2 papers
physics.space-ph2023
MMS Observations of the Velocity-Space Signature of Shock-Drift Acceleration
Peter Montag, Gregory Howes, Daniel McGinnis +3
Collisionless shocks play a key role in the heliosphere at planetary bow shocks by governing the conversion of the upstream bulk kinetic energy of the solar wind flow to other form…
physics.plasm-ph2020
A drift-kinetic method for obtaining gradients in plasma properties from single-point distribution function data
Blake A. Wetherton, Jan Egedal, Peter K. Montag +2
In this paper, we derive a new drift-kinetic method for estimating gradients in the plasma properties through a velocity space distribution at a single point. The gradients are int…