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We use high spatial and temporal resolution observations, simultaneously obtained with the New Vacuum Solar Telescope and Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory, to investigate the high-frequency…

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The transport of energetic particles in response to solar wind turbulence is important for space weather. To understand charged particle transport, it is usually assumed that the phase of the turbulence is randomly distributed (the random…

Space Physics · Physics 2023-05-09 Masaru Nakanotani , Lingling Zhao , Gary P. Zank

We study the propagation, reflection, and turbulent dissipation of Alfven waves in coronal holes and the solar wind. We start with the Heinemann-Olbert equations, which describe non-compressive magnetohydrodynamic fluctuations in an…

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A simple analytical relation of form {\alpha} = 2 {\kappa} -1 between the magnetic energy spectral exponent {\alpha} of the turbulent magnetic field in the solar photosphere and its magnetic flux cancellation exponent {\kappa}, valid under…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-08 G. Marschalkó , K. Petrovay

Solar wind turbulence is a dynamical phenomenon that evolves with heliocentric distance. Orbiting Mars since September 2014, Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) offers a unique opportunity to explore some of its main properties…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-27 Norberto Romanelli , Nahuel Andres , Gina DiBraccio , Jaye Verniero , Jacob Gruesbeck , Adam Szabo , Jared Espley , Jasper Halekas

We demonstrate the calculation of solar wind electron bulk parameters from recent observations by Solar Wind Analyser Electron Analyser System on board Solar Orbiter. We use our methods to derive the electron bulk parameters in a time…

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

A complete theory for the complex interaction between solar energetic particles and the turbulent interplanetary magnetic field remains elusive. In this work we aim to contribute towards such a theory by modelling the propagation of solar…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 R. D. Strauss , J. A. le Roux

In this study we examine the radial dependence of the inertial and dissipation range indices, as well as the spectral break separating the inertial and dissipation range in power density spectra of interplanetary magnetic field fluctuations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 S. Lotz , A. E. Nel , R. T. Wicks , O. W. Roberts , N. E. Engelbrecht , R. D. Strauss , G. J. J. Botha , E. P. Kontar , A. Pitna , S. D. Bale

Remarkable progress has been made in understanding turbulent astrophysical plasmas in past decades including, notably, the solar wind and the interstellar medium. In the case of the solar wind, much of this progress has relied on in situ…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-12 Tim Bastian , James Cordes , Justin Kasper , Adam Kobelski , Kelly Korreck , Gregory Howe , Steven Spangler , Chadi Salem , Angelos Vourlidas

Treatments of the radio scattering due to density turbulence in the solar wind typically employ asymptotic approximations to the phase structure function. We use a general structure function (GSF) that straddles the asymptotic limits and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-28 Madhusudan Ingale

Electric field measurements of the Time Domain Sampler (TDS) receiver, part of the Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) instrument on board Solar Orbiter, often exhibit very intense broadband wave emissions at frequencies below 20~kHz in the…

We discuss properties of Alfv\'enic fluctuations with large amplitude in plasmas characterised by low magnetic field compression. We note that in such systems power laws can not develop with arbitrarily steep slopes at large scales, i.e.…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Lorenzo Matteini , David Stansby , Timothy Horbury , Christopher H. K. Chen

Solar Orbiter was launched on February 10, 2020 with the purpose of investigating solar and heliospheric physics using a payload of instruments designed for both remote and in-situ sensing. Similar to the recently launched Parker Solar…

Spacecraft measurements show that protons undergo substantial perpendicular heating during their transit from the Sun to the outer heliosphere. In this paper, we use {\em Helios~2} measurements to investigate whether stochastic heating by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Sofiane Bourouaine , Benjamin D. G. Chandran

We present a measurement of the spectral index of density fluctuations between ion and electron scales in solar wind turbulence using the EFI instrument on the ARTEMIS spacecraft. The mean spectral index at 1 AU was found to be -2.75 +/-…

Space Physics · Physics 2012-07-17 C. H. K. Chen , C. S. Salem , J. W. Bonnell , F. S. Mozer , S. D. Bale

We present a long-duration ($\sim$10 years) statistical analysis of the temperatures, plasma betas, and temperature ratios for the electron, proton, and alpha-particle populations observed by the \emph{Wind} spacecraft near 1 AU. The…

Acoustic power and oscillation amplitudes of radial oscillations computed for a solar model are compared with solar seismic observations. The oscillations are assumed stochastically excited by turbulence. The numerical computations are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Reza Samadi , Marie-Jo Goupil , Yveline Lebreton

Plasma turbulence involves complex, nonlinear interactions of electromagnetic fields and charged particles across multiple scales. Studying these phenomena in space plasmas, like the solar wind, is facilitated by the intrinsic scale…

The transfer of a star's angular momentum to its atmosphere is a topic of considerable and wide-ranging interest in astrophysics. This letter considers the effect of kinetic and magnetic turbulence on the solar wind's angular momentum. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-07 Rohit Chhiber , Arcadi Usmanov , William H. Matthaeus , Francesco Pecora