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关于太阳风中的动力学慢模、流体慢模和压力平衡结构

On Kinetic Slow Modes, Fluid Slow Modes, and Pressure-balanced Structures in the Solar Wind

Daniel Verscharen, Christopher H. K. Chen, Robert T. Wicks

摘要:

对太阳风的观测表明,惯性范围内太阳风湍流的压缩分量主要由慢模式控制。太阳风的低碰撞性允许非热特征存活,这表明需要动力学等离子体描述。最小阻尼的动力学慢模式与离子声(IA)波和非传播(NP)模式。我们推导出解析表达式的IA-波的色散关系在各向异性等离子体的框架中的gyrokinetics,然后比较它们的全动力学的数值计算,从双流体理论,和MHD的结果。这种比较表明,在中等到高$β$下,MHD和动力学理论预测的波相速度存在重大差异。磁流体力学和动力学理论还规定,所有的等离子体正常模式表现出独特的签名方面的极化。我们量化的相对振幅的波动在三个最低的粒子速度的时刻与IA和NP模式的gyrokinetic限制,并比较这些预测与MHD的结果和太阳风湍流的原位观测。波偏振的观测结果和我们的MHD预测之间的一致性好于动力学预测,这表明等离子体的行为比预期的更像太阳风中的流体。

英文摘要:

Observations in the solar wind suggest that the compressive component of inertial-range solar-wind turbulence is dominated by slow modes. The low collisionality of the solar wind allows for non-thermal features to survive, which suggests the requirement of a kinetic plasma description. The least-damped kinetic slow mode is associated with the ion-acoustic (IA) wave and a non-propagating (NP) mode. We derive analytical expressions for the IA-wave dispersion relation in an anisotropic plasma in the framework of gyrokinetics and then compare them to fully-kinetic numerical calculations, results from two-fluid theory, and MHD. This comparison shows major discrepancies in the predicted wave phase speeds from MHD and kinetic theory at moderate to high $β$. MHD and kinetic theory also dictate that all plasma normal modes exhibit a unique signature in terms of their polarization. We quantify the relative amplitude of fluctuations in the three lowest particle velocity moments associated with IA and NP modes in the gyrokinetic limit and compare these predictions with MHD results and in-situ observations of the solar-wind turbulence. The agreement between the observations of the wave polarization and our MHD predictions is better than the kinetic predictions, suggesting that the plasma behaves more like a fluid in the solar wind than expected.

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