Non-Linear Interaction of Alfven Waves with Compressive Fast Magnetosonic Waves

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Aug 1980

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Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 88, P. 277, 1980

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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This paper is devoted to the study of the non-linear interactions between oblique fast m.h.d. waves, which are observed to be almost always present in the solar wind, and the Alfvén waves, which form the most important component of the m.h.d. turbulence in the solar wind. The main "weak turbulence" process is the so-called non-linear Landau effect; it damps the compressible modes, heats, but not strongly, the thermal protons, and may enhance the Alfvén waves; the anisotropy between backward and forward Alfvén waves is always increased by this process. However, this non-linear process is not very efficient in the solar wind, so that Alfvén waves can be considered as decoupled from compressive waves in the major part of the m.h.d. spectral range.

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