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 …

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 …

Electron-scale measurements of magnetic reconnection in space

JL Burch, RB Torbert, TD Phan, LJ Chen, TE Moore… - Science, 2016 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Magnetic reconnection is a physical process occurring in plasmas in which
magnetic energy is explosively converted into heat and kinetic energy. The effects of …

The ERG science center

Y Miyoshi, T Hori, M Shoji, M Teramoto… - Earth, Planets and …, 2018 - Springer
The Exploration of energization and Radiation in Geospace (ERG) Science Center serves
as a hub of the ERG project, providing data files in a common format and develo** the …

Magnetic reconnection at the dayside magnetopause: Advances with MMS

JL Burch, TD Phan - Geophysical Research Letters, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetic reconnection is known to be an important process for coupling solar wind mass
and momentum into the Earth's magnetosphere. Reconnection is initiated in an electron …

Transmission of foreshock waves through Earth's bow shock

L Turc, OW Roberts, D Verscharen, AP Dimmock… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
The Earth's magnetosphere and its bow shock, which is formed by the interaction of the
supersonic solar wind with the terrestrial magnetic field, constitute a rich natural laboratory …

Quantifying energy conversion in higher-order phase space density moments in plasmas

PA Cassak, MH Barbhuiya, H Liang, MR Argall - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Weakly collisional and collisionless plasmas are typically far from local thermodynamic
equilibrium (LTE), and understanding energy conversion in such systems is a forefront …

Magnetospheric multiscale science mission profile and operations

SA Fuselier, WS Lewis, C Schiff, R Ergun… - Space Science …, 2016 - Springer
Abstract The Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission and operations are designed to
provide the maximum reconnection science. The mission phases are chosen to investigate …

[HTML][HTML] Turbulence-driven magnetic reconnection and the magnetic correlation length: Observations from Magnetospheric Multiscale in Earth's magnetosheath

JE Stawarz, JP Eastwood, TD Phan, IL Gingell… - Physics of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Turbulent plasmas generate a multitude of thin current structures that can be sites for
magnetic reconnection. The Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission has recently …

Evidence for electron Landau dam** in space plasma turbulence

CHK Chen, KG Klein, GG Howes - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
How turbulent energy is dissipated in weakly collisional space and astrophysical plasmas is
a major open question. Here, we present the application of a field-particle correlation …