Particle-In-Cell simulations of the effect of the electron temperature anisotropy on the development of the proton firehose instability in solar wind conditions
Alfredo Micera1,2, Andrei Zhukov1,3, Elisabetta Boella4,5, Shaaban Mohammed Shaaban2,6, Rodrigo López2, Marian Lazar2,7 and Giovanni Lapenta2, (1)Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium, (2)Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Department of Mathematics, Leuven, Belgium, (3)Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, (4)Lancaster University, Physics Department, Lancaster, United Kingdom, (5)Cockcroft Institute, Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, United Kingdom, (6)Mansoura University, Physics Department, Mansoura, Egypt, (7)Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
