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The proper classification of plasma regions in near-Earth space is crucial to perform unambiguous statistical studies of fundamental plasma processes such as shocks, magnetic reconnection, waves and turbulence, jets and their combinations.…

Turbulence in the Local Bubble could play an important role in the thermodynamics of the gas that is there. The best astronomical technique for measuring turbulence in astrophysical plasmas is radio scintillation. Measurements of the level…

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We use the COMPLETE Survey's observations of the Perseus star-forming region to assess and intercompare three methods for measuring column density in molecular clouds: extinction mapping (NIR); thermal emission mapping (FIR); and mapping…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Alyssa A. Goodman , Jaime E. Pineda , Scott L. Schnee

A novel multispacecraft technique applied to Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission data collected in the Earth's magnetosheath enables evaluation of the energy cascade rate solving the full Yaglom's equation in a turbulent space plasma.…

X-ray observations of galaxy clusters potentially provide powerful cosmological probes if systematics due to our incomplete knowledge of the intracluster medium (ICM) physics are understood and controlled. In this paper, we present mock…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Daisuke Nagai , Alexey Vikhlinin , Andrey V. Kravtsov

Cluster number counts will be a key cosmological probe in the next decade thanks to the Euclid satellite mission. For this purpose, cluster detection algorithm performance, which are sensitive to the spatial distribution of the cluster…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-19 A. Jiménez Muñoz , J. F. Macías-Pérez , G. Yepes , M. De Petris , A. Ferragamo , W. Cui , J. S. Gómez

Exploration of plasma dynamics in space, including turbulence, is entering a new era of multi-satellite constellation measurements that will determine fundamental properties with unprecedented precision. Familiar but imprecise…

The use of submm dust continuum emission to probe the mass of interstellar dust and gas in galaxies is empirically calibrated using samples of local star forming galaxies, Planck observations of the Milky Way and high redshift submm…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 N. Scoville , H. Aussel , K. Sheth , K. S. Scott , D. Sanders , R. Ivison , A. Pope , P. Capak , P. Vanden Bout , S. Manohar , J. Kartaltepe , S. Lilly

The Cosmic Background Radiation gives us one of the few probes into the density perturbations in the early universe that should later lead to the formation of structure we now observe. Recent advances in degree scale anisotropy measurements…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. M. Lubin

Pulsar dispersion measures (DMs) have been used to model the electron density of the interstellar medium (ISM) in the Galactic disk as a plane-parallel medium, despite significant scatter in the DM-distance distribution and strong evidence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-10 Stella Koch Ocker , James M. Cordes , Shami Chatterjee

A new clustering accuracy measure is proposed to determine the unknown number of clusters and to assess the quality of clustering of a data set given in any dimensional space. Our validity index applies the classical nonparametric…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-02-15 Soumita Modak

Using in situ data, accumulated in the turbulent magnetosheath by the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Mission, we report a statistical study of magnetic field curvature and discuss its role in the turbulent space plasmas. Consistent with…

Understanding the stability mechanism of surface micro/nanobubbles adhered to gas-evolving electrodes is essential for improving the efficiency of water electrolysis, which is known to be hindered by the bubble coverage on electrodes. Using…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-16 Yixin Zhang , Xiaojue Zhu , Jeffery A. Wood , Detlef Lohse

New measurements using radio and plasma-wave instruments in interplanetary space have shown that nanometer-scale dust, or nanodust, is a significant contributor to the total mass in interplanetary space. Better measurements of nanodust will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 G. Le Chat , A. Zaslavsky , N. Meyer-Vernet , K. Issautier , S. Belheouane , F. Pantellini , M. Maksimovic , I. Zouganelis , S. D. Bale , J. C. Kasper

Polarized emission from aligned dust is a crucial tool for studies of magnetism in the ISM and a troublesome contaminant for studies of CMB polarization. In each case, an understanding of the significance of the polarization signal requires…

We present a new cosmological probe for galaxy clusters, the halo sparsity. This characterises halos in terms of the ratio of halo masses measured at two different radii and carries cosmological information encoded in the halo mass profile.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 P. S. Corasaniti , S. Ettori , Y. Rasera , M. Sereno , S. Amodeo , M. -A. Breton , V. Ghirardini , D. Eckert

Using cosmological MHD simulations of the magnetic field in galaxy clusters and filaments we evaluate the possibility to infer the magnetic field strength in filaments by measuring cross-correlation functions between Faraday Rotation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 F. Stasyszyn , S. E. Nuza , K. Dolag , R. Beck , J. Donnert

Plasma turbulence is investigated using high-resolution ion velocity distributions measured by the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) in the Earth's magnetosheath. The particle distribution is highly structured, suggesting a…

We propose that "standard pings", brief broadband radio impulses, can be used to study the three-dimensional clustering of matter in the Universe even in the absence of redshift information. The dispersion of radio waves as they travel…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 Kiyoshi Wesley Masui , Kris Sigurdson

We use the plasma density based on measurements of the probe-to-spacecraft potential in combination with magnetic field measurements by MAG to study fields and density fluctuations in the solar wind observed by Solar Orbiter during the…