Whist/er waves are believed to play an important role during magnetic reconnection. In this paper, we report the simultaneous occurrence of two types of the whistler waves in the magnetotail reconnection diffusion region. The first type is observed in the pileup region of downstream and propagates away along the field lines to downstream, and is possibly generated by the electron temperature aniso...Show More
Turbulence Heating ObserveR (THOR) is a spacecraft mission dedicated to the study of plasma turbulence in near-Earth space. The mission is currently under study for implementation as a part of ESA Cosmic Vision program. THOR will involve a single spinning spacecraft equipped with state of the art instruments capable of sensitive measurements of electromagnetic fields and plasma particles. The sens...Show More
Magnetic turbulence in the solar wind has been studied for many years. Most of the observational work have been -5/3 focused on the large (MHD) scales, i.e. the so-called inertial range with a Kolmogorov scaling k-5/3 [e.g.,1,2]. The inertial range is widely believed to form by strong nonlinear interaction of Alfvén waves. However, the anisotropy of the turbulence (in wavenumber space) is still ho...Show More