Imperial College London

ProfessorTimothyHorbury

Faculty of Natural SciencesDepartment of Physics

Professor of Physics
 
 
 
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Location

 

6M65Huxley BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Chen:2012:2/120,
author = {Chen, CHK and Mallet, A and Schekochihin, AA and Horbury, TS and Wicks, RT and Bale, SD},
doi = {2/120},
journal = {The Astrophysical Journal},
pages = {120--120},
title = {Three-Dimensional Structure of Solar Wind Turbulence},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/758/2/120},
volume = {758},
year = {2012}
}

RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - JOUR
AB - We present a measurement of the scale-dependent, three-dimensional structureof the magnetic field fluctuations in inertial range solar wind turbulence withrespect to a local, physically motivated coordinate system. The Alfvenicfluctuations are three-dimensionally anisotropic, with the sense of thisanisotropy varying from large to small scales. At the outer scale, the magneticfield correlations are longest in the local fluctuation direction, consistentwith Alfven waves. At the proton gyroscale, they are longest along the localmean field direction and shortest in the direction perpendicular to the localmean field and the local field fluctuation. The compressive fluctuations arehighly elongated along the local mean field direction, although axiallysymmetric perpendicular to it. Their large anisotropy may explain why they arenot heavily damped in the solar wind.
AU - Chen,CHK
AU - Mallet,A
AU - Schekochihin,AA
AU - Horbury,TS
AU - Wicks,RT
AU - Bale,SD
DO - 2/120
EP - 120
PY - 2012///
SP - 120
TI - Three-Dimensional Structure of Solar Wind Turbulence
T2 - The Astrophysical Journal
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/758/2/120
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/12543
VL - 758
ER -