drift, is there any evidence for resonant heating?
- 5.10.3 How common are proton beams, where do they come from and what impact do they have on ambient conditions (wave generation, heating)?
- 5.10.4 Identify and characterise the various forms of free energy in the particle distribution functions
- 5.10.5 Fully characterise the radial and latitudinal variability of 3D thermal particle distributions under different solar wind conditions
- 5.10.6 Electron halo population
- 5.10.7 How do the combined electron strahl and composition signatures vary across reconnecting solar wind current sheets?