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基于各向异性Alfvenic- turbulence的质子温度各向异性太阳风模型

An anisotropic-Alfvenic-turbulence-based solar wind model with proton temperature anisotropy

Bo Li, Shadia Rifai Habbal

摘要:

太阳风如何被加速到超音速与它如何被加热密切相关。基于离子回旋共振的机制已经成功地解释了大量的观测结果,特别是那些关于冕洞上方显著的离子温度各向异性的观测结果。然而,它们与湍流理论不一致,湍流理论认为像日冕这样的低β介质中的湍流级联应该在垂直而不是平行方向上进行,这意味着在离子回旋频率范围内离子通过离子回旋共振吸收的能量很少。最近提出了一种基于太阳风粒子和各向异性湍流之间相互作用的机制,其中垂直质子能量增加是通过随机加热实现的(Alberran等人,2011年)。我们通过适当考虑质子温度各向异性对阿尔芬波传播的影响,电子能量的辐射损失,以及自然伴随着太阳风在日冕中的场线曲率,扩展了这一有前途的机制。虽然这种机制在以前的研究中被证明适用于极地快速太阳风,我们在这里首次证明,它也适用于沿场线边界的流光头盔流动的慢风。

英文摘要:

How the solar wind is accelerated to its supersonic speed is intimately related to how it is heated. Mechanisms based on ion-cyclotron resonance have been successful in explaining a large number of observations, those concerning the significant ion temperature anisotropy above coronal holes in particular. However, they suffer from the inconsistency with turbulence theory which says that the turbulent cascade in a low-beta medium like the solar corona should proceed in the perpendicular rather than the parallel direction, meaning that there is little energy in the ion gyro-frequency range for ions to absorb via ion-cyclotron resonance. Recently a mechanism based on the interaction between the solar wind particles and the anisotropic turbulence has been proposed, where the perpendicular proton energy addition is via the stochastic heating (Chandran et al. 2011). We extend this promising mechanism by properly accounting for the effect of proton temperature anisotropy on the propagation of Alfven waves, for the radiative losses of electron energy, and for the field line curvature that naturally accompanies solar winds in the corona. While this mechanism was shown in previous studies to apply to the polar fast solar wind, we demonstrate here for the first time that it applies also to the slow wind flowing along field lines bordering streamer helmets.

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