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Extreme heating of minor ions in imbalanced solar-wind turbulence
Michael F. Zhang, Matthew W. Kunz, Jonathan Squire +1
Minor ions in the solar corona are heated to extreme temperatures, far in excess of those of the electrons and protons that comprise the bulk of the plasma. These highly non-therma…
Critical magnetic Reynolds number of the turbulent dynamo in collisionless plasmas
Radhika Achikanath Chirakkara, Amit Seta, Christoph Federrath +1
The intracluster medium of galaxy clusters is an extremely hot and diffuse, nearly collisionless plasma, which hosts dynamically important magnetic fields of streng…
Local models of two-temperature accretion disc coronae. II. Ion thermal conduction and the absence of disc evaporation
Christopher J. Bambic, Eliot Quataert, Matthew W. Kunz +1
We use local stratified shearing-box simulations with magnetic field-aligned thermal conduction to study an idealized model of the coupling between a cold, radiatively efficient ac…
On hydromagnetic wave interactions in collisionless, high- plasmas
Stephen Majeski, Matthew W. Kunz
We describe the interaction of parallel-propagating Alfvén waves with ion-acoustic waves and other Alfvén waves, in magnetized, high- collisionless plasmas. This is accomplished…
Electron-ion heating partition in imbalanced solar-wind turbulence
Jonathan Squire, Romain Meyrand, Matthew W. Kunz
A likely candidate mechanism to heat the solar corona and solar wind is low-frequency "Alfvénic" turbulence sourced by magnetic fluctuations near the solar surface. Depending on it…
Magnetogenesis in a collisionless plasma: from Weibel instability to turbulent dynamo
Muni Zhou, Vladimir Zhdankin, Matthew W. Kunz +2
We report on a first-principles numerical and theoretical study of plasma dynamo in a fully kinetic framework. By applying an external mechanical force to an initially unmagnetized…