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Modeling Space Plasma Dynamics with Anisotropic Kappa Distributions

Schlickeiser, R.; Pierrard, V.; Lazar, M. +1 more

Space plasmas are collisionpoor and kinetic effects prevail leading to wave fluctuations, which transfer the energy to small scales: wave-particle interactions replace collisions and enhance dispersive effects heating particles and producing suprathermal populations observed at any heliospheric distance in the solar wind. At large distances collis…

Observations of Electromagnetic Fluctuations at Ion Kinetic Scales in the Solar Wind

Podesta, John J.

Wavelet techniques enable reduced power spectra and cross-spectra to be analyzed as a function of the angle θ _BV formed by the scale dependent local mean magnetic field B ₀ and the flow direction of the solar wind. These techniques allow the data along a line oriented at any angle θ _BV to B ₀ to be iso…