Propagation of large amplitude Alfvén waves in the solar wind current sheet

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Jul 1996

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Proceedings of the eigth international solar wind conference: Solar wind eight. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 382, pp. 323

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Solar Wind Plasma, Sources Of Solar Wind, Magnetohydrodynamic Waves

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The time evolution of Alfvénic perturbations in the Solar Wind current sheet is studied by using numerical simulations of the compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations. The simulations show that the interaction between the large amplitude Alfvénic pertubation and the solar wind current sheet decreases the correlation between velocity and magnetic field fluctuations and produces compressive fluctuations. The characteristics of these compressive fluctuations compare rather well with spatial observations. The behavior of the correlation between density and magnetic field intensity fluctuations and of the their spectra are well reproduced so that the physical mechanisms giving rise to these behaviors can be identified.

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