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Near-surface wind fields on Mars are profoundly modulated by complex topography, yet fine-scale wind field characteristics remain poorly resolved for key geomorphological units such as deltas, valleys, and impact craters, due to the spatial…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-04-03 Yuhang Liu , Lei Zhang , Zhihao Shen , Peng Cao , Zhao Jiang , Jing Li , Jinhai Zhang

Strong, globally-organized magnetic fields are found for a small fraction of O, B, and A stars. At the same time, many theoretical and indirect observational studies suggested ubiquitous presence of weak localized magnetic fields at the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 O. Kochukhov , N. Sudnik

Our recent search for the presence of a magnetic field in the bright early A-type supergiant HD92207 using FORS2 in spectropolarimetric mode revealed the presence of a longitudinal magnetic field of the order of a few hundred Gauss.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 S. Hubrig , A. F. Kholtygin , M. Schöller , R. I. Anderson , S. Saesen , J. F. Gonzalez , I. Ilyin , M. Briquet

Whistler waves are intermittently present in the solar wind, while their origin and effects are not entirely understood. We present a statistical analysis of magnetic field fluctuations in the whistler frequency range (above 16 Hz) based on…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Yuguang Tong , Ivan Y. Vasko , Anton V. Artemyev , Stuart D. Bale , Forrest S. Mozer

Bright single pulses of many radio pulsars show rapid intensity fluctuations (called microstructure) when observed with time resolutions of tens of microseconds. Here, we report an analysis of Arecibo 59.5 $\mu$sec-resolution polarimetric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-25 Dipanjan Mitra , Mihir Arjunwadkar , Joanna M. Rankin

One "strong" magnetic cloud (MC) with the magnetic field magnitude reaching $\sim$ 40 nT at 1 au during 2012 June 16-17 is examined in association with a pre-existing magnetic flux rope (MFR) identified on the Sun. The MC is characterized…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 Qiang Hu , Chunming Zhu , Wen He , Jiong Qiu , Lan K. Jian , Avijeet Prasad

In a magnetized, collisionless plasma, the magnetic moment of the constituent particles is an adiabatic invariant. An increase in the magnetic-field strength in such a plasma thus leads to an increase in the thermal pressure perpendicular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-27 Andrew Alt , Matthew W. Kunz

The temporal evolution of the magnetic field associated with electron thermal Weibel instability in optical-field ionized plasmas is measured using ultrashort (1.8 ps), relativistic (45 MeV) electron bunches from a linear accelerator. The…

Waves play a crucial role in diagnosing the plasma properties of various structures in the solar corona and coronal heating. Slow magneto-acoustic (MA) waves are one of the important magnetohydrodynamic waves. In past decades, numerous slow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jiajia Liu , Zhenjun Zhou , Yuming Wang , Rui Liu , Bin Wang , Chijian Liao , Chenglong Shen , Huinan Zheng , Bin Miao , Zhenpeng Su , S. Wang

A comprehensive study of Nitric oxide (NO) chemistry in the Martian upper atmosphere is restricted due to the lack of requisite measurements. NO is an abundant form of odd nitrogen species in the Martian lower atmosphere and its density…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 Susarla Raghuram , Anil Bhardwaj , Maneesha Dharwan

We propose a theory for the new effects recently observed by Willett et al [1] in the magnetoresistance of a weakly modulated two dimensional electron gas near filling factor 1/2. Minima in transverse magnetoresistance and maxima in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nataliya A. Zimbovskaya , Joseph L. Birman

We present a concept for using a polarization sensitive multispectral lidar to map the seasonal distribution and exchange of volatiles among the reservoirs of the Martian surface and atmosphere. The LIDAR instrument will be a…

On Mars it is possible that after the recession of the seasonal polar ice cap, small icy patches left behind in shady places due to the low thermal conductivity of the Martian surface and atmosphere, are met by direct sunlight during the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-08 Mira A. Gergácz , Ákos Kereszturi

Recent polarimetric mm-observations of the galactic centre by Wielgus et al. (2022a) showed sinusoidal loops in the Q-U plane with a duration of one hour. The loops coincide with a quasi-simultaneous X-ray flare. A promising mechanism to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-01 Mahdi Najafi-Ziyazi , Jordy Davelaar , Yosuke Mizuno , Oliver Porth

The nonlinear dynamics of circularly polarized dispersive Alfv{\'e}n wave (AW) envelopes coupled to the driven ion sound waves of plasma slow response is studied in a uniform magnetoplasma. By restricting the wave dynamics to a few number…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-03-07 S. Roy , A. Roy , A. P. Misra

The Martian atmosphere experiences large diurnal variations due to the ~24.6 h planetary rotation and its low heat capacity. Understanding such variations on a planetary scale is limited due to the lack of observations, which are greatly…

We report on the detection of quasi-periodic micro-structure in three millisecond pulsars (MSPs), PSRs J1022+1001, J2145-0750 and J1744-1134, using high time resolution data acquired with the Large European Array for Pulsars at a radio…

We report an unusual set of observations of waves in a large prominence pillar which consist of pulses propagating perpendicular to the prominence magnetic field. We observe a huge quiescent prominence with the Solar Dynamics Observatory…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 B. Schmieder , T. A. Kucera , K. Knizhnik , M. Luna , A. Lopez-Ariste , D. Toot

The time variations of spectral properties of dark martian surface features are investigated using the OMEGA near-IR dataset. The analyzed period covers two Mars years, spanning from early 2004 to early 2008 (includes the 2007 global dust…

An experimental procedure for studying soliton gases in shallow water is devised. Nonlinear waves propagate at constant depth in a 34\,m-long wave flume. At one end of the flume, the waves are generated by a piston-type wave-maker. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-09 Ivan Redor , Eric Barthélemy , Nicolas Mordant , Hervé Michallet