Intermittent turbulence in the heliosheath and the magnetosheath plasmas based on Voyager and THEMIS data

Macek, Wiesław M.; Wawrzaszek, Anna; Kucharuk, Beata

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-25-39-2018

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30 Jan 2018

Review article |

| 30 Jan 2018

Intermittent turbulence in the heliosheath and the magnetosheath plasmas based on Voyager and THEMIS data

Wiesław M. Macek, Anna Wawrzaszek, and Beata Kucharuk

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RC1: 'comment', Anonymous Referee #1, 25 Sep 2017
- AC1: 'reply to ref 1', Wieslaw M. Macek, 13 Nov 2017
RC2: 'referee comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 02 Oct 2017
- AC2: 'reply to ref 2', Wieslaw M. Macek, 13 Nov 2017
RC3: 'Comments on paper', Anonymous Referee #3, 07 Oct 2017
- AC3: 'reply to ref 3', Wieslaw M. Macek, 13 Nov 2017

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AR by Wieslaw M. Macek on behalf of the Authors (04 Dec 2017) Manuscript

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The aim of this review is a comparison of intermittency in the heliosphere and the magnetosphere. We show that turbulence in the heliosheath and even at the heliospheric boundaries is intermittent. Moreover, analysis of turbulence in the magnetosheath shows that for very high Alfvénic Mach numbers and high plasma beta we have non-Gaussian statistics in the transverse directions. However, for directions parallel to the magnetic fields, the plasma is close to equilibrium.