2 papers
astro-ph.SR2025
Alpha Core-Beam Origin in Low- Solar Wind Plasma: Insights from Fully Kinetic Simulation
Luca Pezzini, Fabio Bacchini, Andrei N. Zhukov +2
In-situ observations of the fast solar wind in the inner-heliosphere show that minor ions and ion sub-populations often exhibit distinct drift velocities. Both alpha particles and…
astro-ph.SR2024
Fully Kinetic Simulations of Proton-Beam-Driven Instabilities from Parker Solar Probe Observations
Luca Pezzini, Andrei N. Zhukov, Fabio Bacchini +5
The expanding solar wind plasma ubiquitously exhibits anisotropic non-thermal particle velocity distributions. Typically, proton Velocity Distribution Functions (VDFs) show the pre…