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We discuss properties of large amplitude magnetic field fluctuations during fast Alfvenic solar wind streams, focussing on the statistics of the rotation angle between consecutive magnetic field vector measurements for different scales in…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-10-17 L. Matteini , D. Stansby , T. S. Horbury , C. H. K. Chen

Understanding the mechanism(s) of the solar wind acceleration is important in astrophysics and geophysics. A promising model of the solar wind acceleration is known as the wave/turbulence-driven (WTD) model, in which Alfv\'en waves feed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-13 Munehito Shoda , Kazumasa Iwai , Daikou Shiota

We analyze offshore wind speeds with a time resolution of one second over a long period of 20 months for different heights above the sea level. Energy spectra extending over more than seven decades give a comprehensive picture of wind…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-20 So-Kumneth Sim , Joachim Peinke , Philipp Maass

We investigate the appearance of a low-frequency 1/f magnetic spectrum in three-dimensional incompressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence using direct numerical simulations and virtual spacecraft sampling. Our goal is to determine how the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-28 Maia Brodiano , Facundo Pugliese , Nahuel Andrés , Pablo Dmitruk

In this work, more than a dozen solar energetic particle (SEP) events are identified where the source region is magnetically well-connected to at least one spacecraft at 1~au. The observed intensity-time profiles, for all available proton…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-11 J. T. Lang , R. D. Strauss , N. E. Engelbrecht , J. P. van den Berg , N. Dresing , D. Ruffolo , R. Bandyopadhyay

Aeolian transport of sand and dust is driven by turbulent winds that fluctuate over a broad range of temporal and spatial scales. However, commonly used aeolian transport models do not explicitly account for such fluctuations, likely…

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

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in the solar wind is observed to show the spectral behavior of classical Kolmogorov fluid turbulence over an inertial subrange and departures from this at short wavelengths, where energy should be…

Space Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. D. Bale , P. J. Kellogg , F. S. Mozer , T. S. Horbury , H. Reme

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

Observations from Parker Solar Probe's first five orbits are used to investigate the helioradial evolution of probability density functions (PDFs) of fluctuations of magnetic field components, between \(\sim 28\) - 200 \(\rs\).…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-09 Rohit Chhiber

Solar coronal mass ejections (CMEs) directed at the Earth often drive large geomagnetic storms. Here we use velocity, magnetic field and proton density data from 152 CMEs that were sampled in-situ at 1 AU by the WIND spacecraft. We Fourier…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-20 Deep Ghuge , Debesh Bhattacharjee , Prasad Subramanian

The time structure of more than 10 years of hourly wind data measured in one site in northern Italy from April 1996 to December 2007 is analysed. The data are recorded by the Sodar Rass system, which measures the speed and the direction of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 Luciano Telesca , Michele Lovallo

We aim at providing a preliminary approach on the dynamics of a spacecraft in orbit about the asteroid (99942) Apophis during its Earth close approach. The physical properties from the polyhedral shape of the target are derived assigning…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-15 S. Aljbaae , D. M. Sanchez , A. F. B. A. Prado , J. Souchay , M. O. Terra , R. B. Negri , L. O. Marchi

The results of observation of short-term variations of high-energy electron flux in the outer radiation belt, obtained in ARINA satellite experiment (2006 - 2016), are presented. Scintillation spectrometer ARINA on board the Resurs-DK1…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-16 S. V. Koldashov , S. Yu. Aleksandrin , N. D. Eremina

The Parker Solar Probe mission provides a unique opportunity to characterize several features of the solar wind at different heliocentric distances. Recent findings have shown a transition in the inertial range spectral and scaling…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Tommaso Alberti , Simone Benella , Giuseppe Consolini , Mirko Stumpo , Roberto Benzi

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

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 experimentally study the aeroelastic instability boundaries and three-dimensional vortex dynamics of pitching swept wings, with the sweep angle ranging from 0 to 25 degrees. The structural dynamics of the wings are simulated using a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-14 Yuanhang Zhu , Kenneth Breuer

The power spectrum of magnetic-field fluctuations in the fast solar wind ($V_{\rm SW}> 500 \mbox{ km} \mbox{ s}^{-1}$) at magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) scales is characterized by two different power laws on either side of a break frequency…

We use the plasma density based on measurements of the probe-to-spacecraft potential in combination with magnetic field measurements by MAG to study fields and density fluctuations in the solar wind observed by Solar Orbiter during the…