4 papers
Shear interaction and acceleration of a corotating stream detected by Parker Solar Probe
Andrea Verdini, Simone Landi, Emanuele Papini +4
Recent analysis of Parker Solar Probe (PSP) and Solar Orbiter data indicates that fluctuations energy is transferred to the bulk flow in fast streams of the solar wind at heliocent…
UK White Paper on Magnetic Reconnection
Alexander J. B. Russell, James A. McLaughlin, Philippa Browning +25
Magnetic reconnection powers explosive releases of magnetic energy, heating and particle acceleration throughout the plasma universe. Knowledge of this universal process is vital t…
The near-Sun Heliospheric Current Sheet, fluid and kinetic properties
Naïs Fargette, Jonathan P. Eastwood, Tai D. Phan +2
The heliospheric current sheet (HCS) is an important large-scale structure of the heliosphere, and, for the first time, the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) mission enables us to study its…
Evolution of ion distribution functions in ionospheric plasmas perturbed by Alfvén waves
Dario Recchiuti, Luca Franci, Lorenzo Matteini +3
This study investigates ion kinetic effects during the parametric decay instability (PDI) of parallel-propagating Alfvén waves under plasma conditions characteristic of the Earth'…