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Magnetized vortex tubes in the solar wind plasma

Moussas, X.; Polygiannakis, J. M.

We make new applications of our previously proposed method for estimating the strain-rate tensor and vorticity vector in plasmas (concerning the local deformation and self rotation of the plasma fluid elements, respectively) solely from magnetic field time series. Here we use solar wind measurements of Ulysses spacecraft made in the outer heliosph…

Nonlinear electromagnetic waves and spherical arc-polarized waves in space plasmas

Neubauer, Fritz M.; Tsurutani, Bruce T.; Glassmeier, Karl-Heinz +3 more

We review observations of nonlinear plasma waves detected by interplanetary spacecraft. For this paper we will focus primarily on the phase-steepened properties of such waves. Plasma waves at comet Giacobini - Zinner measured by the international cometary explorer (ICE), at comets Halley and Grigg - Skjellerup measured by Giotto, and interplanetar…

Alfvén waves in the solar corona and solar wind

Velli, M.; Pruneti, F.