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 …

Plasma and magnetic field turbulence in the Earth's magnetosheath at ion scales

L Rakhmanova, M Riazantseva… - Frontiers in Astronomy …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Crossing the Earth's bow shock is known to crucially affect solar wind plasma including
changes in turbulent cascade. The present review summarizes results of more than 15 years …

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 …

Solar wind turbulent cascade from MHD to sub-ion scales: large-size 3D hybrid particle-in-cell simulations

L Franci, S Landi, A Verdini, L Matteini… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Properties of the turbulent cascade from fluid to kinetic scales in collisionless
plasmas are investigated by means of large-size 3D hybrid (fluid electrons, kinetic protons) …

On stochastic heating and its phase-space signatures in low-beta kinetic turbulence

SS Cerri, L Arzamasskiy, MW Kunz - The Astrophysical Journal, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We revisit the theory of stochastic heating of ions and investigate its phase-space signatures
in kinetic turbulence of relevance to low-β portions of the solar wind. In particular, we retain a …

von Kármán–Howarth equation for Hall magnetohydrodynamics: hybrid simulations

P Hellinger, A Verdini, S Landi, L Franci… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
A dynamical vectorial equation for homogeneous incompressible Hall-
magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence together with the exact scaling law for third-order …

Solar wind turbulence studies using MMS fast plasma investigation data

R Bandyopadhyay, A Chasapis, R Chhiber… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Studies of solar wind turbulence traditionally employ high-resolution magnetic field data, but
high-resolution measurements of ion and electron moments have been possible only …

Hydrogen isotopic composition of hydrous minerals in asteroid Ryugu

L Piani, K Nagashima, N Kawasaki… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Rock fragments of the Cb-type asteroid Ryugu returned to Earth by the JAXA Hayabusa2
mission share mineralogical, chemical, and isotopic properties with the Ivuna-type (CI) …

Spectral properties and energy transfer at kinetic scales in collisionless plasma turbulence

G Arrò, F Califano, G Lapenta - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. Recent satellite observations in the solar wind and in the Earth's magnetosheath
have shown that the turbulent magnetic field spectrum, which is know to steepen around ion …

Turbulence upstream and downstream of interplanetary shocks

A Pitňa, J Šafránková, Z Němeček, T Ďurovcová… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The paper reviews the interaction of collisionless interplanetary (IP) shocks with the
turbulent solar wind. The coexistence of shocks and turbulence plays an important role in …