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The turbulent spectrum of magnetic fluctuations in the solar wind displays a spectral break at ion characteristic scales. At electron scales the spectral shape is not yet completely established. Here, we perform a statistical study of 102…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-11-28 O. Alexandrova , C. Lacombe , A. Mangeney , R. Grappin

The scaling of magnetic fluctuations provides crucial information for the understanding of solar wind turbulence. However, the observed magnetic fluctuations contain not only turbulence but also magnetic structures, leading to the violation…

Space Physics · Physics 2023-04-26 Honghong Wu , Jiansen He , Shiyong Huang , Liping Yang , Xin Wang , Zhigang Yuan

Spectral properties of a fully compressible solar wind Hall Magnetohydrodynamic plasma are investigated by means of time dependent three dimensional Hall MHD simulations. Our simulations, in agreement with spacecraft data, identify a…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Dastgeer Shaikh , G. P. Zank

We observe the anisotropy of the power spectral tensor of magnetic field fluctuations in the fast solar wind for the first time. In heliocentric RTN coordinates the power in each element of the tensor has a unique dependence on the angle…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Robert T. Wicks , Miriam A. Forman , Timothy S. Horbury , Sean Oughton

We present the first statistical study of the anisotropy of the magnetic field turbulence in the solar wind between 1 and 200Hz, i.e. from proton to sub-electron scales. We consider 93 10-minute intervals of Cluster/STAFF measurements. We…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-10-18 Catherine Lacombe , Olga Alexandrova , Lorenzo Matteini

Small-scale magnetic turbulence observed by the Cluster spacecraft in the plasma sheet is investigated by means of a wavelet estimator suitable for detecting distinct scaling characteristics even in noisy measurements. The spectral…

We propose a phenomenological model for incompressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. We argue that nonlinear-wave interaction weakens as the energy cascade proceeds to small scales, however, the anisotropy of fluctuations along the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Stanislav Boldyrev

The first estimation of the energy cascade rate ${|\epsilon_C|}$ of magnetosheath turbulence is obtained using the CLUSTER and THEMIS spacecraft data and an exact law of compressible isothermal magnetohydrodynamics turbulence.…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Lina Hadid , Fouad Sahraoui , Sebastien Galtier , Shiyong Huang

We present a measurement of the scale-dependent, three-dimensional structure of the magnetic field fluctuations in inertial range solar wind turbulence with respect to a local, physically motivated coordinate system. The Alfvenic…

Space Physics · Physics 2012-10-09 C. H. K. Chen , A. Mallet , A. A. Schekochihin , T. S. Horbury , R. T. Wicks , S. D. Bale

The anisotropy of turbulence in the fast solar wind, between the ion and electron gyroscales, is directly observed using a multispacecraft analysis technique. Second order structure functions are calculated at different angles to the local…

Motivated by recent observations of distinct parallel and perpendicular signatures in magnetic helicity measurements segregated by wave period and angle between the local magnetic field and the solar wind velocity, this paper undertakes a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Kristopher G. Klein , Gregory G. Howes , Jason M. TenBarge , John J. Podesta

Solar wind turbulence is often perceived as weakly compressible and the density fluctuations remain poorly understood both theoretically and observationally. Compressible magnetohydrodynamic simulations provide useful insights into the…

Space Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Senbei Du , Hui Li , Zhaoming Gan , Xiangrong Fu

We present the first survey of electric field data using the ARTEMIS spacecraft in the solar wind to study inertial range turbulence. It was found that the average perpendicular spectral index of the electric field depends on the frame of…

Space Physics · Physics 2012-08-20 C. H. K. Chen , S. D. Bale , C. Salem , F. S. Mozer

The scaling anisotropy is crucial to interpret the nonlinear interactions in solar wind turbulence. Previous observations provide diverse results and the structure function analyses are also reported to be an approach to investigate the…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-11-23 Honghong Wu , Chuanyi Tu , Xin Wang , Jiansen He , Liping Yang , Linghua Wang

Using the Parker Solar Probe data taken in the inner heliosphere, we investigate the power and spatial anisotropy of magnetic-field spectra at kinetic scales (i.e., around sub-ion scales) in solar wind turbulence in the inner heliosphere.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 S. Y. Huang , S. B. Xu , J. Zhang , F. Sahraoui , N. Andres , J. S. He , Z. G. Yuan , X. H. Deng , K. Jiang , Y. Y. Wei , Q. Y. Xiong , Z. Wang , L. Yu , R. T. Lin

We propose a phenomenological theory of strong incompressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in the presence of a strong large-scale external magnetic field. We argue that in the inertial range of scales, magnetic-field and velocity-field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stanislav Boldyrev

Incompressible and isotropic magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in plasms can be described by an exact relation for the energy flux through the scales. This Yaglom-like scaling law has been recently observed in the solar wind above the solar…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 V. Carbone , R. Marino , L. Sorriso-Valvo , A. Noullez , R. Bruno

Probing magnetic fields in the interstellar medium (ISM) is notoriously challenging. Motivated by the modern theories of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence and turbulence anisotropy, we introduce the Structure-Function Analysis (SFA) as a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-21 Yue Hu , Siyao Xu , A. Lazarian

We investigate possible links between the large-scale and small-scale features of solar wind fluctuations across the frequency break separating fluid and kinetic regimes. The aim is to correlate the magnetic field fluctuations polarization…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-01-26 D. Telloni , R. Bruno

At kinetic scales in the solar wind, instabilities transfer energy from particles to fluctuations in the electromagnetic fields while restoring plasma conditions towards thermodynamic equilibrium. We investigate the interplay between…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Simon Opie , Daniel Verscharen , Christopher H. K. Chen , Christopher J. Owen , Philip A. Isenberg