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We study scaling relations of compressible isothermal strongly magnetized turbulence using numerical simulations with resolution 512$^3$. We find a good correspondence of our results with the Fleck (1996) model of compressible hydrodynamic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Grzegorz Kowal , A. Lazarian

The Very Local Interstellar Medium (VLISM) contains clouds which consist of partially-ionized plasma. These clouds can be effectively diagnosed via high resolution optical and ultraviolet spectroscopy of the absorption lines they form in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Steven R. Spangler , Allison H. Savage , Seth Redfield

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

The nature of turbulence at sub-electron scales has remained an open question, central to understanding how electrons are heated in the solar wind. This is primarily because spacecraft measurements have been limited to magnetic field…

Space Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Shiladittya Mondal , Christopher H. K. Chen , Davide Manzini

We have investigated how the degree of imbalance in solar wind turbulence is modified by large-scale velocity shears in the solar wind plasma. The balance between counterpropagating Alfv\'enic fluctuations, which interact nonlinearly to…

Space Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Juska E. Soljento , Simon W. Good , Adnane Osmane , Emilia K. J. Kilpua

A statistical relationship between magnetic reconnection, current sheets and intermittent turbulence in the solar wind is reported for the first time using in-situ measurements from the Wind spacecraft at 1 AU. We identify intermittency as…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 K. T. Osman , W. H. Matthaeus , J. T. Gosling , A. Greco , S. Servidio , B. Hnat , S. C. Chapman , T. D. Phan

Theoretical approaches to low-frequency magnetized turbulence in collisionless and weakly collisional astrophysical plasmas are reviewed. The proper starting point for an analytical description of these plasmas is kinetic theory, not fluid…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. A. Schekochihin , S. C. Cowley , W. Dorland

We present high resolution numerical simulations of compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. We concentrate on studies of spectra and anisotropy of velocity and density. We describe a technique of separating different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Jungyeon Cho , A. Lazarian

We present a new scale decomposition method to investigate turbulence in wavenumber-frequency space. Using 3D magnetohydrodynamic turbulence simulations, we show that magnetic fluctuations with time scales longer than the nonlinear time…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-02 Giuseppe Arrò , Hui Li , William H. Matthaeus

Taylors hypothesis is the backbone to convert observations done over time to spatial information of the flow while carrying out turbulence measurements on a micrometeorological tower. To address its validity over a highly heterogeneous…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Subharthi Chowdhuri , Ivan Mammarella , Olli Peltola

One proposed mechanism for heating the solar wind, from close to the sun to beyond 10 AU, invokes low-frequency, oblique, Alfven-wave turbulence. Because small-scale oblique Alfven waves (kinetic Alfven waves) are compressive, the measured…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Benjamin D. G. Chandran , Eliot Quataert , Gregory G. Howes , Qian Xia , Peera Pongkitiwanichakul

Studies of solar wind turbulence traditionally employ high-resolution magnetic field data, but high-resolution measurements of ion and electron moments have been possible only recently. We report the first turbulence studies of ion and…

Recent research has shown that distinct physical regions in the Venusian induced magnetosphere are recognizable from the variations of strength of the magnetic field and its wave/fluctuation activity. In this paper the statistical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-23 Z. Vörös , T. L. Zhang , M. P. Leubner , M. Volwerk , M. Delva , W. Baumjohann

We study the evolution of turbulence in the solar wind by solving numerically the full 3D magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) equations embedded in a radial mean wind. The corresponding equations (expanding box model or EBM) have been considered…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Yue Dong , Andrea Verdini , Roland Grappin

The interstellar turbulence is magnetized and thus anisotropic. The anisotropy of turbulent magnetic fields and velocities is imprinted in the related observables, rotation measures (RMs), and velocity centroids (VCs). This anisotropy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-07 Siyao Xu , Yue Hu

An evolving turbulent flow such as the solar wind can be meaningfully characterized by its "turbulence age" -- an estimate of the number of nonlinear times that have elapsed during a plasma parcel's propagation from the Sun to a given point…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-30 Rohit Chhiber , Yanwen Wang , Arcadi V. Usmanov , William H. Matthaeus

We calculate the gravitational wave spectrum produced by magneto-hydrodynamic turbulence in a first order phase transitions. We focus in particular on the role of decorrelation of incompressible (solenoidal) homogeneous isotropic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-22 Peter Niksa , Martin Schlederer , Günter Sigl

Plasma velocity and magnetic field measurements from the Voyager 2 mission are used to study solar wind turbulence in the slow solar wind at two different heliocentric distances, 5 and 29 astronomical units, sufficiently far apart to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 M. Iovieno , L. Gallana , F. Fraternale , J. D. Richardson , M. Opher , D. Tordella

This two-part review summarizes interstellar turbulence and its implications. The first part begins with diagnostics and energy sources. Turbulence theory is considered in detail, including the basic fluid equations, solenoidal and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Bruce G. Elmegreen , John Scalo

We make use of the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) data to explore the nature of solar wind turbulence focusing on the Alfv\'enic character and power spectra of the fluctuations and their dependence on distance and context (i.e. large scale solar…

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