The multi-scale nature of the solar wind

D Verscharen, KG Klein, BA Maruca - Living Reviews in Solar Physics, 2019 - Springer
The solar wind is a magnetized plasma and as such exhibits collective plasma behavior
associated with its characteristic spatial and temporal scales. The characteristic length …

Solar wind turbulence and the role of ion instabilities

O Alexandrova, CHK Chen, L Sorriso-Valvo… - Space Science …, 2013 - Springer
Solar wind is probably the best laboratory to study turbulence in astrophysical plasmas. In
addition to the presence of magnetic field, the differences with neutral fluid isotropic …

Identification of kinetic Alfvén wave turbulence in the solar wind

CS Salem, GG Howes, D Sundkvist… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The nature of small-scale turbulent fluctuations in the solar wind is investigated using a
comparison of Cluster magnetic and electric field measurements to predictions arising from …

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; …

Nature of kinetic scale turbulence in the Earth's magnetosheath

CHK Chen, S Boldyrev - The Astrophysical Journal, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a combined observational and theoretical analysis to investigate the nature of
plasma turbulence at kinetic scales in the Earth's magnetosheath. In the first decade of the …

Hybrid-kinetic simulations of ion heating in Alfvénic turbulence

L Arzamasskiy, MW Kunz, BDG Chandran… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We present three-dimensional, hybrid-kinetic numerical simulations of driven Alfvén-wave
turbulence of relevance to the collisionless near-Earth solar wind. Special attention is paid to …

Nature of subproton scale turbulence in the solar wind

CHK Chen, S Boldyrev, Q **a, JC Perez - Physical review letters, 2013 - APS
The nature of subproton scale fluctuations in the solar wind is an open question, partly
because two similar types of electromagnetic turbulence can occur: kinetic Alfvén turbulence …

Radial dependence of the frequency break between fluid and kinetic scales in the solar wind fluctuations

R Bruno, L Trenchi - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the radial dependence of the spectral break separating the inertial from the
dissipation range in power density spectra of interplanetary magnetic field fluctuations …

The role of proton cyclotron resonance as a dissipation mechanism in solar wind turbulence: a statistical study at ion-kinetic scales

LD Woodham, RT Wicks, D Verscharen… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We use magnetic field and ion moment data from the MFI and SWE instruments on board the
Wind spacecraft to study the nature of solar wind turbulence at ion-kinetic scales. We …

Compressive coherent structures at ion scales in the slow solar wind

D Perrone, O Alexandrova, A Mangeney… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a study of magnetic field fluctuations in a slow solar wind stream, close to ion
scales, where an increase of the level of magnetic compressibility is observed. Here, the …