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 …

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 …

Dissipation and heating in solar wind turbulence: from the macro to the micro and back again

KH Kiyani, KT Osman… - … Transactions of the …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The past decade has seen a flurry of research activity focused on discerning the physics of
kinetic scale turbulence in high-speed astrophysical plasma flows. By 'kinetic'we mean …

Gyrokinetic simulations of solar wind turbulence from ion to electron scales

GG Howes, JM TenBarge, W Dorland, E Quataert… - Physical review …, 2011 - APS
A three-dimensional, nonlinear gyrokinetic simulation of plasma turbulence resolving scales
from the ion to electron gyroradius with a realistic mass ratio is presented, where all …

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 …

Spectrum of kinetic-Alfvén turbulence

S Boldyrev, JC Perez - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT A numerical study of strong kinetic-Alfvén turbulence at scales smaller than the
ion gyroscale is presented, and a phenomenological model is proposed that argues that …

Solar wind turbulent spectrum at plasma kinetic scales

O Alexandrova, C Lacombe, A Mangeney… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The description of the turbulent spectrum of magnetic fluctuations in the solar wind in the
kinetic range of scales is not yet completely established. Here, we perform a statistical study …

Magnetic reconnection as a driver for a sub-ion-scale cascade in plasma turbulence

L Franci, SS Cerri, F Califano, S Landi… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
A new path for the generation of a sub-ion-scale cascade in collisionless space and
astrophysical plasma turbulence, triggered by magnetic reconnection, is uncovered by …

Scaling of the electron dissipation range of solar wind turbulence

F Sahraoui, SY Huang, G Belmont… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Electron scale solar wind (SW) turbulence has attracted great interest in recent years.
Considerable evidence exists that the turbulence is not fully dissipated near the proton …