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帕克太阳探测器I的背景预测:关键表面和区域

Contextual Predictions for Parker Solar Probe I: Critical Surfaces and Regions

Rohit Chhiber, Arcadi V. Usmanov, William H. Matthaeus, Melvyn L. Goldstein

摘要:

日冕和年轻的太阳风可以用临界面来表征--音速面、阿尔文面和第一等离子体- $β$统一面--它们划分了太阳风流经历某些关键转变的区域。全球数值模拟和遥感观测为大尺度研究这些表面提供了一种自然模式,从而为即将发射的帕克太阳探测器(PSP)预计进行的高分辨率现场测量提供了宝贵的背景。本研究利用全球三维磁流体动力学模拟的太阳风的关键表面的特点,并调查在propinquitous地区的流动。太阳活动的影响被纳入不同的源磁偶极子倾斜和采用基于磁图的边界条件。一个磁流体动力学湍流模型自洽耦合到整体流方程,使调查的湍流特性的关键区域附近的流动。模拟结果与多种遥感观测结果进行了比较。一个模拟的PSP轨迹是用来提供上下文预测的航天器计算的临界表面。与现有的遥感结果,无论是从日光层成像和无线电闪烁研究的解释目前的结果相比,看到广泛的协议。轨迹分析表明,PSP可能在$β=1$、声波和阿尔文表面内度过的时间段敏感地取决于太阳活动的程度、太阳偶极子的倾斜和日光层电流片的位置。

英文摘要:

The solar corona and young solar wind may be characterized by critical surfaces -- the sonic, Alfvén, and first plasma-$β$ unity surfaces -- that demarcate regions where the solar wind flow undergoes certain crucial transformations. Global numerical simulations and remote sensing observations offer a natural mode for the study of these surfaces at large scales, thus providing valuable context for the high-resolution in-situ measurements expected from the soon-to-be-launched Parker Solar Probe (PSP). The present study utilizes global three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the solar wind to characterize the critical surfaces and investigate the flow in propinquitous regions. Effects of solar activity are incorporated by varying source magnetic dipole tilts and employing magnetogram-based boundary conditions. A magnetohydrodynamic turbulence model is self-consistently coupled to the bulk flow equations, enabling investigation of turbulence properties of the flow in the vicinity of critical regions. The simulation results are compared with a variety of remote sensing observations. A simulated PSP trajectory is used to provide contextual predictions for the spacecraft in terms of the computed critical surfaces. Broad agreement is seen in the interpretation of the present results in comparison with existing remote sensing results, both from heliospheric imaging and from radio scintillation studies. The trajectory analyses show that the period of time that PSP is likely to spend inside the $β=1$, sonic and Alfvén surfaces depends sensitively on the degree of solar activity and the tilt of the solar dipole and location of the heliospheric current sheet.

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