Solar Winds Driven by Nonlinear Low-Frequency Alfven Waves from the Photosphere : Parametric Study for Fast/Slow Winds and Disappearance of Solar Winds

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2005-10-31

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0511006v8

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

27 pages, 16 figures embedded, accepted for publication in J. Geophys. Res

Scientific paper

(abridged) We investigate how the properties of the corona and solar wind in the open coronal holes depend on the properties of the magnetic fields and their footpoint motions at the surface, by perfoming 1D MHD simulations from the photosphere to 0.3 or 0.1AU. We impose low-frequency (<0.05Hz) transverse fluctuations of the field lines at the photosphere with various amplitude, spectrum, and polarization in the open flux tubes with different photospheric field strength, B, and super-radial expansion of the cross section, f_max. We find that a transonic solar wind is the universal consequence. The atmosphere is also stably heated up to >10^6K by the dissipation of the Alfven waves through compressive-wave generation and wave reflection in the case of the sufficient wave input with photospheric amplitude, > 0.7km/s. The density, and accordingly the mass flux, of solar winds show a quite sensitive dependence on because of an unstable aspect of the heating by the nonlinear Alfven waves. A case with =0.4km/s gives ~50 times smaller mass flux than the fiducial case for the fast wind with =0.7km/s; solar wind almost disappears only if becomes half. We also find that the solar wind speed has a positive correlation with B/f_max, which is consistent with recent observations. We finally show that both fast and slow solar winds can be explained by the single process, the dissipation of the low-frequency Alfven waves, with different sets of and B/f_max. Our simulations naturally explain the observed (i) anticorrelation of the solar wind speed and the coronal temperature and (ii) larger amplitude of the Alfvenic fluctuations in the fast winds. In Appendix, we also explain our implementation of the outgoing boundary condition of the MHD waves with some numerical tests.

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