593The region downstream of a supercritical collisionless shock, the magnetosheath (MSH), is known to be in a highly disturbed turbulent state [1][2][3]. The undisturbed solar wind (SW) streams with supermagnetosonic velocity V > c ms at a magnetosonic Mach number up to M ms ~ 15. At the Earth's bow shock (BS), the SW decelerates to Mach numbers M ms < 1, thermalizes, and, when entering the MSH, is compressed by roughly a factor of 4. The flow downstream of the BS is highly disturbed and turbulent. However, the MSH is not spacious enough for the turbulence to reach a quasi-sta- ¶ The text was submitted by the authors in English.tionarity. It remains not fully developed, intermittent, and structured in time and space. In this framework, high-energy density jets have been observed in the past in the magnetosheath [1,5]. As a development of such earlier studies, we have found more than 140 events of an anomalously high kinetic energy density in the MSH during 20 orbits of Interball-1 , Cluster , Polar , and Geotail . Here, we concentrate on two MSH crossings-by Interball-1 and Cluster [11], respectively-characterized by the bursts of an extraordinarily high ion flux and kinetic energy density. High energy density jets in the magnetosheath near the Earth magnetopause were observed by Interball-1 [1]. In this paper, we continue the investigation of this important physical phenomenon. New data provided by Cluster show that the magnetosheath kinetic energy density during more than one hour exhibits an average level and a series of peaks far exceeding the kinetic energy density in the undisturbed solar wind. This is a surprising finding because the kinetic energy of the upstream solar wind in equilibrium should be significantly diminished downstream in the magnetosheath due to plasma braking and thermalization at the bow shock. We suggest resolving the energy conservation problem by the fact that the nonequilibrium jets appear to be locally superimposed on the background equilibrium magnetosheath, and, thus, the energy balance should be settled globally on the spatial scales of the entire dayside magnetosheath. We show that both the Cluster and Interball jets are accompanied by plasma superdiffusion and suggest that they are important for the energy dissipation and plasma transport. The character of the jet-related turbulence strongly differs from that of known standard cascade models. We infer that these jets may represent the phenomenon of the general physical occurrence observed in other natural systems, such as heliosphere, astrophysical, and fusion plasmas [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. High Energy Jets in the Earth

Abstract. We present multi spacecraft measurements in the magnetosheath (MSH) and in the solar wind (SW) by Interball, Cluster and Polar, demonstrating that coherent structures with magnetosonic Mach number up to 3 -Supermagnetosonic Plasma Streams (SPS) -generate transient and anomalous boundary dynamics, which may cause substantial displacements of the magnetospheric boundaries and the riddling of peripheral boundary layers. In this regard, for the first time, we describe a direct plasma penetration into the flank boundary layers, which is a candidate for being the dominant transport mechanism for disturbed MSH periods.Typically SPS's have a ram pressure exceeding by several times that of the SW and lead to long-range correlations between processes at the bow shock (BS) and at the magnetopause (MP) on one side and between MSH and MP boundary layers on the other side. We demonstrate that SPS's can be observed both near the BS and near the MP and argue that they are often triggered by hot flow anomalies (HFA), which represent local obstacles to the SW flow and can induce the SPS generation as a means for achieving a local flow balance. Finally, we also discuss other causes of SPS's, both SW-induced and intrinsic to the MSH.SPS's appear to be universal means for establishing a new equilibrium between flowing plasmas and may also prove to be important for astrophysical and fusion applications.

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A comparative study of fluctuation features in the edge plasma of fusion devices and in turbulent boundary layers (TBLs) of the Earth's magnetosphere has demonstrated similar statistical characteristics including scalings of structure functions and multifractal spectra. The detected intermittency and anomalous transport of mass and momentum is carried by sporadic plasma flux bursts with nonGaussian probability of flux magnitude. The turbulence exhibits a generalized (extended) self-similarity in an extended scale range. The experimental scalings of the structure functions are rather well fitted by the log-Poisson model considering quasi-1D singular dissipative structures. It appears that the turbulence in the edge plasma of fusion devices and in the TBL of the Earth's magnetosphere is governed by cross-field motions similar to hydrodynamic turbulence. Here the experimental scalings from the plasma are available for a comparison with experimental results from neutral fluids. The plasma scalings display universal properties of intermittent turbulence. A statistical approach permits us to evaluate turbulent transport scalings. The time dependence of an average squared particle displacements δx 2 ∝ τ α infers superdiffusion with α ≈ 1.4-1.87 > 1.