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利用密度涨落测量约束太阳风中低频阿尔文Turbulence

Constraining Low-Frequency Alfvenic Turbulence in the Solar Wind Using Density Fluctuation Measurements

Benjamin D. G. Chandran, Eliot Quataert, Gregory G. Howes, Qian Xia, Peera Pongkitiwanichakul

摘要:

一个被提出的加热太阳风的机制,从接近太阳到超过10天文单位,调用低频,倾斜,阿尔芬波湍流。由于小尺度斜阿尔芬波(动力阿尔芬波)是压缩的,在太阳风中测量到的密度波动对动力阿尔芬波的振幅设置了上限,因此对太阳风可以被低频阿尔芬湍流加热的速率设置了上限。我们评估这两个冕洞在5太阳半径和在近地太阳风的上限。在这两个半径,上限,我们发现是一致的模型中,太阳风加热低频阿尔文湍流。在1天文单位,从测量的密度波动的湍流加热率的上限是在测量的太阳风加热率的2倍。因此,如果低频阿尔文湍流有助于加热近地太阳风,动力阿尔文波必须是一个主要来源的太阳风密度波动的频率为1赫兹。我们还提出了一个简单的论点,为什么密度波动测量似乎排除模型中,太阳风加热的非湍流高频波"扫“通过离子回旋共振,但与加热的低频阿尔芬湍流兼容。

英文摘要:

One proposed mechanism for heating the solar wind, from close to the sun to beyond 10 AU, invokes low-frequency, oblique, Alfven-wave turbulence. Because small-scale oblique Alfven waves (kinetic Alfven waves) are compressive, the measured density fluctuations in the solar wind place an upper limit on the amplitude of kinetic Alfven waves and hence an upper limit on the rate at which the solar wind can be heated by low-frequency, Alfvenic turbulence. We evaluate this upper limit for both coronal holes at 5 solar radii and in the near-Earth solar wind. At both radii, the upper limit we find is consistent with models in which the solar wind is heated by low-frequency Alfvenic turbulence. At 1 AU, the upper limit on the turbulent heating rate derived from the measured density fluctuations is within a factor of 2 of the measured solar wind heating rate. Thus if low-frequency Alfvenic turbulence contributes to heating the near-Earth solar wind, kinetic Alfven waves must be one of the dominant sources of solar wind density fluctuations at frequencies of order 1 Hz. We also present a simple argument for why density fluctuation measurements do appear to rule out models in which the solar wind is heated by non-turbulent high-frequency waves ``sweeping'' through the ion-cyclotron resonance, but are compatible with heating by low-frequency Alfvenic turbulence.

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