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Manzini D, Sahraoui F, Califano F. Cascade-Dissipation Balance in Astrophysical Plasmas: Insights from the Terrestrial Magnetosheath. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2024; 132:235201. [PMID: 38905675 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.132.235201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2023] [Revised: 03/28/2024] [Accepted: 05/02/2024] [Indexed: 06/23/2024]
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The differential heating of electrons and ions by turbulence in weakly collisional magnetized plasmas and the scales at which such energy dissipation is most effective are still debated. Using a large data sample measured in Earth's magnetosheath by the magnetospheric multiscale mission and the coarse-grained energy equations derived from the Vlasov-Maxwell system, we find evidence of a balance over two decades in scales between the energy cascade and dissipation rates. The decline of the cascade rate at kinetic scales (in contrast with a constant one in the inertial range), is balanced by an increasing ion and electron heating rates, estimated via the pressure strain. Ion scales are found to contribute most effectively to ion heating, while electron heating originates from both ion and electron scales. These results can potentially impact the current understanding of particle heating in turbulent magnetized plasmas as well as their theoretical and numerical modeling.
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- D Manzini
- Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP), CNRS, École Polytechnique, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris-Saclay, Observatoire de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France
- Dipartimento di Fisica E. Fermi, University of Pisa, Italy
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- Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP), CNRS, École Polytechnique, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris-Saclay, Observatoire de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica E. Fermi, University of Pisa, Italy
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Richard L, Sorriso-Valvo L, Yordanova E, Graham DB, Khotyaintsev YV. Turbulence in Magnetic Reconnection Jets from Injection to Sub-Ion Scales. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2024; 132:105201. [PMID: 38518330 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.132.105201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2023] [Revised: 10/02/2023] [Accepted: 02/05/2024] [Indexed: 03/24/2024]
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We investigate turbulence in magnetic reconnection jets in the Earth's magnetotail using data from the Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft. We show that signatures of a limited inertial range are observed in many reconnection jets. The observed turbulence develops on the timescale of a few ion gyroperiods, resulting in intermittent multifractal energy cascade from the characteristic scale of the jet down to the ion scales. We show that at sub-ion scales, the fluctuations are close to monofractal and predominantly kinetic Alfvén waves. The observed energy transfer rate across the inertial range is ∼10^{8} J kg^{-1} s^{-1}, which is the largest reported for space plasmas so far.
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- Louis Richard
- Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala 751 21, Sweden and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Space and Plasma Physics, Uppsala University, Uppsala 751 20, Sweden
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- CNR/ISTP-Istituto per la Scienza e la Tecnologia dei Plasmi, 70126 Bari, Italy; Space and Plasma Physics, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm 114 28, Sweden; and Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala 751 21, Sweden
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Pecora F, Yang Y, Matthaeus WH, Chasapis A, Klein KG, Stevens M, Servidio S, Greco A, Gershman DJ, Giles BL, Burch JL. Three-Dimensional Energy Transfer in Space Plasma Turbulence from Multipoint Measurement. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023; 131:225201. [PMID: 38101349 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.225201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2023] [Revised: 09/20/2023] [Accepted: 10/26/2023] [Indexed: 12/17/2023]
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A novel multispacecraft technique applied to Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission data in the Earth's magnetosheath enables evaluation of the energy cascade rate from the full Yaglom's equation. The method differs from existing approaches in that it (i) is inherently three-dimensional, (ii) provides a statistically significant number of estimates from a single data stream, and (iii) allows visualization of energy flux in turbulent plasmas. This new "lag polyhedral derivative ensemble" technique exploits ensembles of tetrahedra in lag space and established curlometerlike algorithms.
