Curlometer technique and applications

MW Dunlop, XC Dong, TY Wang… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We review the range of applications and use of the curlometer, initially developed to analyze
Cluster multi‐spacecraft magnetic field data; but more recently adapted to other arrays of …

Energy conversion and dissipation at dipolarization fronts: A statistical overview

ZH Zhong, XH Deng, M Zhou, WQ Ma… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Dipolarization fronts (DFs) are important for energy conversion, particle acceleration, and
flux transport in the magnetotail. The partition of energy conversion between ions and …

Pressure–strain interaction as the energy dissipation estimate in collisionless plasma

Y Yang, WH Matthaeus, S Roy… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The dissipative mechanism in weakly collisional plasma is a topic that pervades decades of
studies without a consensus solution. We compare several energy dissipation estimates …

Quantifying energy conversion in higher-order phase space density moments in plasmas

PA Cassak, MH Barbhuiya, H Liang, MR Argall - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Weakly collisional and collisionless plasmas are typically far from local thermodynamic
equilibrium (LTE), and understanding energy conversion in such systems is a forefront …

Pathways to dissipation in weakly collisional plasmas

WH Matthaeus, Y Yang, M Wan… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Observed turbulence in space and astrophysics is expected to involve cascade and
subsequent dissipation and heating. Contrary to standard collisional fluid turbulence, the …

Dissipation measures in weakly collisional plasmas

O Pezzi, H Liang, JL Juno, PA Cassak… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The physical foundations of the dissipation of energy and the associated heating in weakly
collisional plasmas are poorly understood. Here, we compare and contrast several …

Turbulent energy transfer and proton–electron heating in collisionless plasmas

S Roy, R Bandyopadhyay, Y Yang… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Despite decades of study of high-temperature weakly collisional plasmas, a complete
understanding of how energy is transferred between particles and fields in turbulent …

Turbulence-driven ion beams in the magnetospheric Kelvin-Helmholtz instability

L Sorriso-Valvo, F Catapano, A Retinò, O Le Contel… - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
The description of the local turbulent energy transfer and the high-resolution ion distributions
measured by the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission together provide a formidable tool to …

Higher‐order turbulence statistics in the Earth's magnetosheath and the solar wind using Magnetospheric Multiscale observations

R Chhiber, A Chasapis… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
High‐resolution multispacecraft magnetic field measurements from the Magnetospheric
Multiscale mission's flux‐gate magnetometer are employed to examine statistical properties …

Spectra of diffusion, dispersion, and dissipation for kinetic Alfvénic and compressive turbulence: Comparison between kinetic theory and measurements from MMS

J He, X Zhu, D Verscharen, D Duan… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We analyze measurements from Magnetospheric Multiscale mission to provide the spectra
related with diffusion, dispersion, and dissipation, all of which are compared with predictions …