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We describe results from particle-in-cell simulations of driven turbulence in collisionless, magnetized, relativistic pair plasma. This physical regime provides a simple setting for investigating the basic properties of kinetic turbulence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-23 Vladimir Zhdankin , Dmitri A. Uzdensky , Gregory R. Werner , Mitchell C. Begelman

Using spatio-temporal spectra we show direct evidence of excitation of magnetosonic and Alfv\'en waves in three-dimensional compressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence at small Mach numbers. For the plasma pressure dominated regime, or high…

Compressive fluctuations are a minor yet significant component of astrophysical plasma turbulence. In the solar wind, long-wavelength compressive slow-mode fluctuations lead to changes in $\beta_{\parallel \mathrm p}\equiv 8\pi n_{\mathrm…

The rich structure that we observe in molecular clouds is due to the interplay between strong magnetic fields and supersonic (turbulent) velocity fluctuations. The velocity fluctuations interact with the magnetic field, causing it too to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-12 James R. Beattie , Christoph Federrath , Amit Seta

Various remote sensing observations have been used so far to probe the turbulent properties of the solar wind. Using the recently reported density modulation indices that are derived using angular broadening observations of Crab Nebula…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 K. Sasikumar Raja , Prasad Subramanian , Madhusudan Ingale , R. Ramesh , Milan Maksimovic

Solar electron beams responsible for type III radio emission generate Langmuir waves as they propagate out from the Sun. The Langmuir waves are observed via in-situ electric field measurements. These Langmuir waves are not smoothly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 Hamish A. S. Reid , Eduard P. Kontar

The origins and properties of large amplitude whistler wave packets in the solar wind are still unclear. In this Letter we utilise single spacecraft electric and magnetic field waveform measurements from the ARTEMIS mission to calculate the…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-09-23 D. Stansby , T. S. Horbury , C. H. K. Chen , L. Matteini

We investigate numerically the time evolution of velocity and magnetic field fluctuations in a coronal loop, focusing on the dynamics due to both phase mixing and turbulent cascade. The intensity, doppler velocity and non-thermal broadening…

We use magnetic field and ion moment data from the MFI and SWE instruments onboard the Wind spacecraft to study the nature of solar wind turbulence at ion-kinetic scales. We analyze the spectral properties of magnetic field fluctuations…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-03-26 Lloyd D. Woodham , Robert T. Wicks , Daniel Verscharen , Christopher J. Owen

The ratio of the rms electron density fluctuations to the background density in the solar wind (density modulation index, $\epsilon_{N} \equiv \Delta{N}/N$) is of vital importance in understanding several problems in heliospheric physics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Susanta Kumar Bisoi , P. Janardhan , M. Ingale , P. Subramanian , S. Ananthakrishnan , M. Tokumaru , K. Fujiki

The paper presents a new method for deriving turbulent heating of the solar wind using plasma moments and magnetic field data. We develop the method and then apply it to compute the turbulent heating of the solar wind proton plasma at 1AU.…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-01-06 George Livadiotis , Maher A. Dayeh , Gary P. Zank

The emission from the relativistically hot plasmas of high-energy astrophysical synchrotron sources, pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) in particular, depends on the level of magnetic fluctuations. Recent observations by the X-ray polarimeter IXPE…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-22 Luca Del Zanna , Niccolò Bucciantini , Simone Landi

Recent studies provide evidence for the multi-scale nature of magnetic turbulence in the plasma sheet. Wavelet methods represent modern time series analysis techniques suitable for the description of statistical characteristics of…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 W. Baumjohann , R. Nakamura , A. Runov , M. Volwerk , T. L. Zhang , A. Balogh

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

Observations by the Parker Solar Probe mission of the solar wind at about 35.7 solar radii reveal the existence of whistler wave packets with frequencies below 0.1 f/fce (20-80 Hz in the spacecraft frame). These waves often coincide with…

During Parker Solar Probe's first orbit, the solar wind plasma has been observed in situ closer than ever before, the perihelion on November 6th 2018 revealing a flow that is constantly permeated by large amplitude Alfv\'enic fluctuations.…

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…

During Type III solar radio bursts, beam-driven upper-hybrid wave turbulence is converted into electromagnetic emissions at the fundamental plasma frequency and its harmonic, through a chain of various linear and nonlinear wave processes.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Francisco Javier Polanco-Rodríguez , Catherine Krafft , Philippe Savoini

We investigate the validity of Taylor's Hypothesis (TH) in the analysis of Alfv\'enic fluctuations of velocity and magnetic fields in solar wind streams measured by Parker Solar Probe (PSP)~during the first four encounters. We use PSP…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 Jean C. Perez , Sofiane Bourouaine , Christopher H. K. Chen , Nour E. Raouafi

It is not fully understood how electromagnetic waves propagate through plasma density fluctuations when the size of the fluctuations is comparable with the wavelength of the incident radiation. In this paper, the perturbing effect of a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Alf Köhn , Eberhard Holzhauer , Jarrod Leddy , Matthew B Thomas , Roddy G L Vann