Jets downstream of collisionless shocks

F Plaschke, H Hietala, M Archer, X Blanco-Cano… - Space Science …, 2018 - Springer
The magnetosheath flow may take the form of large amplitude, yet spatially localized,
transient increases in dynamic pressure, known as “magnetosheath jets” or “plasmoids” …

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 …

MMS observation of magnetic reconnection in the turbulent magnetosheath

Z Vörös, E Yordanova, A Varsani… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper we use the full armament of the MMS (Magnetospheric Multiscale) spacecraft to
study magnetic reconnection in the turbulent magnetosheath downstream of a quasi …

Electron scale structures and magnetic reconnection signatures in the turbulent magnetosheath

E Yordanova, Z Vörös, A Varsani… - Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Collisionless space plasma turbulence can generate reconnecting thin current sheets as
suggested by recent results of numerical magnetohydrodynamic simulations. The …

The importance of electron Landau damping for the dissipation of turbulent energy in terrestrial magnetosheath plasma

AS Afshari, GG Howes, CA Kletzing… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Heliospheric plasma turbulence plays a key role in transferring the energy of large‐scale
magnetic field and plasma flow fluctuations to smaller scales where the energy can be …

Turbulent cascade and energy transfer rate in a solar coronal mass ejection

L Sorriso-Valvo, E Yordanova… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Turbulence properties are examined before, during, and after a coronal mass ejection
(CME) detected by the Wind spacecraft in 2012 July. The power-law scaling of the structure …

Current sheet statistics in the magnetosheath

E Yordanova, Z Vörös, S Raptis… - Frontiers in Astronomy …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The magnetosheath (MSH) plasma turbulence depends on the structure and properties of
the bow shock (BS). Under quasi-parallel (Q||) and quasi-perpendicular (Q⊥) BS …

Magnetosheath jet properties and evolution as determined by a global hybrid-Vlasov simulation

M Palmroth, H Hietala, F Plaschke… - Annales …, 2018 - angeo.copernicus.org
We use a global hybrid-Vlasov simulation for the magnetosphere, Vlasiator, to investigate
magnetosheath high-speed jets. Unlike many other hybrid-kinetic simulations, Vlasiator …

Scale‐dependent kurtosis of magnetic field fluctuations in the solar wind: A multi‐scale study with cluster 2003–2015

OW Roberts, O Alexandrova… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
During the lifetime of the Cluster mission, the inter‐spacecraft distances in the solar wind
have changed from the large, fluid, scales (∼ 104 km), down to the scales of protons (∼ 102 …

A possible link between turbulence and plasma heating

E Yordanova, Z Vörös, L Sorriso-Valvo… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Numerical simulations and experimental results have shown that the formation of current
sheets in space plasmas can be associated with enhanced vorticity. Also, in simulations the …