Speaker
Dr
Antonella Greco
(Physics Department, University of Calabria, Italy)
Description
The intermittent properties of the turbulent field at different scales
down towards
electron scales have been studied using CLUSTER magnetic field data in
solar wind.
We found that turbulence, in some cases, orginizes itself in
unidimensional current
sheets well descibed by an Harris equilibrium on electron scales. These
structures
could be those structures that numerical simulations indicate as
important sites of
energy dissipation and particle heating occurring at kinetic scales.
Indeed, most of the time they are consistent with ongoing magnetic
reconnection.
Primary author
Dr
Antonella Greco
(Physics Department, University of Calabria, Italy)
Co-authors
Dr
Sergio Servidio
(Physics Department, University of Calabria, italy)
Dr
Silvia Perri
(Physics Department, University of Calabria, italy)
