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Sub-ion Scale Compressive Turbulence in the Solar Wind: MMS Spacecraft Potential Observations
Austrian Acad Sci, Space Res Inst, Graz, Austria..ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3913-1353
Austrian Acad Sci, Space Res Inst, Graz, Austria..ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2620-9211
Austrian Acad Sci, Space Res Inst, Graz, Austria..
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2020 (English)In: Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, ISSN 0067-0049, E-ISSN 1538-4365, Vol. 250, no 2, article id 35Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Compressive plasma turbulence is investigated at sub-ion scales in the solar wind using both the Fast Plasma Investigation (FPI) instrument on the Magnetospheric MultiScale mission (MMS), as well as using calibrated spacecraft potential data from the Spin Plane Double Probe (SDP) instrument. The data from FPI allow the sub-ion scale region (f(sc) greater than or similar to 1 Hz) to be investigated before the instrumental noise becomes significant at a spacecraft frame frequency off(sc) 3 Hz. Whereas the calibrated spacecraft potential allows a measurement up tof(sc) 40 Hz. In this work, we give a detailed description of density estimation in the solar wind using the spacecraft potential measurement from the SDP instrument on MMS. Several intervals of solar wind plasma have been processed using the methodology described and are made available. One of the intervals is investigated in more detail and the power spectral density of the compressive fluctuations is measured from the inertial range to the sub-ion range. The morphology of the density spectra can be explained by either a cascade of Alfven waves and slow waves at large scales and kinetic Alfven waves at sub-ion scales or more generally by the Hall effect. Using electric field measurements, the two hypotheses are discussed.

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American Astronomical Society , 2020. Vol. 250, no 2, article id 35
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Interplanetary turbulence, Space plasmas, Plasma physics, Solar wind
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Fusion, Plasma and Space Physics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-285737DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/abb45dISI: 000578442100001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85094669158OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-285737DiVA, id: diva2:1500838
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Available from: 2020-11-13 Created: 2020-11-13 Last updated: 2022-06-25Bibliographically approved

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