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- Francesco Pecora
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
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- Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
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- Center for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria, I-87036 Cosenza, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria, I-87036 Cosenza, Italy
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas 78238, USA
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Manzini D, Sahraoui F, Califano F, Ferrand R. Local energy transfer and dissipation in incompressible Hall magnetohydrodynamic turbulence: The coarse-graining approach. Phys Rev E 2022; 106:035202. [PMID: 36266803 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.106.035202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2022] [Accepted: 07/27/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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We derive the coarse-graining (CG) equations of incompressible Hall magnetohydrodynamic (HMHD) turbulence to investigate the local (in space) energy transfer rate as a function of the filtering scale ℓ. First, the CG equations are space averaged to obtain the analytical expression of the mean cascade rate. Its application to three-dimensional simulations of (weakly compressible) HMHD shows a cascade rate consistent with the value of the mean dissipation rate in the simulations and with the classical estimates based on the "third-order" law. Furthermore, we developed an anisotropic version of CG that allows us to study the magnitude of the cascade rate along different directions with respect to the mean magnetic field. Its implementation on the numerical data with moderate background magnetic field shows a weaker cascade along the magnetic field than in the perpendicular plane, while an isotropic cascade is recovered in the absence of a background field. The strength of the CG approach is further revealed when considering the local-in-space energy transfer, which is shown theoretically and numerically to match at a given position x, when locally averaged over a neighboring region, the (quasi-)local dissipation. Prospects of exploiting this model to investigate local dissipation in spacecraft data are discussed.
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- D Manzini
- Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP), CNRS, École Polytechnique, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris-Saclay, Observatoire de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France
- Dipartimento di Fisica E. Fermi, University of Pisa, 56127 Pisa, Italy
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- Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP), CNRS, École Polytechnique, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris-Saclay, Observatoire de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica E. Fermi, University of Pisa, 56127 Pisa, Italy
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- Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP), CNRS, École Polytechnique, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris-Saclay, Observatoire de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France
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Simon P, Sahraoui F. Exact law for compressible pressure-anisotropic magnetohydrodynamic turbulence: Toward linking energy cascade and instabilities. Phys Rev E 2022; 105:055111. [PMID: 35706285 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.105.055111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2021] [Accepted: 05/04/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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We derive an exact law for compressible pressure-anisotropic magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. For a gyrotropic pressure tensor, we study the double-adiabatic case and show the presence of new flux and source terms in the exact law, reminiscent of the plasma instability conditions due to pressure anisotropy. The Hall term is shown to bring ion-scale corrections to the exact law without affecting explicitly the pressure terms. In the pressure isotropy limit we recover all known results obtained for isothermal and polytropic closures. The incompressible limit of the gyrotropic system leads to a generalization of the Politano and Pouquet's law where a new incompressible source term is revealed and reflects exchanges of the magnetic and kinetic energies with the no-longer-conserved internal energy. We highlight the possibilities offered by the new laws to investigate potential links between turbulence cascade and instabilities widely observed in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas.
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- P Simon
- Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP), CNRS, Observatoire de Paris, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris-Saclay, École polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91128 Palaiseau, France
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- Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP), CNRS, Observatoire de Paris, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris-Saclay, École polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91128 Palaiseau, France
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Adhikari S, Parashar TN, Shay MA, Matthaeus WH, Pyakurel PS, Fordin S, Stawarz JE, Eastwood JP. Energy transfer in reconnection and turbulence. Phys Rev E 2022; 104:065206. [PMID: 35030942 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.104.065206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2021] [Accepted: 12/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Reconnection and turbulence are two of the most commonly observed dynamical processes in plasmas, but their relationship is still not fully understood. Using 2.5D kinetic particle-in-cell simulations of both strong turbulence and reconnection, we compare the cross-scale transfer of energy in the two systems by analyzing the generalization of the von Kármán Howarth equations for Hall magnetohydrodynamics, a formulation that subsumes the third-order law for steady energy transfer rates. Even though the large scale features are quite different, the finding is that the decomposition of the energy transfer is structurally very similar in the two cases. In the reconnection case, the time evolution of the energy transfer also exhibits a correlation with the reconnection rate. These results provide explicit evidence that reconnection dynamics fundamentally involves turbulence-like energy transfer.
