Inhomogeneous Distribution of High-Amplitude Kinetic Alfvén Waves in the Near-Sun Solar Wind

David Malaspina1, Alexandros Chasapis2, Peter Tatum3, Chadi S Salem4, Stuart D Bale5, John W Bonnell6, Thierry Dudok de Wit7, Keith Goetz8, Marc Pulupa9, Jasper S Halekas10, Phyllis L Whittlesey11, Roberto Livi11, Anthony W Case12, Michael Louis Stevens12 and Davin E Larson13, (1)University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (2)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (4)University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (7)LPC2E, CNRS and University of Orléans, Orléans, France, (8)University of Minnesota, School of Physics and Astronomy, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (9)Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (10)University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, (11)Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (12)Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, United States, (13)Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States