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We present an attempt to measure the large angular scale fluctuations in the X-Ray Background (XRB) from the HEAO1-A2 data, expressed in terms of spherical harmonics. We model the harmonic coefficients assuming a power spectrum and an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Marie Treyer , Caleb Scharf , Ofer Lahav , Keith Jahoda , Elihu Boldt , Tsvi Piran

We investigate possible links between the large-scale and small-scale features of solar wind fluctuations across the frequency break separating fluid and kinetic regimes. The aim is to correlate the magnetic field fluctuations polarization…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-01-26 D. Telloni , R. Bruno

We obtain dispersion relations of magnetic field fluctuations for two crossings of the terrestrial foreshock by Cluster spacecraft. These crossings cover plasma conditions which differ significantly in their plasma $\beta$ but not in the…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-08-17 B. Hnat , D. O'Connell , V. M. Nakariakov

High time-resolution solar wind magnetic field data is employed to study statistics describing intermittency near the first perihelion (~35.6 Rs) of the Parker Solar Probe mission. A merged dataset employing two instruments on the FIELDS…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Rohit Chhiber , William H. Matthaeus , Trevor A. Bowen , Stuart D. Bale

We discuss, using simple analytical models and MHD simulations, the origin and parameters of turbulence and magnetic fields in galaxy clusters. Three physically distinct regimes can be identified in the evolution of cluster turbulence and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Kandaswamy Subramanian , Anvar Shukurov , Nils Erland L. Haugen

During the Parker Solar Probe's (PSP) first perihelion pass, the spacecraft reached within a heliocentric distance of \(\sim 37~R_\odot\) and observed numerous magnetic and flow structures characterized by sharp gradients. To better…

Multiplicity fluctuations of positively, negatively and all charged hadrons in the forward hemisphere were studied in central Pb+Pb collisions at 20A, 30A, 40A, 80A and 158A GeV. The multiplicity distributions and their scaled variances are…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2013-05-29 The NA49 Collaboration , B. Lungwitz

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

The physics of turbulence in magnetized plasmas remains an unresolved problem. The most poorly understood aspect is intermittency -- spatio-temporal fluctuations superimposed on the self-similar turbulent motions. We employ a novel…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-21 Trung Ha , Joonas Nättilä , Jordy Davelaar , Lorenzo Sironi

Using Parker Solar Probe data from orbits 8 through 17, we examine fluctuation amplitudes throughout the critical region where the solar wind flow speed approaches and then exceeds the Alfv\'en wave speed, taking account of various…

Microturbulence, i.e. enhanced fluctuations of plasma density, electric and magnetic fields, is of great interest in astrophysical plasmas, but occurs on spatial scales far too small to resolve by remote sensing, e.g., at ~ 1-100 cm in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gelu M. Nita , Dale E. Gary , Gregory D. Fleishman

It has long been known that the energy in velocity and magnetic field fluctuations in the solar wind is not in equipartition. In this paper, we present an analysis of 5 years of Wind data at 1 AU to investigate the reason for this. The…

Space Physics · Physics 2013-06-10 C. H. K. Chen , S. D. Bale , C. S. Salem , B. A. Maruca

The degree of linear polarization has recently been found to show wide random variations over the solar disk. These variations are presumably at least partly due to fluctuations in the flux density of turbulent photospheric magnetic fields…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Petrovay

This work focus on the first results on the identification and characterization of periodic plasma density fluctuations in the outer corona, observed in STEREO-A COR1 white-light image time series. A 2D reconstruction of the spatial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 D. Telloni , R. Ventura , P. Romano , D. Spadaro , E. Antonucci

At the electron scales the power spectrum of solar-wind magnetic fluctuations can be highly variable and the dissipation mechanisms of the magnetic energy into the various particle species is under debate. In this paper we investigate data…

Direct correlation between temporal structural fluctuations and electron wind force is demonstrated, for the first time, by STM imaging and analysis of atomically-resolved motion on a thin film surface under large applied current (10e5…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Bondarchuk , W. G. Cullen , M. Degawa , Ellen D. Williams

Fluctuations and structure across a wide range of spatial and temporal scales are frequently studied in the solar wind. The properties of the low-frequency fluctuations are of relevance to turbulent energy injection into the plasma and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-06 Jiaming Wang , Francesco Pecora , Rohit Chhiber , Sohom Roy , William H. Matthaeus

A key prediction of turbulence theories is frame-invariance, and in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, axisymmetry of fluctuations with respect to the background magnetic field. Paradoxically the power in fluctuations in the turbulent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-14 A. J. Turner , G. Gogoberidze , S. C. Chapman , B. Hnat , W. -C. Mueller

(Abridged) Wavelet analysis can be used to measure the power spectrum of solar wind fluctuations along a line in any direction with respect to the local mean magnetic field. This technique is applied to study solar wind turbulence in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 J. J. Podesta

The solar wind shows periods of highly Alfv\'enic activity, where velocity fluctuations and magnetic fluctuations are aligned or anti-aligned with each other. It is generally agreed that solar wind plasma velocity and magnetic field…