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- S Adhikari
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA.,School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6012, New Zealand
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA.,Bartol Research Institute, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA.,Bartol Research Institute, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- Department of Physics, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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David V, Galtier S. Proof of the zeroth law of turbulence in one-dimensional compressible magnetohydrodynamics and shock heating. Phys Rev E 2021; 103:063217. [PMID: 34271658 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.103.063217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2020] [Accepted: 06/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The zeroth law is one of the oldest conjectures in turbulence that is still unproven. Here, we consider weak solutions of one-dimensional compressible magnetohydrodynamics and demonstrate that the lack of smoothness of the fields introduces a dissipative term, named inertial dissipation, into the expression of energy conservation that is neither viscous nor resistive in nature. We propose exact solutions assuming that the kinematic viscosity and the magnetic diffusivity are equal, and we demonstrate that the associated inertial dissipation is positive and equal on average to the mean viscous dissipation rate in the limit of small viscosity, proving the conjecture of the zeroth law of turbulence and the existence of an anomalous dissipation. As an illustration, we evaluate the shock heating produced by discontinuities detected by Voyager in the solar wind around 5 AU. We deduce a heating rate of ∼10^{-18}Jm^{-3}s^{-1}, which is significantly higher than the value obtained from the turbulent fluctuations. This suggests that collisionless shocks can be a dominant source of heating in the outer solar wind.
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- Vincent David
- Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, École Polytechnique, F-91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France.,Université Paris-Saclay, IPP, CNRS, Observatoire Paris-Meudon, Meudon, France
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- Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, École Polytechnique, F-91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France.,Université Paris-Saclay, IPP, CNRS, Observatoire Paris-Meudon, Meudon, France.,Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France
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Verscharen D, Wicks RT, Alexandrova O, Bruno R, Burgess D, Chen CHK, D’Amicis R, De Keyser J, de Wit TD, Franci L, He J, Henri P, Kasahara S, Khotyaintsev Y, Klein KG, Lavraud B, Maruca BA, Maksimovic M, Plaschke F, Poedts S, Reynolds CS, Roberts O, Sahraoui F, Saito S, Salem CS, Saur J, Servidio S, Stawarz JE, Štverák Š, Told D. A Case for Electron-Astrophysics. EXPERIMENTAL ASTRONOMY 2021; 54:473-519. [PMID: 36915623 PMCID: PMC9998602 DOI: 10.1007/s10686-021-09761-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2020] [Accepted: 05/07/2021] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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The smallest characteristic scales, at which electron dynamics determines the plasma behaviour, are the next frontier in space and astrophysical plasma research. The analysis of astrophysical processes at these scales lies at the heart of the research theme of electron-astrophysics. Electron scales are the ultimate bottleneck for dissipation of plasma turbulence, which is a fundamental process not understood in the electron-kinetic regime. In addition, plasma electrons often play an important role for the spatial transfer of thermal energy due to the high heat flux associated with their velocity distribution. The regulation of this electron heat flux is likewise not understood. By focussing on these and other fundamental electron processes, the research theme of electron-astrophysics links outstanding science questions of great importance to the fields of space physics, astrophysics, and laboratory plasma physics. In this White Paper, submitted to ESA in response to the Voyage 2050 call, we review a selection of these outstanding questions, discuss their importance, and present a roadmap for answering them through novel space-mission concepts.
