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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 866, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aade93
Keywords
magnetohydrodynamics (MHD); methods: data analysis; methods: statistical; plasmas; solar wind; turbulence
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Funding
- MMS mission through NASA grant at the University of Delaware [NNX14AC39G]
- NASA LWS grant [NNX17AB79G]
- Parker Solar Probe Plus project through Princeton/IScircle dotIS [SUB0000165]
- NSF-SHINE [AGS-1460130]
- NASA grants
- CNES
- CNRS
- NASA [686197, NNX14AC39G] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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Studies of solar wind turbulence traditionally employ high-resolution magnetic field data, but high-resolution measurements of ion and electron moments have been possible only recently. We report the first turbulence studies of ion and electron velocity moments accumulated in pristine solar wind by the Fast Plasma Investigation (FPI) instrument on board the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission. Use of these data is made possible by a novel implementation of a frequency domain Hampel filter, described herein. After presenting procedures for processing of the data, we discuss statistical properties of solar wind turbulence extending into the kinetic range. Magnetic field fluctuations dominate electron and ion-velocity fluctuation spectra throughout the energy-containing and inertial ranges. However, a multispacecraft analysis indicates that at scales shorter than the ion inertial length, electron velocity fluctuations become larger than ion-velocity and magnetic field fluctuations. The kurtosis of ion-velocity peaks around a few ion inertial lengths and returns to a near Gaussian value at sub-ion scales.
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