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Counterstreaming Beams and Flat-Top Electron Distributions Observed with Langmuir, Whistler, and Compressional Alfvén Waves in Earth's Magnetic Tail
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.075003 Bibcode: 2009PhRvL.102g5003T

Parks, George K.; Teste, Alexandra

Relevant new clues to wave-particle interactions have been obtained in Earth’s plasma sheet (PS). The plasma measurements made on Cluster spacecraft show that broadband (∼2-6kHz) electrostatic emissions, in the PS boundary layer, are associated with cold counterstreaming electrons flowing at 5-12×103kms-1 through hot Maxwelli…

2009 Physical Review Letters
Cluster 21
Generalized Similarity in Finite Range Solar Wind Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.241101 Bibcode: 2009PhRvL.103x1101C

Chapman, S. C.; Nicol, R. M.

Extended or generalized similarity is a ubiquitous but not well understood feature of turbulence that is realized over a finite range of scales. The ULYSSES spacecraft solar polar passes at solar minimum provide in situ observations of evolving anisotropic magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in the solar wind under ideal conditions of fast quiet flow. …

2009 Physical Review Letters
Ulysses 14