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 …

A review of the 0.1 reconnection rate problem

PA Cassak, YH Liu, MA Shay - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2017 - cambridge.org
A long-standing problem in magnetic reconnection is to explain why it tends to proceed at or
below a normalized rate of 0.1. This article gives a review of observational and numerical …

[HTML][HTML] 3D turbulent reconnection: Theory, tests, and astrophysical implications

A Lazarian, GL Eyink, A Jafari, G Kowal, H Li, S Xu… - Physics of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Magnetic reconnection, topological changes in magnetic fields, is a fundamental process in
magnetized plasmas. It is associated with energy release in regions of magnetic field …

Reconnection-driven energy cascade in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

C Dong, L Wang, YM Huang, L Comisso… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence regulates the transfer of energy from large to small scales
in many astrophysical systems, including the solar atmosphere. We perform three …

Particle acceleration in relativistic plasma turbulence

L Comisso, L Sironi - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
Due to its ubiquitous presence, turbulence is often invoked to explain the origin of
nonthermal particles in astrophysical sources of high-energy emission. With particle-in-cell …

Cosmic ray transport in large-amplitude turbulence with small-scale field reversals

P Kempski, DB Fielding, E Quataert… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The nature of cosmic ray (CR) transport in the Milky Way remains elusive. The predictions of
current microphysical CR transport models in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence are …

The interplay of magnetically dominated turbulence and magnetic reconnection in producing nonthermal particles

L Comisso, L Sironi - The Astrophysical Journal, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetized turbulence and magnetic reconnection are often invoked to explain the
nonthermal emission observed from a wide variety of astrophysical sources. By means of …

The role of electron heating physics in images and variability of the Galactic Centre black hole Sagittarius A

A Chael, M Rowan, R Narayan… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The accretion flow around the Galactic Centre black hole Sagittarius A*(Sgr A*) is expected
to have an electron temperature that is distinct from the ion temperature, due to weak …

Reconciling cosmic ray transport theory with phenomenological models motivated by Milky-Way data

P Kempski, E Quataert - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Phenomenological models of cosmic ray (CR) transport in the Milky Way can reproduce a
wide range of observations assuming that CRs scatter off of magnetic-field fluctuations with …

[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 …