The PWS was also key to the recent electron-burst discovery. The Plasma Wave Subsystem, included on the Voyager mission at the last minute, has performed admirably for the last 43 years and has ...

Understanding chorus waves is vital, as they create fast-moving, highly energetic electrons (known as killer electrons) that can penetrate spacecraft shielding and destroy important systems.

Peculiar bursts of energy called chorus waves have been detected in deep space far from our planet, suggesting they could pose problems for long-distance space travel ...

The paper, "Revealing an Unexpectedly Low Electron Injection Threshold via ... including the interaction of electrons with various plasma waves, transient structures in the foreshock, and Earth's ...

This challenge may now have been met. Electron cyclotron waves not only provide a useful means of heating an ITER-scale fusion plasma, but are expected to play a key role in controlling ...

Static fields of this order generated in a solid target can be used to accelerate protons and ions, whereas ‘travelling’ electric fields supported by the creation of electron plasma waves by a ...

Before electrons can be accelerated by these shock waves, they need to contain ... The current study suggests that electron acceleration is the result of many plasma-driven events occurring ...

Our goal is to study particle beam acceleration in strong plasma waves that are generated by the passage of ... One result of such favorable scaling could be the dissemination of X-ray free electron ...