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    Turbulence-generated proton-scale structures in the terrestrial magnetosheath

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    Vörös, Z.
    Yordanova, E.
    Echim, M.M.
    Consolini, G.
    Narita, Y.
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    Discipline
    Physical sciences
    Audience
    Scientific
    Date
    2016
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    Recent results of numerical magnetohydrodynamic simulations suggest that in collisionless space plasmas, turbulence can spontaneously generate thin current sheets. These coherent structures can partially explain the intermittency and the non-homogenous distribution of localized plasma heating in turbulence. In this Letter, Cluster multi-point observations are used to investigate the distribution of magnetic field discontinuities and the associated small-scale current sheets in the terrestrial magnetosheath downstream of a quasi-parallel bow shock. It is shown experimentally, for the first time, that the strongest turbulence-generated current sheets occupy the long tails of probability distribution functions associated with extremal values of magnetic field partial derivatives. During the analyzed one-hour time interval, about a hundred strong discontinuities, possibly proton-scale current sheets, were observed. © 2016. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
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    Vörös, Z.; Yordanova, E.; Echim, M.M.; Consolini, G.; Narita, Y. (2016). Turbulence-generated proton-scale structures in the terrestrial magnetosheath. , Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 819, Issue 1, L15, DOI: 10.3847/2041-8205/819/1/L15.
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    uri: https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/3340
    doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/2041-8205/819/1/L15
    scopus: 2-s2.0-84960194185
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    Yes
    Language
    eng
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