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帕克太阳探测器观测到的磁反转的形成

Formation of Magnetic Switchbacks Observed by Parker Solar Probe

Gabor Toth, Marco Velli, Bart van der Holst

摘要:

磁之字形反转是太阳风中径向磁场的快速高振幅反转,不涉及日球电流片交叉。70年代在水手号和太阳神号的数据中首次零星地看到,后来在1天文单位以外的地方由太阳系探测器航天器观察到,最近被帕克太阳探测器航天器确定为日光层内层太阳风波动的典型组成部分。在这里,我们提供了一个简单的预测理论,形成这些磁反转:之字形是由横向变化的径向波传播速度的圆偏振阿尔文波的剪切产生的。我们提供了一个解析表达式的磁场的变化,建立必要和充分条件,并表明,该机制的工作在一个现实的太阳风的情况。

英文摘要:

Magnetic switchbacks are rapid high amplitude reversals of the radial magnetic field in the solar wind that do not involve a heliospheric current sheet crossing. First seen sporadically in the seventies in Mariner and Helios data, switchbacks were later observed by the Ulysses spacecraft beyond 1 au and have been recently identified as a typical component of solar wind fluctuations in the inner heliosphere by the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft. Here we provide a simple yet predictive theory for the formation of these magnetic reversals: the switchbacks are produced by the shear of circularly polarized Alfvén waves by a transversely varying radial wave propagation velocity. We provide an analytic expression for the magnetic field variation, establish the necessary and sufficient conditions and show that the mechanism works in a realistic solar wind scenario.

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