Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
Apr 1987
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987spet.rept...65s&link_type=abstract
In CNES, Space Environment Technology p 65-71 (SEE N88-11702 03-18)
Physics
Plasma Physics
Neutral Sheets, Plasma Physics, Solar Magnetic Field, Solar Terrestrial Interactions, Solar Wind, Collisionless Plasmas, Interstellar Matter, Magnetic Field Configurations, Magnetohydrodynamics, Solar Corona
Scientific paper
The solar wind is a plasma emitted by the Sun which flows radially outward carrying the frozen-in magnetic field. Thus the magnetic lines of force take a spiral shape in the ecliptic. In a solar meridian plane a neutral sheet is formed near the equatorial plane which delineates a magnetic sector structure in the ecliptic. To fully understand solar wind structure, it is necessary to understand how a collisionless plasma can behave as a fluid obeying MHD laws. The solar wind carries several types of disturbance which influence our environment. It contains information on the solar corona. It is the prototype of stellar winds which inject stellar matter into the interstellar medium, thus closing the universal cycle of matter.
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