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## Authors and Affiliations

Samuel T. Badman<fnref n="1" /> ID • Naïs Fargette<fnref n="2" />,<fnref n="3" /> ID • Lorenzo Matteini<fnref n="3" /> ID •

Oleksiy V. Agapitov<fnref n="4" />,<fnref n="5" /> ID • Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti<fnref n="6" /> ID • Stuart D. Bale<fnref n="4" /> ID •

Srijan Bharati Das<fnref n="1" /> ID • Nina Bizien⁷ ID • Trevor A. Bowen<fnref n="4" /> ID •

Thierry Dudok de Wit⁷,⁸ ID • Clara Froment⁷ ID • Timothy Horbury<fnref n="3" /> ID • Jia Huang<fnref n="4" /> ID •

Vamsee Krishna Jagarlamudi⁹ ID • Andrea Larosa¹⁰,¹¹ ID • Maria S. Madjarska¹²,¹³,¹⁴ ID •

Olga Panasenco¹⁵ ID • Etienne Pariat¹⁶,¹⁷ ID • Nour E. Raouafi⁹ ID •

Alexis P. Rouillard<fnref n="2" />,¹⁸ ID • David Ruffolo¹⁹ ID • Nikos Sioulas²⁰,<fnref n="4" /> ID • Shirsh Lata Soni²¹ ID •

Luca Sorriso-Valvo¹¹,²² ID • Gabriel Ho Hin Suen²³,⁷ ID • Marco Velli²⁰ ID •

Jaye Verniero²⁴ ID

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L. Matteini
l.matteini@imperial.ac.uk

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<footnote n="1">¹ Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA</footnote>

<footnote n="2">² Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, CNES, CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, 31400, France</footnote>

<footnote n="3">³ Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK</footnote>

<footnote n="4">⁴ Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA</footnote>

<footnote n="5">⁵ Astronomy and Space Physics Department, National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Kyiv, 01601, Ukraine</footnote>

<footnote n="6">⁶ Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA</footnote>
7 LPC2E, OSUC, Univ Orléans, CNRS, CNES, F-45071 Orleans, France

8 International Space Science Institute, Bern, 3012, Switzerland

9 John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, 20723, USA

10 School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

11 Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (ISTP), CNR, 70126, Bari, Italy

12 Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, 37077, Germany

13 Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Daejeon, 34055, South Korea

14 Space Research and Technology Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, 1113, Bulgaria

15 Advanced Heliophysics, Pasadena, CA, 91106, USA

16 French-Spanish Laboratory for Astrophysics in Canarias, CNRS, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, 38205, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain

17 Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, Sorbonne Université, École polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Université Paris Saclay, Observatoire de Paris-PSL, CNRS, 75005, Paris, France

18 Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), Potsdam, 11482, Germany

19 Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok, 10400, Thailand

20 Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA

21 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242-1479, USA

22 Department of Electromagnetics and Plasma Physics, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE-11428, Stockholm, Sweden

23 Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Department of Space and Climate Physics, University College London, London, UK

24 Heliophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USA