Recent progress in astrophysical plasma turbulence from solar wind observations

CHK Chen - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2016 - cambridge.org
This paper summarises some of the recent progress that has been made in understanding
astrophysical plasma turbulence in the solar wind, from in situ spacecraft observations. At …

Origins of the ambient solar wind: implications for space weather

SR Cranmer, SE Gibson, P Riley - Space Science Reviews, 2017 - Springer
The Sun's outer atmosphere is heated to temperatures of millions of degrees, and solar
plasma flows out into interplanetary space at supersonic speeds. This paper reviews our …

Nine outstanding questions of solar wind physics

NM Viall, JE Borovsky - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In situ measurements of the solar wind have been available for almost 60 years, and in that
time plasma physics simulation capabilities have commenced and ground‐based solar …

MHD turbulence: a biased review

AA Schekochihin - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2022 - cambridge.org
This review of scaling theories of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence aims to put the
developments of the last few years in the context of the canonical time line (from Kolmogorov …

Magnetohydrodynamic and kinetic scale turbulence in the near-Earth space plasmas: a (short) biased review

F Sahraoui, L Hadid, S Huang - Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics, 2020 - Springer
The near-Earth space is a unique laboratory to explore turbulence and energy dissipation
processes in magnetized plasmas thanks to the availability of high-quality data from various …

Diagnosing collisionless energy transfer using field–particle correlations: Vlasov–Poisson plasmas

GG Howes, KG Klein, TC Li - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2017 - cambridge.org
Turbulence plays a key role in the conversion of the energy of large-scale fields and flows to
plasma heat, impacting the macroscopic evolution of the heliosphere and other …

Dissipation measures in weakly collisional plasmas

O Pezzi, H Liang, JL Juno, PA Cassak… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The physical foundations of the dissipation of energy and the associated heating in weakly
collisional plasmas are poorly understood. Here, we compare and contrast several …

Fully kinetic versus reduced-kinetic modeling of collisionless plasma turbulence

D Grošelj, SS Cerri, AB Navarro… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the results of a direct comparison between different kinetic models of collisionless
plasma turbulence in two spatial dimensions. The models considered include a first …

The need for accurate measurements of thermal velocity distribution functions in the solar wind

LB Wilson III, KA Goodrich, DL Turner… - Frontiers in Astronomy …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The current state of the art thermal particle measurements in the solar wind are insufficient to
address many long standing, fundamental physical processes. The solar wind is a weakly …

Coherent structures at ion scales in fast solar wind: Cluster observations

D Perrone, O Alexandrova, OW Roberts… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the nature of magnetic turbulent fluctuations, around ion characteristic
scales, in a fast solar wind stream, by using Cluster data. Contrarily to slow solar wind …