Methods for characterising microphysical processes in plasmas

T Dudok de Wit, O Alexandrova, I Furno… - Space Science …, 2013 - Springer
Advanced spectral and statistical data analysis techniques have greatly contributed to
shaping our understanding of microphysical processes in plasmas. We review some of the …

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 …

Enhanced magnetic compressibility and isotropic scale invariance at sub-ion Larmor scales in solar wind turbulence

KH Kiyani, SC Chapman, F Sahraoui… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The anisotropic nature of solar wind magnetic turbulence fluctuations is investigated scale
by scale using high cadence in situ magnetic field measurements from the Cluster and ACE …

New insight into short-wavelength solar wind fluctuations from Vlasov theory

F Sahraoui, G Belmont, ML Goldstein - The Astrophysical Journal, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The nature of solar wind (SW) turbulence below the proton gyroscale is a topic that is being
investigated extensively nowadays, both theoretically and observationally. Although recent …

Kinetic turbulence in the terrestrial magnetosheath: Cluster observations

SY Huang, F Sahraoui, XH Deng, JS He… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a first statistical study of subproton-and electron-scale turbulence in the
terrestrial magnetosheath using waveform data measured by the Cluster/STAFF search coil …

Measurements of magnetic field fluctuations for plasma wave investigation by the search coil magnetometers (SCM) onboard BepiColombo Mio (Mercury …

S Yagitani, M Ozaki, F Sahraoui, L Mirioni… - Space Science …, 2020 - Springer
This paper describes the design and performance of the search coil magnetometers (SCM),
which are part of the Plasma Wave Investigation (PWI) instrument onboard the …

A model for the non-universal power law of the solar wind sub-ion-scale magnetic spectrum

T Passot, PL Sulem - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT A phenomenological turbulence model for kinetic Alfvén waves in a magnetized
collisionless plasma that is able to reproduce the non-universal power-law spectra observed …

Testing of the Taylor frozen-in-flow hypothesis at electron scales in the solar wind turbulence

SY Huang, F Sahraoui - The Astrophysical Journal, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
In single-spacecraft observations the Taylor frozen-in-flow hypothesis is usually used to infer
wavenumber spectra of turbulence from the frequency ones. While this hypothesis can be …

Influence of the nonlinearity parameter on the solar wind sub-ion magnetic energy spectrum: FLR–Landau fluid simulations

PL Sulem, T Passot, D Laveder… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The cascade of kinetic Alfvén waves (KAWs) at sub-ion scales in the solar wind is simulated
numerically using a fluid approach that retains ion and electron Landau damping, together …

Observation and theoretical modeling of electron scale solar wind turbulence

F Sahraoui, ML Goldstein, K Abdul-Kader… - Comptes Rendus …, 2011 - Elsevier
Turbulence at MagnetoHydroDynamics (MHD) scales in the solar wind has been studied for
more than three decades, using data analysis, theoretical and numerical modeling …