The role of electrostatic ion-beam instabilities in the generation of the broadband electrostatic noise in the earth’s magnetotail and in electrostatic bursts in comets is discussed. The theory of electromagnetic ion-cyclotron ...

Among the fundamental and most challenging problems of laboratory, space, and astrophysical plasma physics is to understand the relaxation processes of nearly collisionless plasmas toward quasi-stationary states and ...

Assessment of the stability of perpendicular particle drifts in cold magnetoplasmas shows that their free energy can stimulate wave activity under various circumstances that include nonoscillatory (aperiodic, purely growing) ...

Cassini plasma wave and particle observations are combined with magnetometer measurements to study Titan´s induced magnetic tail. In this study, we report and analyze the plasma acceleration in Titan´s induced magnetotail ...

We present an example of a boundary layer tailward of the dawn terminator which is entirely populated by rolled-up flow vortices. Observations were made by Wind on October 24, 2001 as the spacecraft moved across the region ...

We use magnetometer data from the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft during portions of the premapping orbits of the mission to study the variability of the Martian-induced magnetotail as a function of the orientation ...

Magnetic reconnection is one of the most important energy conversion processes in space plasmas. Theoretical models of magnetic reconnection have been traditionally developed within the framework of magnetohydrodynamics ...

The magnetosphere is a multi-scale spatio-temporal complex dynamical system. In this context, we have analyzed the multifractal behavior of the AL index, as a proxy for an energy dissipation rate, using discrete wavelet ...

We use kappa distributions to model thousands of ion and electron flux spectra along the plasma sheet and analyze the variation of the spectral index and the temperature T in this region. We find that distributions are ...