Collisionless Isotropization of the Solar-Wind Protons by Compressive Fluctuations and Plasma Instabilities

Daniel Verscharen, University of New Hampshire, Space Science Center, Durham, United States, Benjamin D G Chandran, University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, Prof. Kristopher Gregory Klein, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States; University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Eliot Quataert, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States