The properties of the solar corona and its connection to the solar wind

SR Cranmer, AR Winebarger - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The corona is a layer of hot plasma that surrounds the Sun, traces out its complex magnetic
field, and ultimately expands into interplanetary space as the supersonic solar wind …

Electron-driven instabilities in the solar wind

D Verscharen, BDG Chandran, E Boella… - Frontiers in astronomy …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The electrons are an essential particle species in the solar wind. They often exhibit non-
equilibrium features in their velocity distribution function. These include temperature …

High-resolution hybrid simulations of kinetic plasma turbulence at proton scales

L Franci, S Landi, L Matteini, A Verdini… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate properties of plasma turbulence from magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) to sub-
ion scales by means of two-dimensional, high-resolution hybrid particle-in-cell simulations …

HelioSwarm: a multipoint, multiscale mission to characterize turbulence

KG Klein, H Spence, O Alexandrova, M Argall… - Space Science …, 2023 - Springer
HelioSwarm (HS) is a NASA Medium-Class Explorer mission of the Heliophysics Division
designed to explore the dynamic three-dimensional mechanisms controlling the physics of …

Dissipation measures in weakly collisional plasmas

O Pezzi, H Liang, JL Juno, PA Cassak… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The physical foundations of the dissipation of energy and the associated heating in weakly
collisional plasmas are poorly understood. Here, we compare and contrast several …

Constraining ion-scale heating and spectral energy transfer in observations of plasma turbulence

TA Bowen, A Mallet, SD Bale, JW Bonnell, AW Case… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
We perform a statistical study of the turbulent power spectrum at inertial and kinetic scales
observed during the first perihelion encounter of the Parker Solar Probe. We find that often …

Fully kinetic versus reduced-kinetic modeling of collisionless plasma turbulence

D Grošelj, SS Cerri, AB Navarro… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the results of a direct comparison between different kinetic models of collisionless
plasma turbulence in two spatial dimensions. The models considered include a first …

Electron heating in kinetic-Alfvén-wave turbulence

M Zhou, Z Liu, NF Loureiro - Proceedings of the National …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
We report analytical and numerical investigations of subion-scale turbulence in low-beta
plasmas using a rigorous reduced kinetic model. We show that efficient electron heating …

Mediation of collisionless turbulent dissipation through cyclotron resonance

TA Bowen, SD Bale, BDG Chandran, A Chasapis… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The dissipation of turbulence in astrophysical systems is fundamental to energy transfer and
heating in environments ranging from the solar wind and corona to accretion disks and the …

Kinetic plasma turbulence: recent insights and open questions from 3D3V simulations

SS Cerri, D Grošelj, L Franci - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Turbulence and kinetic processes in magnetized space plasmas have been extensively
investigated over the past decades via in-situ spacecraft measurements, theoretical models …