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- Daniel Verscharen
- Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, Dorking, UK
- Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH USA
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- Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, Dorking, UK
- Department of Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
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- Laboratoire d’Études Spatiales et d’Instrumentation en Astrophysique, Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, Paris, France
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- Instituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, INAF, Rome, Italy
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium
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- Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l’Environment et de l’Espace, CNRS, University of Orléans and CNES, Orléans, France
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, INAF, Firenze, Italy
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- School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l’Environment et de l’Espace, CNRS, University of Orléans and CNES, Orléans, France
- CNRS, UCA, OCA, Lagrange, Nice, France
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- Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and Department of Planetary Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ USA
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- Laboratoire d’astrophysique de Bordeaux, Université de Bordeaux, CNRS, Pessac, France
- Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, CNRS, UPS, CNES, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, DE USA
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- Laboratoire d’Études Spatiales et d’Instrumentation en Astrophysique, Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, Paris, France
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- Centre for Mathematical Plasma Astrophysics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Institute of Physics, University of Maria Curie-Skłodowska, Lublin, Poland
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria
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- Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS, École Polytechnique, Sorbonne Université, Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, Paris Saclay, Palaiseau, France
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- Space Environment Laboratory, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo, Japan
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA USA
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- Institut für Geophysik und Meteorologie, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Università della Calabria, Rende, Italy
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- Astronomical Institute and Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching, Germany
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Compressible Turbulence in the Interstellar Medium: New Insights from a High-resolution Supersonic Turbulence Simulation. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2020. [DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abb76e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Li JH, Yang F, Zhou XZ, Zong QG, Artemyev AV, Rankin R, Shi Q, Yao S, Liu H, He J, Pu Z, Xiao C, Liu J, Pollock C, Le G, Burch JL. Self-consistent kinetic model of nested electron- and ion-scale magnetic cavities in space plasmas. Nat Commun 2020; 11:5616. [PMID: 33154395 PMCID: PMC7644639 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19442-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2020] [Accepted: 10/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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NASA’s Magnetospheric Multi-Scale (MMS) mission is designed to explore the proton- and electron-gyroscale kinetics of plasma turbulence where the bulk of particle acceleration and heating takes place. Understanding the nature of cross-scale structures ubiquitous as magnetic cavities is important to assess the energy partition, cascade and conversion in the plasma universe. Here, we present theoretical insight into magnetic cavities by deriving a self-consistent, kinetic theory of these coherent structures. By taking advantage of the multipoint measurements from the MMS constellation, we demonstrate that our kinetic model can utilize magnetic cavity observations by one MMS spacecraft to predict measurements from a second/third spacecraft. The methodology of “observe and predict” validates the theory we have derived, and confirms that nested magnetic cavities are self-organized plasma structures supported by trapped proton and electron populations in analogous to the classical theta-pinches in laboratory plasmas. Magnetic cavities play important roles in the energy cascade, conversion and dissipation in turbulent plasmas. Here, the authors show a theoretical insight into magnetic cavities by deriving a self-consistent, kinetic theory of these coherent structures.
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- Jing-Huan Li
- School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China
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- School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China
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- School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China.
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- School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China.
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- Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA.,Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 117997, Russia
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- Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G2G7, Canada
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- Institute of Space Sciences, Shandong University, Weihai, 264209, China
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- Institute of Space Sciences, Shandong University, Weihai, 264209, China
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- School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China
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- School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China
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- School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China
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- School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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- National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, 78238, USA
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Bandyopadhyay R, Sorriso-Valvo L, Chasapis A, Hellinger P, Matthaeus WH, Verdini A, Landi S, Franci L, Matteini L, Giles BL, Gershman DJ, Moore TE, Pollock CJ, Russell CT, Strangeway RJ, Torbert RB, Burch JL. In Situ Observation of Hall Magnetohydrodynamic Cascade in Space Plasma. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2020; 124:225101. [PMID: 32567898 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.124.225101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2019] [Revised: 04/07/2020] [Accepted: 05/01/2020] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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We present estimates of the turbulent energy-cascade rate derived from a Hall-magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) third-order law. We compute the contribution from the Hall term and the MHD term to the energy flux. Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) data accumulated in the magnetosheath and the solar wind are compared with previously established simulation results. Consistent with the simulations, we find that at large (MHD) scales, the MMS observations exhibit a clear inertial range dominated by the MHD flux. In the subion range, the cascade continues at a diminished level via the Hall term, and the change becomes more pronounced as the plasma beta increases. Additionally, the MHD contribution to interscale energy transfer remains important at smaller scales than previously thought. Possible reasons are offered for this unanticipated result.
