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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2019-02-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08435-3 |