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Depending on the physical conditions involved the beam plasma systems may reveal new unstable regimes triggered by the wave instabilities of different nature. We show through linear theory and numerical simulations the existence of an…

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In the Earth auroral zone, the electron acceleration by Alfv\'en waves is sometimes a precursor of the non-propagating acceleration structures. In order to investigate how Alfv\'en waves could generate non-propagating electric fields, a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-03 Fabrice Mottez

Parametric instabilities of parallel propagating, circularly polarized finite amplitude Alfven waves in a uniform background plasma is studied, within a framework of one-dimensional Vlasov description for ions and massless electron fluid,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yasuhiro Nariyuki , Tohru Hada

The chiral magnetic effect emerges from a miroscopic level, and its interesting consequences have been discussed in the dynamics of the early universe, neutron stars and quark-gluon plasma. An instability is caused by anomalous electric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-01 Yasufumi Kojima , Yuri Miura

Alfv\'en waves are responsible for the transfer of magnetic energy in the magnetized plasma. They are involved in heating solar atmosphere and driving solar wind through various nonlinear processes. Since the magnetic field configurations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-04 Takahito Sakaue , Kazunari Shibata

Using high-resolution data from Solar Orbiter, we investigate the plasma conditions necessary for the proton temperature anisotropy driven mirror-mode and oblique firehose instabilities to occur in the solar wind. We find that the unstable…

We present a study of magnetic field fluctuations, in a slow solar wind stream, close to ion scales, where an increase of the level of magnetic compressibility is observed. Here, the nature of these compressive fluctuations is found to be…

A phenomenological turbulence model for kinetic Alfv\'en waves in a magnetizedcollisionless plasma, able to reproduce the non-universalpower-law spectra observed at the sub-ion scales in the solar wind and the terrestrial magnetosphere, is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-11-04 T. Passot , P. L. Sulem

The linear non-modal kinetic theory of the kinetic drift-Alfven instability of plasma shear flows reveals the temporal non-modal growth with growing with time growth rate. The turbulent scattering of the sheared modes on ions accelerates…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 V. V. Mikhailenko , V. S. Mikhailenko , Hae June Lee , M. E. Koepke

The role of interchange reconnection as a drive mechanism for the solar wind is explored by solving the global magnetic-field-aligned equations describing wind acceleration. Boundary conditions in the low corona, including a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-16 J. F. Drake , S. D. Bale , M. Swisdak , N. E. Raouafi , M. Velli

Ion-acoustic waves are routinely observed at collisionless shocks and could be an important source of resistivity. The source of instability and the effects of the waves are not fully understood. We show, using Magnetospheric Multiscale…

Space Physics · Physics 2025-02-13 Daniel B. Graham , Yuri V. Khotyaintsev , Ahmad Lalti

The evolution of a deformed subcritical fast magnetosonic shock front is compared between two two-dimensional PIC simulations with different orientations of the magnetic field relative to the simulation box. All other initial and simulation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-11-21 M E Dieckmann , A Bret , D Folini , R Walder

We suggest that the observed long-period Alfv{\'e}n waves in the solar wind may be generated in the solar interior due to the pulsation of the Sun in the fundamental radial mode. The period of this pulsation is about 1 hour. The pulsation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. V. Zaqarashvili , G. Belvedere

We present results of 2D and 3D PIC simulations of magnetic turbulence production by isotropic cosmic-ray ions drifting upstream of SNR shocks. The studies aim at testing recent predictions of a strong amplification of short wavelength…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jacek Niemiec , Martin Pohl , Thomas Stroman , and Ken-Ichi Nishikawa

In magnetized, stratified astrophysical environments such as the Sun's corona and solar wind, Alfv\'enic fluctuations ''reflect'' from background gradients, enabling nonlinear interactions and thus dissipation of their energy into heat.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-22 Romain Meyrand , Jonathan Squire , Alfred Mallet , Benjamin D. G. Chandran

A Hamiltonian two-field gyrofluid model for kinetic Alfv\'en waves (KAWs) in a magnetized electron-proton plasma, retaining ion finite-Larmor-radius corrections and parallel magnetic field fluctuations, is used to study the inverse cascades…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-01 George Miloshevich , Dimitri Laveder , Thierry Passot , Pierre-Louis Sulem

Many cool stars possess complex magnetic fields [1] that are considered to undertake a central role in the structuring and energising of their atmospheres [2]. Alfv\'enic waves are thought to make a critical contribution to energy transfer…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-12 R. J. Morton , M. Weberg , J. A. McLaughlin

Runaway particles can be produced in plasmas with large electric fields. Here we address the possibility that such runaway ions and electrons excite Alfv\'enic instabilities. The magnetic perturbation induced by these modes can enhance the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 T Fülöp , S Newton

The solar atmosphere is known to be replete with magneto-hydrodynamic wave modes, and there has been significant investment in understanding how these waves propagate through the Sun's atmopshere and deposit their energy into the plasma.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-14 R. J. Morton , R. Sharma , E. Tajfirouze , H. Miriyala

Alfv\'{e}nic turbulent cascade perpendicular and parallel to the background magnetic field is studied accounting for anisotropic dispersive effects and turbulent intermittency. The perpendicular dispersion and intermittency make the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 J. S. Zhao , Y. M. Voitenko , D. J. Wu , M. Y. Yu