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在1 AU的太阳风中,无碰撞阻尼的动力学Alfven波级联不能达到电子尺度

A Kinetic Alfven wave cascade subject to collisionless damping cannot reach electron scales in the solar wind at 1 AU

J. J. Podesta, J. E. Borovsky, S. P. Gary

摘要:

太阳风中的湍流被认为会产生能量级联,主要由MHD尺度下的阿尔文波或阿尔文波动和动力学尺度下的动力学阿尔文波(KAWs)支持。线性朗道阻尼随波数的增加而增加,在某一点,阻尼变得如此之强,以至于能量级联完全耗散。一个模型的能量级联过程中,包括线性碰撞无阻尼的KAWs和相关的复合的阻尼在整个级联过程中的影响,用于确定波数的能量级联终止。据发现,这个波数发生时,大约$|γ/ω|\simeq 0.25$,其中$ω(k)$和$γ(k)$,分别是,KAWs的实际频率和阻尼率和比率$γ/ω$的传播角接近90度相对于平均磁场的方向在极限评估。

英文摘要:

(Abridged) Turbulence in the solar wind is believed to generate an energy cascade that is supported primarily by Alfvén waves or Alfvénic fluctuations at MHD scales and by kinetic Alfvén waves (KAWs) at kinetic scales $k_\perp ρ_i\gtrsim 1$. Linear Landau damping of KAWs increases with increasing wavenumber and at some point the damping becomes so strong that the energy cascade is completely dissipated. A model of the energy cascade process that includes the effects of linear collisionless damping of KAWs and the associated compounding of this damping throughout the cascade process is used to determine the wavenumber where the energy cascade terminates. It is found that this wavenumber occurs approximately when $|γ/ω|\simeq 0.25$, where $ω(k)$ and $γ(k)$ are, respectively, the real frequency and damping rate of KAWs and the ratio $γ/ω$ is evaluated in the limit as the propagation angle approaches 90 degrees relative to the direction of the mean magnetic field.

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