Evidence for electron Landau damping in space plasma turbulence
Various physical mechanisms are proposed to explain the heating observed in turbulent astrophysical plasmas. Here, Chen et al. find a signature consistent with one of these mechanisms, electron Landau damping, by applying a field-particle correlation technique to in situ spacecraft data of turbulenc...
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Nature Portfolio
2019
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Online Access: | https://doaj.org/article/5f09d802dc6d4ecb82e68c0d892f320c |
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Summary: | Various physical mechanisms are proposed to explain the heating observed in turbulent astrophysical plasmas. Here, Chen et al. find a signature consistent with one of these mechanisms, electron Landau damping, by applying a field-particle correlation technique to in situ spacecraft data of turbulence in the Earth’s magnetosheath. |
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