Primary Convener:
Lingling Zhao, University of Alabama in Huntsville

Convener:
Gary Zank, Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research
William Matthaeus, University of Delaware
Michael Starkey, Southwest Research Institute

Early Career Convener:
Xingyu Zhu, University of Alabama in Huntsville

Chair:
Lingling Zhao, Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research
William Matthaeus, University of Delaware
Michael Starkey, Southwest Research Institute
Xingyu Zhu, University of Alabama in Huntsville

The solar wind plasma contains a variety of intermittent structures and wave modes, including current sheets, density filaments, magnetic islands, and velocity shears, alongside wave modes with distinct dispersion and polarization properties. These phenomena, spanning from magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) to kinetic scales, play essential roles in solar wind turbulence, energy dissipation, and particle transport. Moreover, structures and waves such as those driven by pickup ions are universally important for both heliospheric and planetary environments. Recent progress has been enabled by high-quality measurements from Parker Solar Probe, Solar Orbiter, MMS, and PUNCH, etc., as well as advances in modeling and data analysis techniques. We invite contributions that explore the identification and characterization of structures and waves in heliospheric plasmas, their generation mechanisms, evolution in turbulent environments, and their impact on plasma dynamics and particle transport. We welcome studies that highlight new observational, theoretical, or numerical results.

Index Terms
7811 Discontinuities
7836 MHD waves and instabilities
7846 Plasma energization
7863 Turbulence

Cross-Listed:
P - Planetary Sciences
NG - Nonlinear Geophysics
SM - SPA-Magnetospheric Physics

Neighborhoods:
4. Beyond Earth

Suggested Itineraries:
Space Weather
Science Communications