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arXiv 0905.2618astro-ph.SR
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由低频阿尔文波反射驱动的亚阿尔文太阳风中的Turbulence

Turbulence in the sub-Alfvénic solar wind driven by reflection of low-frequency Alfvén waves

A. Verdini, M. Velli, E. Buchlin

摘要:

我们研究的形成和演变的湍流光谱的阿尔文波驱动的反射关闭的太阳风密度梯度,从日冕底部到17个太阳半径,远远超过阿尔文临界点。对背景太阳风进行了赋值,并采用二维壳层模型来描述非线性相互作用。我们发现湍流谱受反射波性质的影响。靠近底部,这些分别产生出射波和反射波的更平坦和更陡峭的光谱。在更高的日心距离,两个光谱演变的渐近Kolmogorov谱。湍流耗散被发现占至少一半的加热需要维持的背景强加的太阳风和它的形状被发现是由反射确定的湍流加热低于1.5太阳半径。因此,反射和反射驱动的湍流被证明在快速太阳风的加速和在日光层中0.3 AU处发现的湍流光谱的起源中起着关键作用。

英文摘要:

We study the formation and evolution of a turbulent spectrum of Alfvén waves driven by reflection off the solar wind density gradients, starting from the coronal base up to 17 solar radii, well beyond the Alfvénic critical point. The background solar wind is assigned and 2D shell models are used to describe nonlinear interactions. We find that the turbulent spectra are influenced by the nature of reflected waves. Close to the base, these give rise to a flatter and steeper spectrum for the outgoing and reflected waves respectively. At higher heliocentric distance both spectra evolve toward an asymptotic Kolmogorov spectrum. The turbulent dissipation is found to account for at least half of the heating required to sustain the background imposed solar wind and its shape is found to be determined by the reflection-determined turbulent heating below 1.5 solar radii. Therefore reflection and reflection-driven turbulence are shown to play a key role in the accelerationof the fast solar wind and origin of the turbulent spectrum found at 0.3 AU in the heliosphere.

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