Physics
Scientific paper
Oct 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011phrvl.107p5001o&link_type=abstract
Physical Review Letters, vol. 107, Issue 16, id. 165001
Physics
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Turbulence, Magnetohydrodynamics, Solar Wind Plasma, Sources Of Solar Wind
Scientific paper
The first direct determination of the inertial range energy cascade rate, using an anisotropic form of Yaglom’s law for magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, is obtained in the solar wind with multispacecraft measurements. The two-point mixed third-order structure functions of Elsässer fluctuations are integrated over a sphere in magnetic field-aligned coordinates, and the result is consistent with a linear scaling. Therefore, volume integrated heating and cascade rates are obtained that, unlike previous studies, make only limited assumptions about the underlying spectral geometry of solar wind turbulence. These results confirm the turbulent nature of magnetic and velocity field fluctuations in the low frequency limit, and could supply the energy necessary to account for the nonadiabatic heating of the solar wind.
Dasso Sergio
Matthaeus William H.
Osman Kareem T.
Wan Michael
Weygand James M.
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