Solar wind turbulence and the role of ion instabilities

O Alexandrova, CHK Chen, L Sorriso-Valvo… - Space Science …, 2013 - Springer
Solar wind is probably the best laboratory to study turbulence in astrophysical plasmas. In
addition to the presence of magnetic field, the differences with neutral fluid isotropic …

A review of the 0.1 reconnection rate problem

PA Cassak, YH Liu, MA Shay - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2017 - cambridge.org
A long-standing problem in magnetic reconnection is to explain why it tends to proceed at or
below a normalized rate of 0.1. This article gives a review of observational and numerical …

The link between shocks, turbulence, and magnetic reconnection in collisionless plasmas

H Karimabadi, V Roytershteyn, HX Vu… - Physics of …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Global hybrid (electron fluid, kinetic ions) and fully kinetic simulations of the magnetosphere
have been used to show surprising interconnection between shocks, turbulence, and …

Magnetic reconnection in the space sciences: Past, present, and future

M Hesse, PA Cassak - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetic reconnection converts, often explosively, stored magnetic energy to particle
energy in space and in the laboratory. Through processes operating on length scales that …

Particle acceleration via reconnection processes in the supersonic solar wind

GP Zank, JA Le Roux, GM Webb, A Dosch… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
An emerging paradigm for the dissipation of magnetic turbulence in the supersonic solar
wind is via localized small-scale reconnection processes, essentially between quasi-2D …

MHD turbulence: a biased review

AA Schekochihin - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2022 - cambridge.org
This review of scaling theories of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence aims to put the
developments of the last few years in the context of the canonical time line (from Kolmogorov …

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 …

Statistical analysis of current sheets in three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

V Zhdankin, DA Uzdensky, JC Perez… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We develop a framework for studying the statistical properties of current sheets in numerical
simulations of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence with a strong guide field, as …

High-energy radiation and ion acceleration in three-dimensional relativistic magnetic reconnection with strong synchrotron cooling

A Chernoglazov, H Hakobyan… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the results of 3D particle-in-cell simulations that explore relativistic magnetic
reconnection in pair plasma with strong synchrotron cooling and a small mass fraction of …

Current sheets and collisionless damping in kinetic plasma turbulence

JM TenBarge, GG Howes - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first study of the formation and dissipation of current sheets at electron scales
in a wave-driven, weakly collisional, three-dimensional kinetic turbulence simulation. We …