KAWs in Extrasolar Astrophysical Plasmas

In previous chapters we comprehensively introduced KAWs in space and solar plasmas, including their observational identifications and applications to related particle kinetic phenomena, such as the auroral energetic electron acceleration in auroral magnetospheric plasmas, the anomalous particle transport in the magnetopause, the kinetic turbulence in the solar wind, and the solar coronal heating problem. The solar and solar-system plasma, especially the solar-terrestrial coupling system, is a natural laboratory for plasma astrophysics.