Kinetic properties of heavy solar wind ions from Ulysses-SWICS

Details Kinetic properties of heavy solar wind ions from Ulysses-SWICS Kinetic properties of heavy solar wind ions from Ulysses-SWICS

May 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006georl..3309103v&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 33, Issue 9, CiteID L09103

Physics

Plasma Physics

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Interplanetary Physics: Solar Cycle Variations (7536), Interplanetary Physics: Solar Wind Plasma, Space Plasma Physics: Charged Particle Motion And Acceleration, Space Plasma Physics: Wave/Particle Interactions (2483, 6984)

Scientific paper

The kinetic properties of heavy ions in the solar wind reflect the plasma processes governing the solar wind in the heliosphere. We use Ulysses-SWICS data that resolve heavy ions in a wide range of mass-per-charge values, 2 <= m/q <= 9.33, to investigate the heavy ions and their dynamic evolution throughout the heliosphere. While at 1 AU the imprint of Coulomb collisions is known to be present in the slow solar wind, we show that is vanishes by the time the wind has reached 5 AU. All ion species flow with equal bulk and thermal speeds there. This is interpreted as a progressive dominance of wave-particle interactions over Coulomb collisions.

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