PLASMA BETA DEPENDENCE OF THE ION-SCALE SPECTRAL BREAK OF SOLAR WIND TURBULENCE: HIGH-RESOLUTION 2D HYBRID SIMULATIONS
PLASMA BETA DEPENDENCE OF THE ION-SCALE SPECTRAL BREAK OF SOLAR WIND TURBULENCE: HIGH-RESOLUTION 2D HYBRID SIMULATIONS
We investigate properties of the ion-scale spectral break of solar wind turbulence by means of two-dimensional high-resolution hybrid particle-in-cell simulations. We impose an initial ambient magnetic field perpendicular to the simulation box and add a spectrum of in-plane, large-scale, magnetic and kinetic fluctuations. We perform a set of simulations with …