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在太阳风中通量守恒,径向定标,马赫数和临界距离:磁流体动力学和磁流体动力学观测

Flux conservation, radial scalings, Mach numbers, and critical distances in the solar wind: magnetohydrodynamics and Ulysses observations

Daniel Verscharen, Stuart D. Bale, Marco Velli

摘要:

太阳和日光层物理学的一个关键挑战是了解太阳风的加速。作为一种超音速、超阿尔夫维尼等离子体流,太阳风将质量、动量、能量和角动量从太阳带到行星际空间。我们提出了一个框架,基于双流体磁流体力学来估计这些量的通量的基础上独立的测量位置的日心距离的航天器数据。将这种方法应用于太阳辐射数据集,使我们能够研究这些通量对日纬度和太阳活动周期的依赖性。标度定律的使用为我们提供了标度阿尔文马赫数和音速马赫数以及阿尔文临界半径和音速临界半径的日纬度依赖性和太阳周期依赖性。此外,我们估计了局部热压力和局部能量密度在磁场平衡的距离。这些结果可作为帕克太阳探测器和太阳轨道器观测的预测,帕克太阳探测器目前正在探索日光层的内部,太阳轨道器将在任务过程中测量日光层内部黄道平面外的太阳风。

英文摘要:

One of the key challenges in solar and heliospheric physics is to understand the acceleration of the solar wind. As a super-sonic, super-Alfvénic plasma flow, the solar wind carries mass, momentum, energy, and angular momentum from the Sun into interplanetary space. We present a framework based on two-fluid magnetohydrodynamics to estimate the flux of these quantities based on spacecraft data independent of the heliocentric distance of the location of measurement. Applying this method to the Ulysses dataset allows us to study the dependence of these fluxes on heliolatitude and solar cycle. The use of scaling laws provides us with the heliolatitudinal dependence and the solar-cycle dependence of the scaled Alfvénic and sonic Mach numbers as well as the Alfvén and sonic critical radii. Moreover, we estimate the distance at which the local thermal pressure and the local energy density in the magnetic field balance. These results serve as predictions for observations with Parker Solar Probe, which currently explores the very inner heliosphere, and Solar Orbiter, which will measure the solar wind outside the plane of the ecliptic in the inner heliosphere during the course of the mission.

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