Kinetic instabilities in the solar wind driven by temperature anisotropies

PH Yoon - Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics, 2017 - Springer
The present paper comprises a review of kinetic instabilities that may be operative in the
solar wind, and how they influence the dynamics thereof. The review is limited to collective …

Low-frequency waves in the Earth's magnetosheath: present status

SJ Schwartz, D Burgess, JJ Moses - Annales Geophysicae, 1996 - angeo.copernicus.org
The terrestrial magnetosheath contains a rich variety of low-frequency (≲ proton
gyrofrequency) fluctuations. Kinetic and fluid-like processes at the bow shock, within the …

Magnetic spectral signatures in the Earth's magnetosheath and plasma depletion layer

BJ Anderson, SA Fuselier, SP Gary… - Journal of Geophysical …, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
Correlations between plasma properties and magnetic fluctuations in the subsolar
magnetosheath downstream of a quasi‐perpendicular shock have been found and indicate …

Low frequency waves at and upstream of collisionless shocks

LB Wilson III - Low‐frequency waves in space plasmas, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter focuses on the range of low frequency electromagnetic modes observed at and
upstream of collisionless shocks in the heliosphere. It discusses a specific class of whistler …

Ulysses field and plasma observations of magnetic holes in the solar wind and their relation to mirror‐mode structures

D Winterhalter, M Neugebauer… - Journal of …, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
The term “magnetic hole” has been used to denote isolated intervals when the magnitude of
the interplanetary magnetic field drops to a few tenths, or less, of its ambient value for a time …

Magnetic pulsations from 0.1 to 4.0 Hz and associated plasma properties in the Earth's subsolar magnetosheath and plasma depletion layer

BJ Anderson, SA Fuselier - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
Dynamic spectral analysis covering frequencies 0.1 to 4.0 Hz has been applied to analyze
Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Explorers CCE magnetic field data during periods of …

Properties of magnetosheath mirror modes observed by Cluster and their response to changes in plasma parameters

J Soucek, E Lucek, I Dandouras - Journal of Geophysical …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Mirror modes are large amplitude nonpropagating compressive structures frequently
observed in the magnetosheath. They appear in the form of quasi‐sinusoidal oscillations in …

Flows, fields, and forces in the Mars‐solar wind interaction

JS Halekas, DA Brain, JG Luhmann… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We utilize suprathermal ion and magnetic field measurements from the Mars Atmosphere
and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission, organized by the upstream magnetic field, to …

The ion cyclotron anisotropy instability and the inverse correlation between proton anisotropy and proton beta

SP Gary, MA Lee - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space …, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetosheath observations have shown an inverse correlation between the proton
temperature anisotropy and the parallel proton β. Computer simulations have produced …

Electron vortex magnetic holes: A nonlinear coherent plasma structure

CT Haynes, D Burgess, E Camporeale… - Physics of Plasmas, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
We report the properties of a novel type of sub-proton scale magnetic hole found in two
dimensional particle-in-cell simulations of decaying turbulence with a guide field. The …