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Mirror Mode Storms Observed by Solar Orbiter

Fedorov, A.; Karlsson, T.; Owen, C. J. +8 more

Mirror modes (MMs) are ubiquitous in space plasma and grow from pressure anisotropy. Together with other instabilities, they play a fundamental role in constraining the free energy contained in the plasma. This study focuses on MMs observed in the solar wind by Solar Orbiter (SolO) for heliocentric distances between 0.5 and 1 AU. Typically, MMs ha…