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Observations of cross scale energy transfer in the inner heliosphere by Parker Solar Probe
Parashar, Tulasi N.; Matthaeus, William H.
The solar wind, a continuous flow of plasma from the sun, not only shapes the near Earth space environment but also serves as a natural laboratory to study plasma turbulence in conditions that are not achievable in the lab. Starting with the Mariners, for more than five decades, multiple space missions have enabled in-depth studies of solar wind t…
Kinetic properties of collisionless magnetic reconnection in space plasma: in situ observations
Zhou, Meng; Deng, Xiaohua; Zhong, Zhihong
In collisionless plasmas, magnetic reconnection is widely recognized as one of the most important energy conversion and dissipation processes. Although reconnection is usually manifested as macroscopic effects, such as large-scale magnetic topology change and fast plasma flows, kinetic physics is the underlying process driving these macroscopic ph…
Interaction of convective plasma and small-scale magnetic fields in the lower solar atmosphere
Utz, Dominik; Vargas Domínguez, Santiago
In the following short review we will outline some of the possible interaction processes of lower solar atmospheric plasma with the embedded small-scale solar magnetic fields. After introducing the topic, important types of small-scale solar magnetic field elements are outlined to then focus on their creation and evolution, and finally end up desc…
Kinetic Alfvén waves in the magnetotail during substorms
Wang, Chi; Dai, Lei; Duan, Suping
Kinetic Alfvén waves (KAWs) are low-frequency dispersive Alfvén waves with a small perpendicular wavelength and long parallel wavelength to the ambient magnetic field direction. KAWs carry the parallel electric field with a large perpendicular wave vector angle to the ambient magnetic field. It is well known that KAWs play a significant role in th…
Acoustic waves in the Jovian dusty magnetosphere: a brief review and meta-analysis
Das, Souvik; Atteya, Ahmed; Karmakar, Pralay Kumar
The omnipresence of dust particulates in space and astrophysical plasmas has been attracting numerous researchers to study the collective excitation and propagation dynamics of different eigen-mode structures in diversified astrocosmic circumstances for years. It includes planetary rings, interplanetary space, cometary tails, asteroid zones, plane…
Magnetohydrodynamic and kinetic scale turbulence in the near-Earth space plasmas: a (short) biased review
Sahraoui, Fouad; Huang, Shiyong; Hadid, Lina
The near-Earth space is a unique laboratory to explore turbulence and energy dissipation processes in magnetized plasmas thanks to the availability of high-quality data from various orbiting spacecraft, such as Wind, Stereo, Cluster, Themis, and the more recent one, the NASA Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission. In comparison with the solar win…
The interaction of ultra-low-frequency pc3-5 waves with charged particles in Earth's magnetosphere
Zong, Qiugang; Rankin, Robert; Zhou, Xuzhi
One of the most important issues in space physics is to identify the dominant processes that transfer energy from the solar wind to energetic particle populations in Earth's inner magnetosphere. Ultra-low-frequency (ULF) waves are an important consideration as they propagate electromagnetic energy over vast distances with little dissipation and in…
Shocks in collisionless plasmas
Liu, Y.; Parks, G. K.; Fu, S. Y. +3 more
The Earth's bow shock is the best-known collisionless shock in space. Although much is known about the bow shock, the mechanisms of heating and thermalization processes still remain poorly understood. Collisionless shocks are different from ordinary fluid shocks, because a fraction of the incident solar wind is reflected from the bow shock and the…