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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…

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We discuss magnetic pressure and density fluctuations in strongly turbulent isothermal MHD flows in "1+2/3" dimensions. We first consider "simple" nonlinear MHD waves, which allow us show that the slow and fast modes have different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thierry Passot , Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni

Understanding the nature of compressible fluctuations in a broad range of turbulent plasmas, from the intracluster medium to the solar wind, has been an active field of research in the past decades. Theoretical frameworks for weakly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-14 Riddhi Bandyopadhyay , James R. Beattie , Amitava Bhattacharjee

We investigate the spectral shape, the anisotropy of the wave vector distributions and the anisotropy of the amplitudes of the magnetic fluctuations in the Earth's magnetosheath within a broad range of frequencies. We present the first…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Olga Alexandrova , Catherine Lacombe , Andre Mangeney

We present three-dimensional magnetic power spectra in wavevector space to investigate anisotropy and scalings of sub-Alfv\'enic solar wind turbulence at magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) scale using the Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-29 S. Q. Zhao , Huirong Yan , Terry Z. Liu , Mingzhe Liu , Huizi Wang

The solar wind is a magnetized and turbulent plasma. Its turbulence is often dominated by Alfv\'enic fluctuations and often deemed as nearly incompressible far away from the Sun, as shown by in-situ measurements near 1AU. However, for solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Xiangrong Fu , Hui Li , Zhaoming Gan , Senbei Du , John Steinberg

The interstellar turbulence is magnetized and thus anisotropic. The anisotropy of turbulent magnetic fields and velocities is imprinted in the related observables, rotation measures (RMs), and velocity centroids (VCs). This anisotropy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-07 Siyao Xu , Yue Hu

Turbulence is a ubiquitous process that transfers energy across many spatial and temporal scales, thereby influencing particle transport and heating. Recent progress has improved our understanding of the anisotropy of turbulence with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-08 Siqi Zhao , Huirong Yan , Terry Z. Liu , Chuanpeng Hou

We use a set of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations of fully-developed (driven) turbulence to study the anisotropy in the velocity field that is induced by the presence of the magnetic field. In our models we study turbulence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Alejandro Esquivel , Alex Lazarian

We investigate the transition of the solar wind turbulent cascade from MHD to sub-ion range by means of a detail comparison between in situ observations and hybrid numerical simulations. In particular we focus on the properties of the…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-09-01 L. Matteini , L. Franci , O. Alexandrova , C. Lacombe , S. Landi , P. Hellinger , E. Papini , A. Verdini

We present numerical simulations and explore scalings and anisotropy of compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. Our study covers both gas pressure dominated (high beta) and magnetically dominated (low beta) plasmas at different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 Jungyeon Cho , A. Lazarian

Observations of magnetic field strengths imply that molecular cloud fragments are individually close to being in a magnetically critical state, even though both magnetic field and column density measurements range over two orders of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shantanu Basu

We present a set of three-dimensional (3D) direct numerical simulations of incompressible decaying magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in which we investigate the influence of an external uniform magnetic field B_0. A parametric study in terms…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Barbara Bigot , Sebastien Galtier , Helene Politano

In-situ observations in the Earth's and Saturn's magnetosheaths and in the solar wind reveal the presence of Alfv\'en vortices as intermittent structures in the range of scales from fluid lengths down to few ion lengths. The density and the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-04-16 Dusan Jovanovic , Olga Alexandrova , Milan Maksimovic , Milivoj Belic

We present high resolution numerical simulations of compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. We concentrate on studies of spectra and anisotropy of velocity and density. We describe a technique of separating different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Jungyeon Cho , A. Lazarian

Compressible turbulence, especially the magnetized version of it, traditionally has a bad reputation with researchers. However, recent progress in theoretical understanding of incompressible MHD as well as that in computational capabilities…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jungyeon Cho , A. Lazarian

Large-amplitude turbulence -- characterized by a fluctuating magnetic field component, $\delta B$, that is stronger than the mean component, $B_0$ -- is generically intermittent, populated with intense localized structures such as sharp…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-07 Ryan Golant , Luca Comisso , Philipp Kempski , Lorenzo Sironi

We calculate and analyze the longevity of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) wave modes that occur in the plane of a magnetic thin sheet. Initial turbulent conditions applied to a magnetically subcritical cloud are shown to lead to relatively rapid…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-08-19 Shantanu Basu , Wolf B. Dapp

We study the magnetic field to density ($B-\rho$) relation in turbulent molecular clouds with dynamically important magnetic fields using nonideal three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations. Our simulations show that there is a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-30 Sayantan Auddy , Shantanu Basu , Takahiro Kudoh

We measure the local anisotropy of numerically simulated strong Alfv\'enic turbulence with respect to two local, physically relevant directions: along the local mean magnetic field and along the local direction of one of the fluctuating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 A. Mallet , A. A. Schekochihin , B. D. G. Chandran , C. H. K. Chen , T. S. Horbury , R. T. Wicks , C. C. Greenan
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