Solar Wind Heating near the Sun: A Radial Evolution Approach

We thank the PSP mission team for generating the data and making them publicly available. The authors L.O., Y., S.A.B., L.K.J., P.M., V.S., K.G.K., and M.M. acknowledge support by NASA grant 80NSSC24K0724. L.O., S.A.B., V.S., and Y. acknowledge the support of NSF grant AGS-2300961. Y. and L.K.J. acknowledge support by NASA Heliophysics Guest Investigator Grant 80NSSC23K0447. G.G.H. acknowledges the support of NASA 80NSSC24K124. Y. acknowledges the support of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Iowa. K.G.K. acknowledges partial support from NASA contract NNN06AA01C and grant 80NSSC24K0171. B.L.A. acknowledges Parker Solar Probe funding at NASA/GSFC. P.M. acknowledges the partial support by the NSF SHINE grant 2401162 and the NASA HGIO grant 80NSSC23K0419. J.H. acknowledges the support of NASA grant 80NSSC23K0737. The authors acknowledge CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales), CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), the Observatoire de PARIS, NASA, and the FIELDS/RFS team for their support in the PSP/SQTN data production, and the CDPP (Centre de Donnees de la Physique des Plasmas) for their archiving and provision. The ICMECAT living catalog is available online for the research community at https://helioforecast.space/icmecat and the file-sharing platform figshare, with the latest version available at doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.6356420. For this study, the ICMECAT v2.3, updated on 2025 October 15, version 24 on figshare, has been used. This work is supported by an ERC grant (HELIO4CAST; 10.3030/101042188). Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are, however, those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.