6 papers
Spacecraft wakes in the solar wind
Anders I. Eriksson, Yuri Khotyaintsev, Per-Arne Lindqvist
The solar wind flow creates a wake behind any spacecraft immersed in it. We study the properties of this wake using the spherical electrostatic probes of the Electric Fields and Wa…
Occurrence of Non-Stationarity at Earth's Quasi-Perpendicular Bow Shock
Ajay Lotekar, Yuri V. Khotyaintsev, Daniel B. Graham +3
Collisionless shocks can exhibit non-stationary behavior even under steady upstream conditions, forming a complex transition region. Ion phase-space holes, linked to shock self-ref…
Electron Acceleration via Trapping inside Ion Mirror-mode Structures within A Large-scale Magnetic Flux Rope
Z. H. Zhong, H. Zhang, M. Zhou +4
Fermi acceleration is believed as a crucial process for the acceleration of energetic electrons within flux ropes (FRs) during magnetic reconnection. However, in finite-length FRs…
Electron-scale energy transfer due to lower hybrid waves during asymmetric reconnection
Sabrina F. Tigik, Daniel B. Graham, Yuri V. Khotyaintsev
We use Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission data to investigate electron-scale energy transfer due to lower hybrid drift waves during magnetopause reconnection. We analyze waves…
Electron Heating by Parallel Electric Fields in Magnetotail Reconnection
Louis Richard, Yuri V. Khotyaintsev, Cecilia Norgren +5
We investigate electron heating by magnetic-field-aligned electric fields () during anti-parallel magnetic reconnection in the Earth's magnetotail. Using a statistical…
Debye-scale electrostatic waves across quasi-perpendicular shocks
Ahmad Lalti, Yuri V. Khotyaintsev, Daniel B. Graham +1
The evolution of the properties of short-scale electrostatic waves across collisionless shocks remains an open question. We use a method based on the interferometry of the electric…