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1 au处太阳风密度涨落的各向异性

Anisotropy of Density Fluctuations in the Solar Wind at 1 au

Jiaming Wang, Rohit Chhiber, Sohom Roy, Manuel E. Cuesta, Francesco Pecora, Yan Yang, Xiangrong Fu, Hui Li, William H. Matthaeus

AI总结:

本研究利用ACE任务10年原位数据,分析了1 au处太阳风密度涨落各向异性,发现快风含能尺度接近各向同性,而惯性区各向异性反转呈“板片状”结构。

摘要:

太阳风等离子体湍流的一个众所周知特性是,速度和磁场涨落的自相关(或等价地,其谱)表现出观测到的各向异性。在此,我们探讨了太阳风湍流的含能区和惯性区中等离子体密度涨落各向异性这一相关但似乎尚未得到充分研究的问题。利用来自Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE)任务的10年(1998-2008年)原位数据,我们发现除了最快的风速类别外,在准平行于大尺度平均磁场的方向上,密度相关尺度略大于准垂直方向。快风中的相关尺度与各向同性一致。我们还探讨了各向异性随相关水平变化的函数关系。我们发现,在低相关水平下,即在含能尺度及更大尺度上,快风的密度涨落接近各向同性,而慢风和中风则略微倾向于在垂直方向上更快地去相关。在相关值较大的相对较小尺度(惯性区)上,所有速度范围内的各向异性方向均发生反转,这意味着存在更“板片状”的结构,这种现象在快风样本中尤为显著。我们将此发现与已发表的速度和磁场相关性结果进行了对比。

英文摘要:

A well-known property of solar wind plasma turbulence is the observed anisotropy of the autocorrelations, or equivalently the spectra, of velocity and magnetic field fluctuations. Here we explore the related but apparently not well-studied issue of the anisotropy of plasma density fluctuations in the energy-containing and inertial ranges of solar wind turbulence. Using 10 years (1998-2008) of in situ data from the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) mission, we find that for all but the fastest wind category, the density correlation scale is slightly larger in directions quasi-parallel to the large-scale mean magnetic field as compared to quasi-perpendicular directions. The correlation scale in fast wind is consistent with isotropic. The anisotropy as a function of the level of correlation is also explored. We find at small correlation levels, i.e., at energy-containing scales and larger, the density fluctuations are close to isotropy for fast wind, and slightly favor more rapid decorrelation in perpendicular directions for slow and medium winds. At relatively smaller (inertial range) scales where the correlation values are larger, the sense of anisotropy is reversed in all speed ranges, implying a more "slab-like" structure, especially prominent in the fast wind samples. We contrast this finding with published results on velocity and magnetic field correlations.

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