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Cavitons Associated with Ion-Acoustic-Like Waves in Foreshock Transients
Runyi Liu, Terry Liu, Xin An +2
Foreshock transients upstream of the Earth's bow shock, such as foreshock bubbles and hot flow anomalies, are often characterized by reduced-density cores and strong plasma fluctua…
Energy transfer from MHD-scale slow-mode waves to kinetic-scale ion acoustic waves
Xiaofei Shi, Xin An, Vassilis Angelopoulos
Large-amplitude slow-mode waves are commonly observed near Earth's magnetopause. Recent observations show that these waves can occur simultaneously with kinetic-scale ion acoustic…
Scaling of Particle Heating in Shocks and Magnetic Reconnection
Mitsuo Oka, Tai D. Phan, Marit Ãieroset +4
Particles are heated efficiently through energy conversion processes such as shocks and magnetic reconnection in collisionless plasma environments. While empirical scaling laws for…
Beam-driven Electron Cyclotron Harmonic and Electron Acoustic Waves as Seen in Particle-In-Cell Simulations
Xu Zhang, Xin An, Vassilis Angelopoulos +3
Recent study has demonstrated that electron cyclotron harmonic (ECH) waves can be excited by a low energy electron beam. Such waves propagate at moderately oblique wave normal angl…