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年轻太阳风中衰落日冕结构和Turbulence的爆发

Fading Coronal Structure and the Onset of Turbulence in the Young Solar Wind

C. E. DeForest, W. H. Matthaeus, N. M. Viall, S. R. Cranmer

摘要:

在日冕顶部上方,年轻的慢速太阳风从以径向结构为主的低β磁结构流过渡到以流体动力学为主的高β结构流。这种转变,长期以来通过理论推断,在处理后的背景减除太阳风图像中,在距离太阳接近10度的天空区域很明显。我们目前的STEREO/HI 1仪器在2008年12月收集的图像序列,涵盖了从太阳中心约4至24度的表观距离,并跨越了大规模风形态的过渡。我们描述的观察和新技术,以提取不断变化的图像结构的图像,我们使用这些数据和技术来呈现和量化的清晰的纹理变化的表观结构的日冕和太阳风在这个高度范围内。我们表明,表观纹理的变化是由于异常褪色的径向条纹的特点日冕,并异常相对增亮的局部密集的泡芙的太阳风,我们称之为“絮凝”,并表明这些现象是不一致的平滑径向流,但与发病的流体动力学或MHD不稳定性,导致湍流级联在年轻的太阳风。

英文摘要:

Above the top of the solar corona, the young slow solar wind transitions from low-beta, magnetically structured flow dominated by radial structures, to high-beta, less structured flow dominated by hydrodynamics. This transition, long inferred via theory, is readily apparent in the sky region close to 10 degrees from the Sun, in processed, background-subtracted solar wind images. We present image sequences collected by the STEREO/HI1 instrument in 2008 Dec, covering apparent distances from approximately 4 to 24 degrees from the center of the Sun and spanning this transition in large-scale morphology of the wind. We describe the observation and novel techniques to extract evolving image structure from the images, and we use those data and techniques to present and quantify the clear textural shift in the apparent structure of the corona and solar wind in this altitude range. We demonstrate that the change in apparent texture is due both to anomalous fading of the radial striae that characterize the corona, and to anomalous relative brightening of locally dense puffs of solar wind that we term "flocculae;" and show that these phenomena are inconsistent with smooth radial flow, but consistent with onset of hydrodynamic or MHD instabilities leading to a turbulent cascade in the young solar wind.

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