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- Riddhi Bandyopadhyay
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- Departamento de Física, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, 170517 Quito, Ecuador and Istituto per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Plasmi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 87036 Bari, Italy
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- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Astronomical Institute, CAS, Bocni II/1401, CZ-14100 Prague, Czech Republic and Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS, Bocni II/1401, CZ-14100 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA and Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Universitá degli Studi di Firenze, 50125 Firenze, Italy and INAF, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Largo E. Fermi 5, I-50125 Firenze, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Universitá degli Studi di Firenze, 50125 Firenze, Italy and INAF, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Largo E. Fermi 5, I-50125 Firenze, Italy
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom and INAF, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Largo E. Fermi 5, I-50125 Firenze, Italy
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- LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France and INAF, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Largo E. Fermi 5, I-50125 Firenze, Italy
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas 78238-5166, USA
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Banerjee S, Andrés N. Scale-to-scale energy transfer rate in compressible two-fluid plasma turbulence. Phys Rev E 2020; 101:043212. [PMID: 32422726 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.101.043212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2019] [Accepted: 04/01/2020] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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We derive the exact relation for the energy transfer in three-dimensional compressible two-fluid plasma turbulence. In the long-time limit, we obtain an exact law which expresses the scale-to-scale average energy flux rate in terms of two point increments of the fluid variables of each species, electric and magnetic field and current density, and puts a strong constraint on the turbulent dynamics. The incompressible single fluid and two-fluid limits and the compressible single fluid limit are recovered under appropriate assumption. In the single fluid limits, analyses are done with and without neglecting the electron mass thereby making the exact relation suitable for a broader range of application. In the compressible two-fluid regime, the total energy flux rate, unlike the single fluid case, is found to be unaltered by the presence of a background magnetic field. The exact relation provides a way to test whether a range of scales in a plasma is inertial or dissipative and is essential to understand the nonlinear nature of both space and dilute astrophysical plasmas.
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- Supratik Banerjee
- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kalyanpur 208016, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Institute of Astronomy and Space Physics, Ciudad Universitaria, Buenos Aires 1428, Argentina and Physics Department, University of Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, Buenos Aires 1428, Argentina
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Andrés N, Sahraoui F, Galtier S, Hadid LZ, Ferrand R, Huang SY. Energy Cascade Rate Measured in a Collisionless Space Plasma with MMS Data and Compressible Hall Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence Theory. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2019; 123:245101. [PMID: 31922873 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.123.245101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2019] [Revised: 11/12/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The first complete estimation of the compressible energy cascade rate |ϵ_{C}| at magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) and subion scales is obtained in Earth's magnetosheath using Magnetospheric MultiScale spacecraft data and an exact law derived recently for compressible Hall MHD turbulence. A multispacecraft technique is used to compute the velocity and magnetic gradients, and then all the correlation functions involved in the exact relation. It is shown that when the density fluctuations are relatively small, |ϵ_{C}| identifies well with its incompressible analog |ϵ_{I}| at MHD scales but becomes much larger than |ϵ_{I}| at subion scales. For larger density fluctuations, |ϵ_{C}| is larger than |ϵ_{I}| at every scale with a value significantly higher than for smaller density fluctuations. Our study reveals also that for both small and large density fluctuations, the nonflux terms remain always negligible with respect to the flux terms and that the major contribution to |ϵ_{C}| at subion scales comes from the compressible Hall flux.
