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从流体到动力学尺度的太阳风磁场背景谱

Solar wind magnetic field background spectrum from fluid to kinetic scales

R. Bruno, D. Telloni, D. DeIure, E. Pietropaolo

摘要:

太阳风在快速和缓慢的流动中是高度结构化的。这两种动力学区域不仅在磁场和等离子体参数的平均值上有显著的不同,而且在它们所传输的涨落类型上也有显著的不同。快风的特点是振幅大,不可压缩的波动,主要是Alfvénic,慢风一般是由较小的振幅和较少的Alfvénic波动,主要是压缩。典型的共转快流具有流界面、快风区和由流尾膨胀边形成的慢稀疏区的特征。移动{在这两个区域之间},从快到慢的风,我们观察到以下行为:a)在惯性范围内磁波动的功率水平大大降低,保持典型的Kolmogorov标度; b)在质子尺度下,在高频突变之后的大约十年内,谱指数变得越来越平坦,接近-2.7左右的值; c)在较高频率下,在电子定标之前,谱指数保持在-2.7左右,并且{基于可用于$4$共旋转流的适当观测},功率水平不改变,而与流速无关。所有这些光谱特征,高速流的特点,建议存在一种磁场背景谱。这种光谱对于速度较快和速度较慢的风都是常见的,但是,任何时候观测者穿过将速度较快的风引导到行星际空间的通量管的内部时,湍流和大振幅的阿尔夫文光谱都会叠加到它上面。

英文摘要:

The solar wind is highly structured in fast and slow flows. These two dynamical regimes remarkably differ not only for the average values of magnetic field and plasma parameters but also for the type of fluctuations they transport. Fast wind is characterized by large amplitude, incompressible fluctuations, mainly Alfvénic, slow wind is generally populated by smaller amplitude and less Alfvénic fluctuations, mainly compressive. The typical corotating fast stream is characterized by a stream interface, a fast wind region and a slower rarefaction region formed by the trailing expansion edge of the stream. Moving {between these two regions}, from faster to slower wind, we observe the following behavior: a) the power level of magnetic fluctuations within the inertial range largely decreases, keeping the typical Kolmogorov scaling; b) at proton scales, for about one decade right beyond the high frequency break, the spectral index becomes flatter and flatter towards a value around -2.7; c) at higher frequencies, before the electron scales, the spectral index remains around -2.7 and, {based on suitable observations available for $4$ corotating streams}, the power level does not change, irrespective of the flow speed. All these spectral features, characteristic of high speed streams, suggest the existence of a sort of magnetic field background spectrum. This spectrum would be common to both faster and slower wind but, any time the observer would cross the inner part of a fluxtube channeling the faster wind into the interplanetary space, a turbulent and large amplitude Alfvénic spectrum would be superposed to it.

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