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Temperature anisotropy instabilities driven by intermittent velocity shears in the solar wind

Sorriso-Valvo, Luca; Verscharen, Daniel; Chen, Christopher H. K. +5 more

Where and under what conditions the transfer of energy between electromagnetic fields and particles takes place in the solar wind remains an open question. We investigate the conditions that promote the growth of kinetic instabilities predicted by linear theory to infer how turbulence and temperature-anisotropy-driven instabilities are interrelate…