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Using numerical simulations we examine the velocity fluctuations of a probe particle driven with constant force through a two-dimensional disordered assembly of disks which has a well-defined jamming point J at a density of \phi_J=0.843. As…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 C. J. Olson Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt

We present the first survey of electric field data using the ARTEMIS spacecraft in the solar wind to study inertial range turbulence. It was found that the average perpendicular spectral index of the electric field depends on the frame of…

Space Physics · Physics 2012-08-20 C. H. K. Chen , S. D. Bale , C. Salem , F. S. Mozer

The ESA's Mars Express solar corona experiments were performed at two solar conjunctions in the years 2015 and 2017 by a number of radio telescopes in the European VLBI Network. This paper presents the methods to measure the frequency and…

Solar wind streams, acting as background, govern the propagation of space weather drivers in the heliosphere, which induce geomagnetic storm activities. Therefore, predictions of the solar wind parameters are the core of space weather…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Prateek Mayank , Bhargav Vaidya , D. Chakrabarty

We use the Cluster EFW experiment to measure the cross-shock electric field at ten low $\beta$, quasi-perpendicular supercritical bow shock crossings on March 31, 2001. The electric field data are Lorentz-tranformed to a Normal Incidence…

Space Physics · Physics 2008-09-16 S. D. Bale , F. S. Mozer , V. V. Krasnoselskikh

Connecting the solar wind observed throughout the heliosphere to its origins in the solar corona is one of the central aims of heliophysics. The variability in the magnetic field, bulk plasma, and heavy ion composition properties of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-26 B. J. Lynch , N. M. Viall , A. K. Higginson , L. Zhao , S. T. Lepri , X. Sun

Context: Parameters of solar energetic particle (SEP) event profiles such as the onset time and peak time have been researched extensively to obtain information on acceleration and transport of SEPs. Corotation of particle-filled magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-21 R. A. Hyndman , S. Dalla , T. Laitinen , A. Hutchinson , C. M. S. Cohen , R. F. Wimmer-Schweingruber

In the solar wind, magnetic field power spectra usually show several power-laws. In this paper, magnetic field data from the Cluster mission during an undisturbed interval of slow solar wind is analyzed at 0.28Hz, near the spectral break…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-22 Owen Wyn Roberts , Xing Li , Olga Alexandrova , Bo Li

In this paper, we extend timing analysis of Baykal et al. (2010) of \src using RXTE-PCA observations between MJD 53724 and MJD 55113 together with a Chandra-ACIS observation on MJD 54897 with a 20 ks exposure. We also present X-ray spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 B. Icdem , S. C. Inam , A. Baykal

We present an analysis of small-scale, periodic, solar-wind density enhancements (length-scales as small as \approx 1000 Mm) observed in images from the Heliospheric Imager (HI) aboard STEREO A. We discuss their possible relationship to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-30 Nicholeen M. Viall , Harlan E. Spence , Angelos Vourlidas , Russell Howard

This Letter investigates the spectral characteristics of the interplanetary magnetic field fluctuations at proton scales during several time intervals chosen along the speed profile of a fast stream. The character of the fluctuations within…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 R. Bruno , D. Telloni

We investigate Venus Express (VEX) observations of magnetic field fluctuations performed systematically in the solar wind at 0.72 Astronomical Units (AU), between 2007 and 2009, during the deep minimum of the solar cycle 24. The Power…

Using data from orbits one to eleven of the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) mission, the magnetic field spectral index was measured across a range of heliocentric distances. The previously observed transition between a value of $-5/3$ far from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-11 J. R. McIntyre , C. H. K. Chen , A. Larosa

In this paper we investigate spectral and phase coherence properties of magnetic fluctuations in the vicinity of the spectral transition from large, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) to sub-ion scales using in-situ measurements of the Wind…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 Sonny Lion , Olga Alexandrova , Arnaud Zaslavsky

The trajectories of Solar Energetic Particles (SEPs) in an Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF) exhibiting large-scale fluctuations due to footpoint motions originating in the photosphere, are simulated using a full-orbit test-particle code.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 James Kelly , Silvia Dalla , Timo Laitinen

Context. Important information on the evolution of the jet can be obtained by comparing the physical state of the plasma at its propagation through the broad-line region (where the jet is most likely formed) into the intergalactic medium,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-06 D. Zargaryan , S. Gasparyan , V. Baghmanyan , N. Sahakyan

High-speed solar wind streams emanating from coronal holes are frequently impinging on the Earth's magnetosphere causing recurrent, medium-level geomagnetic storm activity. Modeling high-speed solar wind streams is thus an essential element…

Planetary-mass objects and brown dwarfs at the transition ($\rm{T}_{eff}\sim1300$\,K) from relatively red L dwarfs to bluer mid-T dwarfs show enhanced spectrophotometric variability. Multi-epoch observations support atmospheric…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-21 Michael K. Plummer , Ji Wang , Étienne Artigau , René Doyon , Genaro Suárez

We study the zero-temperature spin fluctuations of a two-dimensional itinerant-electron system with an incommensurate magnetic ground state described by a single-band Hubbard Hamiltonian. We introduce the (broken-symmetry) magnetic phase at…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Arrigoni , G. C. Strinati

Kinetic plasma theory is used to generate synthetic spacecraft data to analyze and interpret the compressible fluctuations in the inertial range of solar wind turbulence. The kinetic counterparts of the three familiar linear MHD wave…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 K. G. Klein , G. G. Howes , J. M. TenBarge , S. D. Bale , C. H. K. Chen , C. S. Salem