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 …

Evidence for electron Landau damping in space plasma turbulence

CHK Chen, KG Klein, GG Howes - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
How turbulent energy is dissipated in weakly collisional space and astrophysical plasmas is
a major open question. Here, we present the application of a field-particle correlation …

MHD turbulence: a biased review

AA Schekochihin - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2022 - cambridge.org
This review of scaling theories of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence aims to put the
developments of the last few years in the context of the canonical time line (from Kolmogorov …

Role of magnetic reconnection in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

NF Loureiro, S Boldyrev - Physical Review Letters, 2017 - APS
The current understanding of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence envisions turbulent
eddies which are anisotropic in all three directions. In the plane perpendicular to the local …

Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence mediated by reconnection

S Boldyrev, NF Loureiro - The Astrophysical Journal, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
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Saturation mechanism of the fluctuation dynamo at

A Seta, PJ Bushby, A Shukurov, TS Wood - Physical Review Fluids, 2020 - APS
The presence of magnetic fields in many astrophysical objects is due to dynamo action,
whereby a part of the kinetic energy is converted into magnetic energy. A turbulent dynamo …

Kinetic-scale current sheets in the solar wind at 1 au: scale-dependent properties and critical current density

IY Vasko, K Alimov, T Phan, SD Bale… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present analysis of 17,043 proton kinetic-scale current sheets (CSs) collected over 124
days of Wind spacecraft measurements in the solar wind at 11 samples s− 1 magnetic field …

Particle energization in relativistic plasma turbulence: solenoidal versus compressive driving

V Zhdankin - The Astrophysical Journal, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Many high-energy astrophysical systems contain magnetized collisionless plasmas with
relativistic particles, in which turbulence can be driven by an arbitrary mixture of solenoidal …

Kinetic-scale current sheets in near-sun solar wind: properties, scale-dependent features and reconnection onset

AB Lotekar, IY Vasko, T Phan, SD Bale… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present statistical analysis of 11,200 proton kinetic-scale current sheets (CS) observed
by the Parker Solar Probe during 10 days around the first perihelion. The CS thickness λ is …

Spatial intermittency of particle distribution in relativistic plasma turbulence

C Vega, S Boldyrev, V Roytershteyn - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Relativistic magnetically dominated turbulence is an efficient engine for particle acceleration
in a collisionless plasma. Ultrarelativistic particles accelerated by interactions with turbulent …