The radial temperature profile of the solar wind

Details The radial temperature profile of the solar wind The radial temperature profile of the solar wind

Mar 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003georl..30e..10r&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 30, Issue 5, pp. 10-1, CiteID 1206, DOI 10.1029/2002GL016551

Physics

21

Interplanetary Physics: Solar Wind Plasma, Interplanetary Physics: Interstellar Gas, Interplanetary Physics: Pickup Ions

Scientific paper

The Voyager data show a decrease in temperature in the inner heliosphere, an increase in temperature from 30-50 AU, a decrease from 50-63 AU, followed by another increase from 63-68 AU. Models of pickup proton heating predict a monotonic temperature rise beyond about 30 AU but do not account for the smaller scale (few AU) temperature variations. At 1 AU, the solar wind temperature is a strong function of the solar wind speed. We find that incorporating a temperature dependence on speed into the pickup proton heating results can reproduce much of the smaller-scale temperature variation observed out to 68 AU. The same speed-temperature dependence provides good fits to data from both the outer heliosphere and from near Earth. Since a large fraction of the proton energy results from heating, this work implies that the heating rate is a function of the speed.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

No associations

Rating

The radial temperature profile of the solar wind does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.

If you have personal experience with The radial temperature profile of the solar wind, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and The radial temperature profile of the solar wind will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-997581