HelioSwarm: a multipoint, multiscale mission to characterize turbulence

KG Klein, H Spence, O Alexandrova, M Argall… - Space Science …, 2023 - Springer
HelioSwarm (HS) is a NASA Medium-Class Explorer mission of the Heliophysics Division
designed to explore the dynamic three-dimensional mechanisms controlling the physics of …

The interplay between collisionless magnetic reconnection and turbulence

JE Stawarz, PA Muñoz, N Bessho… - Space Science …, 2024 - Springer
Alongside magnetic reconnection, turbulence is another fundamental nonlinear plasma
phenomenon that plays a key role in energy transport and conversion in space and …

Kinetic Turbulence in Collisionless High- Plasmas

L Arzamasskiy, MW Kunz, J Squire, E Quataert… - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
We present results from three-dimensional hybrid-kinetic simulations of Alfvénic turbulence
in a high-β, collisionless plasma. The key feature of such turbulence is the interplay between …

In Situ Signature of Cyclotron Resonant Heating in the Solar Wind

TA Bowen, BDG Chandran, J Squire, SD Bale… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
The dissipation of magnetized turbulence is an important paradigm for describing heating
and energy transfer in astrophysical environments such as the solar corona and wind; …

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 …

Turbulent energy transfer and proton–electron heating in collisionless plasmas

S Roy, R Bandyopadhyay, Y Yang… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Despite decades of study of high-temperature weakly collisional plasmas, a complete
understanding of how energy is transferred between particles and fields in turbulent …

Fully kinetic shearing-box simulations of magnetorotational turbulence in 2D and 3D. I. Pair plasmas

F Bacchini, L Arzamasskiy, V Zhdankin… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is a fundamental mechanism determining the
macroscopic dynamics of astrophysical accretion disks. In collisionless accretion flows …

Electron heating in kinetic-Alfvén-wave turbulence

M Zhou, Z Liu, NF Loureiro - Proceedings of the National …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
We report analytical and numerical investigations of subion-scale turbulence in low-beta
plasmas using a rigorous reduced kinetic model. We show that efficient electron heating …

Mediation of collisionless turbulent dissipation through cyclotron resonance

TA Bowen, SD Bale, BDG Chandran, A Chasapis… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The dissipation of turbulence in astrophysical systems is fundamental to energy transfer and
heating in environments ranging from the solar wind and corona to accretion disks and the …

Balanced Turbulence and the Helicity Barrier in Black Hole Accretion

GN Wong, L Arzamasskiy - The Astrophysical Journal, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Horizon-scale observations from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) have enabled
precision study of supermassive black hole accretion. Contemporary accretion modeling …