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Quasi-parallel anti-sunward propagating whistler waves associated to the electron-deficit in the near-Sun solar wind: Particle-in-Cell simulation
Alfredo Micera, Daniel Verscharen, Jesse T. Coburn +1
In-situ observations of the solar wind have shown that the electron velocity distribution function (VDF) consists of a quasi-Maxwellian core, comprising most of the electron popula…
Electrostatic Bursts Generated by the Ion-Ion Acoustic Instability with Solar Wind Plasma Parameters
Mahmoud Saad Afify, Jürgen Dreher, Kevin Schoeffler +2
This study is motivated by recent observations from the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) mission, which have been identified as the ion-acoustic waves from 15 to 25 solar radii. These obse…
Fully Kinetic Simulations of Proton-Beam-Driven Instabilities from Parker Solar Probe Observations
Luca Pezzini, Andrei N. Zhukov, Fabio Bacchini +5
The expanding solar wind plasma ubiquitously exhibits anisotropic non-thermal particle velocity distributions. Typically, proton Velocity Distribution Functions (VDFs) show the pre…
Electron-driven instabilities in the solar wind
Daniel Verscharen, Benjamin D. G. Chandran, Elisabetta Boella +9
The electrons are an essential particle species in the solar wind. They often exhibit non-equilibrium features in their velocity distribution function. These include temperature an…
Anisotropic electron heating in turbulence-driven magnetic reconnection in the near-Sun solar wind
Luca Franci, Emanuele Papini, Alfredo Micera +5
We perform a high-resolution two-dimensional fully-kinetic numerical simulation of a turbulent plasma system with observation-driven conditions, in order to investigate the interpl…
Mixing the solar wind proton and electron scales. Theory and 2D-PIC simulations of firehose instability
R. A. López, A. Micera, M. Lazar +5
Firehose-like instabilities (FIs) are cited in multiple astrophysical applications. Of particular interest are the kinetic manifestations in weakly-collisional or even collisionles…