Authors: Elliot Johnson

The solar wind is ejected out of the Sun at high temperatures and is moving at a high speed, it is not in local thermal equilibrium. Being primarily a low density and high-temperature medium, Coulomb collisions involving the constituent particles within the solar wind dictate that any effect on the dynamics would occur over a relatively long time frame; as the plasma travels further from the Sun the more it thermalizes. In our current position the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) at r = 0.1 − 0.2 Au and the Wind satellite at r = 1 Au, since the two separate satellites are in these positions we can analyze the data from PSP and model our predictions. In order to verify the model we analyze and compare it with the Wind satellite results to investigate thermalization methods and heating mechanisms in the solar wind.