Statistical Distribution of the Characteristic Heating Frequency in Mesoscale Physical Processes in Space Plasmas: Application to the Kelvin-Helmholtz and Drift Mirror Instabilities

Katariina Nykyri; Kevin Blasl; Yu Lun Liou; Xuanye Ma; Guan Le; Daniel Gershman; Larry Kepko; Christine Gabrielse; Barbara Giles

doi:10.1029/2026JA035233

Statistical Distribution of the Characteristic Heating Frequency in Mesoscale Physical Processes in Space Plasmas: Application to the Kelvin-Helmholtz and Drift Mirror Instabilities

Katariina Nykyri
, Kevin Blasl
, Yu Lun Liou
, Xuanye Ma
, Guan Le
, Daniel Gershman
, Larry Kepko
, Christine Gabrielse
, Barbara Giles

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Space Research Institute
The Aerospace Corporation

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Original language	English
Article number	e2026JA035233
Journal	Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
Volume	131
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1029/2026JA035233
State	Published - May 2026
Externally published	Yes

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

Geophysics
Space and Planetary Science

Keywords

cross-scale plasma heating
drift mirror instability
Kelvin-Helmholtz instability
magnetic reconnection
non-adiabatic heating
non-Gaussian distributions

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Nykyri, K., Blasl, K., Liou, Y. L., Ma, X., Le, G., Gershman, D., Kepko, L., Gabrielse, C., & Giles, B. (2026). Statistical Distribution of the Characteristic Heating Frequency in Mesoscale Physical Processes in Space Plasmas: Application to the Kelvin-Helmholtz and Drift Mirror Instabilities. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 131(5), Article e2026JA035233. https://doi.org/10.1029/2026JA035233

Statistical Distribution of the Characteristic Heating Frequency in Mesoscale Physical Processes in Space Plasmas: Application to the Kelvin-Helmholtz and Drift Mirror Instabilities. / Nykyri, Katariina; Blasl, Kevin; Liou, Yu Lun et al.
In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, Vol. 131, No. 5, e2026JA035233, 05.2026.

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Nykyri, K, Blasl, K, Liou, YL, Ma, X, Le, G, Gershman, D, Kepko, L, Gabrielse, C & Giles, B 2026, 'Statistical Distribution of the Characteristic Heating Frequency in Mesoscale Physical Processes in Space Plasmas: Application to the Kelvin-Helmholtz and Drift Mirror Instabilities', Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, vol. 131, no. 5, e2026JA035233. https://doi.org/10.1029/2026JA035233

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