Parker solar probe: Four years of discoveries at solar cycle minimum

NE Raouafi, L Matteini, J Squire, ST Badman… - Space Science …, 2023‏ - Springer
Abstract Launched on 12 Aug. 2018, NASA's Parker Solar Probe had completed 13 of its
scheduled 24 orbits around the Sun by Nov. 2022. The mission's primary science goal is to …

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 …

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 …

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 turbulent cascade in five dimensions

JI Cardesa, A Vela-Martín, J Jiménez - Science, 2017‏ - science.org
To the naked eye, turbulent flows exhibit whirls of many different sizes. To each size, or
scale, corresponds a fraction of the total energy resulting from a cascade in five dimensions …

[HTML][HTML] Energy transfer, pressure tensor, and heating of kinetic plasma

Y Yang, WH Matthaeus, TN Parashar… - Physics of …, 2017‏ - pubs.aip.org
Kinetic plasma turbulence cascade spans multiple scales ranging from macroscopic fluid
flow to sub-electron scales. Mechanisms that dissipate large scale energy, terminate the …

Turbulence in space plasmas: Who needs it?

WH Matthaeus - Physics of Plasmas, 2021‏ - pubs.aip.org
The complex nonlinear dynamical phenomenon described as turbulence, is known to have
a great impact on fluids, magnetohydrodynamic systems, and on plasmas. This paper …

Kinetic turbulence in relativistic plasma: from thermal bath to nonthermal continuum

V Zhdankin, GR Werner, DA Uzdensky… - Physical Review Letters, 2017‏ - APS
We present results from particle-in-cell simulations of driven turbulence in magnetized,
collisionless, and relativistic pair plasmas. We find that the fluctuations are consistent with …

Collisionless reconnection in magnetohydrodynamic and kinetic turbulence

NF Loureiro, S Boldyrev - The Astrophysical Journal, 2017‏ - iopscience.iop.org
It has recently been proposed that the inertial interval in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)
turbulence is terminated at small scales not by a Kolmogorov-like dissipation region, but …

Magnetic reconnection, turbulence, and particle acceleration: Observations in the Earth's magnetotail

RE Ergun, KA Goodrich, FD Wilder… - Geophysical …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
We report observations of turbulent dissipation and particle acceleration from large‐
amplitude electric fields (E) associated with strong magnetic field (B) fluctuations in the …