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The Impact of Turbulent Solar Wind Fluctuations on Solar Orbiter Plasma Proton Measurements
Georgios Nicolaou, Daniel Verscharen, Robert T. Wicks +1
Solar Orbiter will observe the Sun and the inner heliosphere to study the connections between solar activity, coronal structure, and the origin of the solar wind. The plasma instru…
A Case for Electron-Astrophysics
Daniel Verscharen, Robert T. Wicks, Olga Alexandrova +27
A grand-challenge problem at the forefront of physics is to understand how energy is transported and transformed in plasmas. This fundamental research priority encapsulates the con…
Self-induced Scattering of Strahl Electrons in the Solar Wind
Daniel Verscharen, Benjamin D. G. Chandran, Seong-Yeop Jeong +3
We investigate the scattering of strahl electrons by microinstabilities as a mechanism for creating the electron halo in the solar wind. We develop a mathematical framework for the…
Parallel-propagating Fluctuations at Proton-kinetic Scales in the Solar Wind are Dominated by Kinetic Instabilities
Lloyd D. Woodham, Robert T. Wicks, Daniel Verscharen +3
We use magnetic helicity to characterise solar wind fluctuations at proton-kinetic scales from Wind observations. For the first time, we separate the contributions to helicity from…
Stochastic Ion Acceleration by the Ion-cyclotron Instability in a Growing Magnetic Field
Francisco Ley, Mario Riquelme, Lorenzo Sironi +2
Using 1D and 2D particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of a plasma with a growing magnetic field , we show that ions can be stochastically accelerated by the ion-cyclotron (IC…
[Plasma 2020 Decadal] The essential role of multi-point measurements in turbulence investigations: the solar wind beyond single scale and beyond the Taylor Hypothesis
W. H. Matthaeus, R. Bandyopadhyay, M. R. Brown +46
This paper briefly reviews a number of fundamental measurements that need to be made in order to characterize turbulence in space plasmas such as the solar wind. It has long been k…