Velocity shear instabilities in the anisotropic solar wind and the heating of ions perpendicular to the magnetic field

Details Velocity shear instabilities in the anisotropic solar wind and the heating of ions perpendicular to the magnetic field Velocity shear instabilities in the anisotropic solar wind and the heating of ions perpendicular to the magnetic field

Jan 1984

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984jgr....89...27m&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 89, Jan. 1, 1984, p. 27-36.

Physics

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Anisotropic Media, Collisionless Plasmas, Magnetohydrodynamic Stability, Shear Flow, Solar Wind Velocity, Space Plasmas, Ion Acoustic Waves, Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability, Magnetohydrodynamic Waves

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The linear and quasi-linear theory of perturbations in finite-β, collisionless plasmas that incorporate a sheared velocity flow is developed. A simple, one-dimensional magnetic field geometry is assumed to adequately represent solar wind conditions near the sun, i.e., at R ≈ 0.3 AU. Two modes are examined in detail: an ion-acoustic mode (finite-β stabilized) and a compressional Alfvén mode (finite-β threshold, high-β stabilization). The role played by equilibrium temperature anisotropies, in the linear stability of these modes, is also presented. From the quasi-linear theory, the effects of waves on the state of temperature components (parallel and perpendicular to the magnetic field) of the solar wind is determined: qualitative agreement with the observed anisotropies of electrons and ions is obtained. The quasi-linear temperature changes are also shown to result in saturation of these instabilities.

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