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physics.space-ph2026

Transport of electrons in tangled magnetic fields

Daniel Verscharen, Natasha Jeffrey, Anton Artemyev +6

Cosmic magnetic fields are typically inhomogeneous and often highly tangled due to large-scale plasma flows, turbulence, and instabilities. If the variations in the magnetic field…

physics.space-ph2026★ 1 cited

Turbulent dynamo in the terrestrial magnetosheath

Zoltán Vörös, Owen Wyn Roberts, Yasuhito Narita +10

Dynamo action refers to energy exchange processes through which magnetic fields are generated at the expense of kinetic energy of the plasma flows. Dynamos can generate magnetic fi…

physics.space-ph2024★ 3 cited

Extent of the Magnetotail of Venus From the Solar Orbiter, Parker Solar Probe and BepiColombo Flybys

Niklas J. T. Edberg, David J. Andrews, J. Jordi Boldú +20

We analyze data from multiple flybys by the Solar Orbiter, BepiColombo, and Parker Solar Probe (PSP) missions to study the interaction between Venus' plasma environment and the sol…

physics.space-ph2024★ 3 cited

Temperature anisotropy instabilities driven by intermittent velocity shears in the solar wind

Simon Opie, Daniel Verscharen, Christopher H. K. Chen +5

Where and under what conditions the transfer of energy between electromagnetic fields and particles takes place in the solar wind remains an open question. We investigate the condi…

physics.space-ph2024★ 2 cited

Impact of solar wind turbulence on a planetary bow shock

E. Behar, F. Pucci, C. Simon Wedlund +4

Over the past decades, near-Earth spacecraft observations have provided insights into the physics of the bow shock, suggesting that solar wind intrinsic turbulence influences the b…

physics.space-ph2024★ 2 cited

Evaluation of scale-dependent kurtosis with HelioSwarm

Francesco Pecora, Francesco Pucci, Francesco Malara +4

Plasma turbulence involves complex, nonlinear interactions of electromagnetic fields and charged particles across multiple scales. Studying these phenomena in space plasmas, like t…

physics.space-ph2024

Higher-Order Analysis of Three-Dimensional Anisotropy in Imbalanced Alfvénic Turbulence

Nikos Sioulas, Themistocles Zikopoulos, Chen Shi +10

We analyze in-situ observations of imbalanced solar wind turbulence to evaluate MHD turbulence models grounded in "Critical Balance" (CB) and "Scale-Dependent Dynamic Alignment" (S…

physics.space-ph2023★ 36 cited

Three-dimensional modelling of the shock-turbulence interaction

Domenico Trotta, Oreste Pezzi, David Burgess +12

The complex interaction between shocks and plasma turbulence is extremely important to address crucial features of energy conversion in a broad range of astrophysical systems. We s…

physics.space-ph2023★ 23 cited

Helios 2 observations of solar wind turbulence decay in the inner heliosphere

Luca Sorriso-Valvo, Raffaele Marino, Foldes Raffaello +5

The linear scaling of the mixed third-order moment of the magnetohydrodynamic fluctuations is used to estimate the energy transfer rate of the turbulent cascade in the expanding so…

physics.space-ph2022★ 12 cited

Turbulence, intermittency and cross-scale energy transfer in an interplanetary coronal mass ejection

Roque Márquez Rodríguez, Luca Sorriso-Valvo, Emiliya Yordanova

Solar wind measurements carried out by NASA's Wind spacecraft before, during and after the passing of an interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) detected on 12-14 September 201…

physics.space-ph2021

Statistical study of electron density turbulence and ion-cyclotron waves in the inner heliosphere: Solar Orbiter observations

F. Carbone, L. Sorriso-Valvo, Yu. V. Khotyaintsev +27

The recently released spacecraft potential measured by the RPW instrument on-board Solar Orbiter has been used to estimate the solar wind electron density in the inner heliosphere.…

physics.space-ph2020★ 8 cited

Local and global properties of energy transfer in models of plasma turbulence

Christian L. Vásconez, Denise Perrone, Raffaele Marino +5

The nature of the turbulent energy transfer rate is studied using direct numerical simulations of weakly collisional space plasmas. This is done comparing results obtained from hyb…

physics.space-ph2020★ 17 cited

Kelvin-Helmholtz instability at proton scales with an exact kinetic equilibrium

A. Settino, F. Malara, O. Pezzi +3

The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability is a ubiquitous physical process in ordinary fluids and plasmas, frequently observed also in space environments. In this paper, kinetic effects at…

physics.space-ph2019★ 14 cited

Sign singularity of the local energy transfer in space plasma turbulence

Luca Sorriso-Valvo, Gaetano De Vita, Federico Fraternale +18

In weakly collisional space plasmas, the turbulent cascade provides most of the energy that is dissipated at small scales by various kinetic processes. Understanding the characteri…

physics.space-ph2019★ 64 cited

In-situ observation of Hall Magnetohydrodynamic Cascade in Space Plasma

Riddhi Bandyopadhyay, Luca Sorriso-Valvo, Alexandros Chasapis +13

We present estimates of the turbulent energy cascade rate, derived from a Hall-MHD third-order law. We compute the contribution from the Hall term and the MHD term to the energy fl…

physics.space-ph2019★ 24 cited

On the deviation from Maxwellian of the ion velocity distribution functions in the turbulent magnetosheath

Silvia Perri, D. Perrone, E. Yordanova +20

The degree of deviation from the thermodynamic equilibrium in the ion velocity distribution functions (VDFs), measured by the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission in the Earth's…