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One of the primary objectives for Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) is to detect a stochastic background generated by the incoherent superposition of gravitational waves (GWs), in particular from the cosmic population of supermassive black hole…

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In this study, we investigate the scenario in which the stochastic signal arises from primordial gravitational waves. Within this framework, we consider two distinct possibilities: one in which the pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) signal…

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We present a statistical analysis of electrostatic solitary waves observed aboard Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft in the Earth's magnetosheath. Applying single-spacecraft interferometry to several hundred solitary waves collected in…

Observations of plasma waves by the Fields Suite and of electrons by the Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons Investigation (SWEAP) on Parker Solar Probe provide strong evidence for pitch angle scattering of strahl-energy electrons by…

The behavior of capacitive coupled plasma (CCP) discharges is investigated in a mildly magnetized regime, defined by the condition 1 $\leq$ $f_{ce}/f_{rf}$ $\lt$ 2, where $f_{ce}$ and $f_{rf}$ are the cyclotron and radio-frequencies (RF),…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Deepak Gautam , Sarveshwar Sharma , Igor Kaganovich , Bhooshan Paradkar

The Earth's Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO) is a natural example of wave-mean flow interaction and corresponds to the alternating directions of winds in the equatorial stratosphere. It is due to internal gravity waves (IGW) generated in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 Florentin Daniel , Daniel Lecoanet

Energy dissipation and particle acceleration in the collisionless magnetotail plasma remain incompletely understood. While Kinetic Alfv\'en Waves (KAWs) are widely hypothesized to mediate these processes, observational characterization of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Mani K Chettri , Hemam D. Singh , Rupak Mukherjee

The dynamics of the upper mesosphere of Venus (~85-115 km) have been characterized as a combination of a retrograde superrotating zonal wind (RSZ) with a subsolar-to-antisolar flow (SSAS). Numerous mm-wave single-dish observations have been…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 A. Moullet , E. Lellouch , R. Moreno , M. Gurwell , H. Sagawa

Whistler waves are intermittently present in the solar wind, while their origin and effects are not entirely understood. We present a statistical analysis of magnetic field fluctuations in the whistler frequency range (above 16 Hz) based on…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Yuguang Tong , Ivan Y. Vasko , Anton V. Artemyev , Stuart D. Bale , Forrest S. Mozer

The 'Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence and Electrodynamics of the Moon's Interaction with the Sun' (ARTEMIS) mission provides a unique opportunity to study the structure of interplanetary shocks and the associated generation of plasma…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 L. Davis , C. A. Cattell , L. B. Wilson , Z. A. Cohen , A. W. Breneman , E. L. M. Hanson

Origin of energetic upstream ions propagating towards the Sun from the Earth's bow shock is not understood clearly. In this letter, relationship between solar wind suprathermal and upstream ions has been investigated by analyzing fluxes of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-18 Bijoy Dalal , Dibyendu Chakrabarty , Christina M. S. Cohen , Nandita Srivastava

This letter describes a new phenomenon on the Parker Solar Probe of recurring plasma density enhancements that have $\Delta$n/n ~10% and that occur at a repetition rate of ~5 Hz. They were observed sporadically for about five hours between…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-01 F. S. Mozer , O. Agapitov , S. D. Bale , R. Livi , O. Romeo , K. Sauer , I. Y. Vasko , J. Verniero

We present waveform observations of electromagnetic lower hybrid and whistler waves with f_ci << f < f_ce downstream of four supercritical interplanetary (IP) shocks using the Wind search coil magnetometer. The whistler waves were observed…

Pulsars with high spin-down power produce relativistic winds radiating a fraction of the power in the range from radio to gamma-rays in the pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe). The rest of the power is dissipated in the interactions of the PWNe with…

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CMB (Cosmic Microwave Background) polarization observations test many aspects of cosmological models. Effective pseudoscalar-photon interaction(s) would induce a rotation of linear polarization of electromagnetic wave propagating with…

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Using linear Vlasov theory of plasma waves and quasi-linear theory of resonant wave-particle interaction, the dispersion relations and the electromagnetic field fluctuations of fast and Alfven waves are studied for a low-beta multi-ion…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-16 Ming Xiong , Xing Li

The growth of electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves (EMIC) due to a ring distribution of Hydrogen ions is examined. Though these distributions are more commonly implicated in the generation of equatorial noise, their potential for exciting…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Manish Mithaiwala , Chris Crabtree , Gurudas Ganguli , Leonid Rudakov , Kunihiro Keika

In the present paper we study impact of the photospheric 5-minute oscillations on the ion cyclotron waves in the solar wind. We proceed from the assumption that the ion cyclotron waves in solar wind are experiencing modulation with a…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Anatol Guglielmi , Alexander Potapov , Boris Dovbnya

Magnetic switchbacks are distinct magnetic structures characterized by their abrupt reversal in the radial component of the magnetic field within the pristine solar wind. Switchbacks are believed to lose magnetic energy with heliocentric…

A GHz maser beam with Gaussian-type distribution passing through a homogenous static magnetic field can be used to detect gravitational waves (GWs) with the same frequency. The presence of GWs will perturb the electromagnetic (EM) fields,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ming-lei Tong , Yang Zhang , Fang-Yu Li