Enabling Unprecedented Exploration of Kinetic Plasma Phenomena: Utilizing and Reaching Beyond the MMS FPI Breakthrough
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2023-07-31
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Shuster, Jason, Daniel Gershman, Naoki Bessho, Shan Wang, Vadim Uritsky, Li-Jen Chen, Harsha Gurram, et al. “Enabling Unprecedented Exploration of Kinetic Plasma Phenomena: Utilizing and Reaching Beyond the MMS FPI Breakthrough.” Bulletin of the AAS 55, no. 3 (July 31, 2023). https://doi.org/10.3847/25c2cfeb.98299e2c.
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The spectrometer suites onboard NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission offered us an unexpected breakthrough in measurement capability that no spacecraft or laboratory experiment has achieved previously: the ingeniously engineered FPI dual ion and electron spectrometers enable direct measurement of terms in the Vlasov equation for the first time in the history of plasma physics research.