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- N Andrés
- Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, École Polytechnique, CNRS, Sorbonne University, Observatoire de Paris, Univ. Paris-Sud, F-91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France
- Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio, CONICET-UBA, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, UBA, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, École Polytechnique, CNRS, Sorbonne University, Observatoire de Paris, Univ. Paris-Sud, F-91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France
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- Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, École Polytechnique, CNRS, Sorbonne University, Observatoire de Paris, Univ. Paris-Sud, F-91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France
- Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), 2201 France
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- European Space Agency, ESTEC, 75231 Noordwijk, Netherlands
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- Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, École Polytechnique, CNRS, Sorbonne University, Observatoire de Paris, Univ. Paris-Sud, F-91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France
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- School of Electronic and Information, Wuhan University, 430072 Wuhan, China
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Chen CHK, Klein KG, Howes GG. Evidence for electron Landau damping in space plasma turbulence. Nat Commun 2019; 10:740. [PMID: 30765843 PMCID: PMC6375956 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-08435-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2018] [Accepted: 01/08/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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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 technique to directly measure the transfer of energy between the turbulent electromagnetic field and electrons in the Earth's magnetosheath, the region of solar wind downstream of the Earth's bow shock. The measurement of the secular energy transfer from the parallel electric field as a function of electron velocity shows a signature consistent with Landau damping. This signature is coherent over time, close to the predicted resonant velocity, similar to that seen in kinetic Alfven turbulence simulations, and disappears under phase randomisation. This suggests that electron Landau damping could play a significant role in turbulent plasma heating, and that the technique is a valuable tool for determining the particle energisation processes operating in space and astrophysical plasmas.
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- C H K Chen
- School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, London, E1 4NS, UK.
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- Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85719, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA
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Sorriso-Valvo L, Catapano F, Retinò A, Le Contel O, Perrone D, Roberts OW, Coburn JT, Panebianco V, Valentini F, Perri S, Greco A, Malara F, Carbone V, Veltri P, Pezzi O, Fraternale F, Di Mare F, Marino R, Giles B, Moore TE, Russell CT, Torbert RB, Burch JL, Khotyaintsev YV. Turbulence-Driven Ion Beams in the Magnetospheric Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2019; 122:035102. [PMID: 30735422 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.122.035102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2018] [Revised: 12/10/2018] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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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 explore the cross-scale connection between the fluid-scale energy cascade and plasma processes at subion scales. When the small-scale energy transfer is dominated by Alfvénic, correlated velocity, and magnetic field fluctuations, beams of accelerated particles are more likely observed. Here, for the first time, we report observations suggesting the nonlinear wave-particle interaction as one possible mechanism for the energy dissipation in space plasmas.
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- Luca Sorriso-Valvo
- Nanotec/CNR, U.O.S. di Cosenza, Ponte P. Bucci, cubo 31C, 87036 Rende, Italy and Departamento de Física, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, 170517 Quito, Ecuador
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria, Ponte P. Bucci, cubo 31C, 87036 Rende, Italy and LPP-CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/Sorbonne Université, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France
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- LPP-CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/Sorbonne Université, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France
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- LPP-CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/Sorbonne Université, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France
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- Department of Physics, Imperial College of London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Schmiedlstrasse 6, 8042 Graz, Austria
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria, Ponte P. Bucci, cubo 31C, 87036 Rende, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria, Ponte P. Bucci, cubo 31C, 87036 Rende, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria, Ponte P. Bucci, cubo 31C, 87036 Rende, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria, Ponte P. Bucci, cubo 31C, 87036 Rende, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria, Ponte P. Bucci, cubo 31C, 87036 Rende, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria, Ponte P. Bucci, cubo 31C, 87036 Rende, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria, Ponte P. Bucci, cubo 31C, 87036 Rende, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria, Ponte P. Bucci, cubo 31C, 87036 Rende, Italy
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- Gran Sasso Science Institute, Viale F. Crispi 7, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria, Ponte P. Bucci, cubo 31C, 87036 Rende, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienza Applicata e Tecnologia, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Torino, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Sem Sælands Vei 26, Fysikkbygningen 0371 Oslo, Norway
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- Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides et d'Acoustique, CNRS, École Centrale de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, INSA de Lyon, F-69134 Écully, France
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- NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, and Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-1567, USA
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- Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas 78238-5166, USA
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