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most citedThe Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III

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physics.space-ph2017★ 17 cited

Hybrid Simulations of Positively and Negatively Charged Pickup Ions and Cyclotron Wave Generation at Europa

R. T. Desai, M. M. Cowee, H. Wei +4

In the vicinity of Europa, Galileo observed bursty Alfvén-cyclotron wave power at the gyrofrequencies of a number of species including K, O, Na, and Cl, indicatin…

physics.space-ph2017★ 78 cited

Classification of Solar Wind with Machine Learning

Enrico Camporeale, Algo Carè, Joseph E. Borovsky

We present a four-category classification algorithm for the solar wind, based on Gaussian Process. The four categories are the ones previously adopted in Xu & Borovsky [2015]: ejec…

physics.space-ph2017★ 21 cited

Parametric Decay Instability and Dissipation of Low-frequency Alfvén Waves in Low-beta Turbulent Plasmas

Xiangrong Fu, Hui Li, Fan Guo +2

Evolution of the parametric decay instability (PDI) of a circularly polarized Aflvén wave in a turbulent low-beta plasma background is investigated using 3D hybrid simulations. It…

physics.space-ph2017★ 25 cited

Constraints to do realistic modeling of the electric field ahead of the tip of a lightning leader

Alexander Broberg Skeltved, Nikolai Østgaard, Andrew Mezentsev +2

Several computer models exist to explain the observation of terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs). Some of these models estimate the electric field ahead of lightning leaders and it…

physics.space-ph2017★ 54 cited

The effect of a guide field on local energy conversion during asymmetric magnetic reconnection: MMS observations

Kevin Genestreti, Jim Burch, Paul Cassak +9

We compare case studies of Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS)-observed magnetopause electron diffusion regions (EDRs) to determine how the rate of work done by the electric field, $\v…

physics.space-ph2017★ 48 cited

Kinetic Theory and Fast Wind Observations of the Electron Strahl

Konstantinos Horaites, Stanislav Boldyrev, Lynn B. Wilson +2

We develop a model for the strahl population in the solar wind -- a narrow, low-density and high-energy electron beam centered on the magnetic field direction. Our model is based o…

physics.space-ph2017★ 144 cited

Nature of Kinetic Scale Turbulence in the Earth's Magnetosheath

C. H. K. Chen, S. Boldyrev

We present a combined observational and theoretical analysis to investigate the nature of plasma turbulence at kinetic scales in the Earth's magnetosheath. In the first decade of t…

physics.space-ph2017★ 58 cited

On the origin of the crescent-shaped distributions observed by MMS at the magnetopause

G. Lapenta, J. Berchem, M. Zhou +12

MMS observations recently confirmed that crescent-shaped electron velocity distributions in the plane perpendicular to the magnetic field occur in the electron diffusion region nea…