Plasma turbulence in the interstellar medium
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Interplanetary and interstellar plasma turbulence
Theoretical approaches to low-frequencymagnetized turbulence in collisionless and weakly collisional astrophysical plasmas are reviewed. The proper starting point for an analytical description of these plasmas is kinetic theory, not fluid equations. The anisotropy of the turbulence is used to systematically derive a series of reduced analytical models. Above the ion gyroscale, it is shown rigou...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0741-3335,1361-6587
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6587/ab49eb