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在太阳风中磁turbulence在电子尺度上的类流体耗散

Fluid-like dissipation of magnetic turbulence at electron scales in the solar wind

O. Alexandrova, C. Lacombe, A. Mangeney, R. Grappin

摘要:

在太阳风中,磁场涨落的湍流谱在离子特征尺度上显示出谱突变。在电子尺度上,光谱形状还没有完全确定。在这里,我们进行了102光谱等离子体动力学尺度的统计研究,测量的集群/STAFF仪器在自由太阳风。我们发现,在高频范围[1,400] Hz内,磁谱的形式与流体动力学中耗散范围~Ak^(-α)exp(-kl_d)内的磁谱相似。发现耗散尺度l_d与电子的拉莫尔半径ρ_e有关。谱指数α在[2.2,2.9]范围内变化,并且与l_d反相关,正如在能量注入和能量耗散之间平衡的情况下所预期的那样。发现系数A与离子温度各向异性成正比,表明局域离子不稳定性可能对等离子体动力学尺度下的太阳风湍流起一定作用。这里发现的指数谱形状表明,太阳风中磁涨落的有效耗散具有与碰撞流体~k^2δB中电阻项类似的波数依赖性。

英文摘要:

The turbulent spectrum of magnetic fluctuations in the solar wind displays a spectral break at ion characteristic scales. At electron scales the spectral shape is not yet completely established. Here, we perform a statistical study of 102 spectra at plasma kinetic scales, measured by the Cluster/STAFF instrument in the free solar wind. We show that the magnetic spectrum in the high frequency range, [1,400] Hz, has a form similar to what is found in hydrodynamics in the dissipation range ~Ak^(-α)exp(-kl_d). The dissipation scale l_d is found to be correlated with the electron Larmor radius ρ_e. The spectral index αvaries in the range [2.2,2.9] and is anti-correlated with l_d, as expected in the case of the balance between the energy injection and the energy dissipation. The coefficient A is found to be proportional to the ion temperature anisotropy, suggesting that local ion instabilities may play some role for the solar wind turbulence at plasma kinetic scales. The exponential spectral shape found here indicates that the effective dissipation of magnetic fluctuations in the solar wind has a wave number dependence similar to that of the resistive term in collisional fluids ~k^2δB.

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