2 papers
physics.plasm-ph2023
Generation of sub-ion scale magnetic holes from electron shear flow instabilities in plasma turbulence
Giuseppe Arrò, Francesco Pucci, Francesco Califano +2
Magnetic holes (MHs) are coherent structures associated with strong magnetic field depressions in magnetized plasmas. They are observed in many astrophysical environments at a wide…
physics.plasm-ph2021
Kinetic heating by Alfvén waves in magnetic shears
Fabio Bacchini, Francesco Pucci, Francesco Malara +1
With first-principles kinetic simulations, we show that a large-scale Alfvén wave (AW) propagating in an inhomogeneous background decays into kinetic Alfvén waves (KAWs), triggerin…