Recent progress in astrophysical plasma turbulence from solar wind observations

CHK Chen - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2016 - cambridge.org
This paper summarises some of the recent progress that has been made in understanding
astrophysical plasma turbulence in the solar wind, from in situ spacecraft observations. At …

Kinetic plasma turbulence: recent insights and open questions from 3D3V simulations

SS Cerri, D Grošelj, L Franci - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Turbulence and kinetic processes in magnetized space plasmas have been extensively
investigated over the past decades via in-situ spacecraft measurements, theoretical models …

Particle acceleration in relativistic plasma turbulence

L Comisso, L Sironi - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
Due to its ubiquitous presence, turbulence is often invoked to explain the origin of
nonthermal particles in astrophysical sources of high-energy emission. With particle-in-cell …

Evidence for electron Landau damping in space plasma turbulence

CHK Chen, KG Klein, GG Howes - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
How turbulent energy is dissipated in weakly collisional space and astrophysical plasmas is
a major open question. Here, we present the application of a field-particle correlation …

Magnetic reconnection as a driver for a sub-ion-scale cascade in plasma turbulence

L Franci, SS Cerri, F Califano, S Landi… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
A new path for the generation of a sub-ion-scale cascade in collisionless space and
astrophysical plasma turbulence, triggered by magnetic reconnection, is uncovered by …

Reconnection and small-scale fields in 2D-3V hybrid-kinetic driven turbulence simulations

SS Cerri, F Califano - New Journal of Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The understanding of the fundamental properties of turbulence in collisionless plasmas,
such as the solar wind, is a frontier problem in plasma physics. In particular, the occurrence …

Solar wind turbulent cascade from MHD to sub-ion scales: large-size 3D hybrid particle-in-cell simulations

L Franci, S Landi, A Verdini, L Matteini… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Properties of the turbulent cascade from fluid to kinetic scales in collisionless
plasmas are investigated by means of large-size 3D hybrid (fluid electrons, kinetic protons) …

Critical balance and the physics of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

S Oughton, WH Matthaeus - The Astrophysical Journal, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
A discussion of the advantages and limitations of the concept of critical balance (CB), as
employed in turbulence phenomenologies, is presented. The incompressible …

Fully kinetic simulation of 3D kinetic Alfvén turbulence

D Grošelj, A Mallet, NF Loureiro, F Jenko - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
We present results from a three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation of plasma turbulence,
resembling the plasma conditions found at kinetic scales of the solar wind. The spectral …

Observations of turbulence in a Kelvin‐Helmholtz event on 8 September 2015 by the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission

JE Stawarz, S Eriksson, FD Wilder… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Spatial and high‐time‐resolution properties of the velocities, magnetic field, and 3‐D electric
field within plasma turbulence are examined observationally using data from the …