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Alpha Core-Beam Origin in Low- Solar Wind Plasma: Insights from Fully Kinetic Simulation
Luca Pezzini, Fabio Bacchini, Andrei N. Zhukov +2
In-situ observations of the fast solar wind in the inner-heliosphere show that minor ions and ion sub-populations often exhibit distinct drift velocities. Both alpha particles and…
Comparing the counter-beaming and temperature anisotropy driven aperiodic electron firehose instabilities in collisionless plasma environments
Pablo S. Moya, Rodrigo A Lopez, Marian Lazar +2
The electron firehose instabilities are among the most studied kinetic instabilities, especially in the context of space plasmas, whose dynamics is mainly controlled by collisionle…
On the role of solar wind expansion as a source of whistler waves: scattering of suprathermal electrons and heat flux regulation in the inner heliosphere
A. Micera, A. N. Zhukov, R. A. López +5
The role of solar wind expansion in generating whistler waves is investigated using the EB-iPic3D code, which models solar wind expansion self-consistently within a fully kinetic s…
On the interplay of solar wind proton and electron instabilities: Linear and quasi-linear approaches
S. M. Shaaban, M. Lazar, R. A. López +1
Important efforts are currently made for understanding the so-called kinetic instabilities, driven by the anisotropy of different species of plasma particles present in the solar w…
Particle-In-Cell simulation of whistler heat flux instabilities in the solar wind: heat flux regulation and electron halo formation
A. Micera, A. N. Zhukov, R. A. López +4
We present results of two-dimensional fully kinetic Particle-In-Cell simulation in order to shed light on the role of whistler waves in the scattering of strahl electrons and in th…
Electromagnetic Ion-Ion Instabilities in Space Plasmas: Effects of Suprathermal Populations
S. M. Shaaban, M. Lazar, R. A. López +1
In collision-poor plasmas from space, three distinct ion-ion instabilities can be driven by the proton beams streaming along the background magnetic field: left-hand resonant, non-…
Alternative high plasma beta regimes of electron heat-flux instabilities in the solar wind
R. A. López, M. Lazar, S. M. Shaaban +2
The heat transport in the solar wind is dominated by the suprathermal electron populations, i.e., a tenuous halo and a field-aligned beam/strahl, with high energies and antisunward…
A firehose-like aperiodic instability of the counter-beaming electron plasmas
R. A. López, M. Lazar, S. M. Shaaban +2
Depending on the physical conditions involved the beam plasma systems may reveal new unstable regimes triggered by the wave instabilities of different nature. We show through linea…
Whistler instability stimulated by the suprathermal electrons present in space plasmas
M. Lazar, R. A. Lopez, S. M. Shaaban +2
In the absence of efficient collisions, deviations from thermal equilibrium of plasma particle distributions are controlled by the self-generated instabilities. The whistler instab…
Particle-in-cell simulations of the whistler heat-flux instability in the solar wind conditions
R. A. López, S. M. Shaaban, M. Lazar +4
In collision-poor plasmas from space, e.g., solar wind or stellar outflows, the heat-flux carried by the strahl or beaming electrons is expected to be regulated by the self-generat…
Firehose instabilities triggered by the solar wind suprathermal electrons
S. M. Shaaban, M. Lazar, R. A. Lopez +2
In collision-poor plasmas from space, e.g., solar wind, terrestrial magnetospheres, kinetic instabilities are expected to play a major role in constraining the temperature anisotro…