4 papers
Minor Ions as a Diagnostic of Solar Wind Heating: Inverted Mass-to-Charge Scaling in Imbalanced Turbulence
Michael F. Zhang, Evan L. Yerger, Matthew W. Kunz +1
Alfvénic turbulence is vital to powering the solar wind and corona, yet eludes a comprehensive understanding of the kinetic processes by which it dissipates. Minor ions are sensiti…
Galactic echoes
Rimpei Chiba, Jupiter Ding, Chris Hamilton +2
Gaia has revealed a variety of substructures in the phase space of stars in the Solar neighborhood, including the vertical `Snail' in space. Such substructures are often…
Thermodynamics and collisionality in firehose-susceptible high- plasmas
A. F. A. Bott, M. W. Kunz, E. Quataert +2
We study the evolution of collisionless plasmas that, due to their macroscopic evolution, are susceptible to the firehose instability, using both analytic theory and hybrid-kinetic…
Self-organization in collisionless, high- turbulence
S. Majeski, M. W. Kunz, J. Squire
The MHD equations, as a collisional fluid model that remains in local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE), have long been used to describe turbulence in myriad space and astrophysical…