Abstract Space plasmas present intriguing and challenging puzzles to the space community.
Energy accessible to excite instabilities exists in a variety of forms, particularly for the …

We present a comprehensive review of recent theoretical and numerical studies of the
formation and dynamics of electron and ion holes in a collisionless plasma. The electron …

Plasmas are believed to be possibly the most abundant form of ordinary matter in the
Universe, supporting a variety of the wave phenomena, while a dusty plasma is of interest as …

The POLAR plasma wave instrument often detects coherent electric field structures in the
high altitude polar magnetosphere. The structures appear to be positively charged potentials …

The present 15th volume of the ISSI Space Science Series is devoted to Auroral Plasma
Physics. The aurora is arguably the most intriguing phenomenon in space plasma physics …

The presence of the geometrical curvature makes the planar Korteweg–de Vries (KdV)
equation inadequate to describe the propagation of nonlinear waves. In many scientific …

Previous investigations of collisionless magnetic reconnection in a standard Harris neutral
sheet configuration have demonstrated the importance of the Hall term for producing near …

We present observations of intense, bipolar, electrostatic structures in the transition region of
the terrestrial bow shock from the Wind spacecraft. The electric field signatures are on the …

We report on FAST observations of large amplitude (up to 500 mV m− 1) envelope solitary
waves at the edges of the AKR source region. These edges are characterized by the …

Ion-acoustic waves are investigated in an unmagnetized collisionless plasma comprising
dynamical ions and inertialess cold and hot (C–H) electrons expressed by Maxwellian …