| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 67, Number 3, August 2004
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 504 - 510 | |
| Section | Geophysics, astronomy, and astrophysics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2003-10294-8 | |
| Published online | 01 July 2004 | |
One-point statistics and intermittency of induced electric field in the solar wind
1
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria and Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, Sezione di Cosenza Ponte Pietro Bucci, cubo 31C, I-87030 Rende (CS), Italy
2
Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario, CNR - I-00133 Roma, Italy
Received:
20
November
2003
Accepted:
25
May
2004
The interplanetary induced electric field 
is studied, using solar-wind time series. The probability
distribution functions (PDFs) of the electric-field components
are measured from the data and their non-gaussianity is discussed.
Moreover, for the first time we show that the electric-field
turbulence is characterized by intermittency. This point is
addressed by studying, as usual, the scaling of the PDFs of field
increments, which allows a quantitative characterization of
intermittency.
PACS: 96.50.Bh – Solar and interplanetary electric and magnetic fields (including solar wind fields) / 52.35.Ra – Plasma turbulence / 52.25.Gj – Fluctuation and chaos phenomena
© EDP Sciences, 2004
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