Development of Solar Wind Model Driven by Empirical Heat Flux and Pressure Terms

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Dec 2008

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American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008, abstract #SH13B-1537

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2164 Solar Wind Plasma, 2169 Solar Wind Sources, 7509 Corona, 7511 Coronal Holes, 7524 Magnetic Fields

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We are developing a time stationary self-consistent 2D MHD model of the solar corona and solar wind as suggested by Sittler et al. (2003). Sittler & Guhathakurta (1999) developed a semi-empirical steady state model (SG model) of the solar wind in a multipole 3-streamer structure, with the model constrained by Skylab observations. Guhathakurta et al. (2006) presented a more recent version of their initial work. Sittler et al. (2003) modified the SG model by investigating time dependent MHD, ad hoc heating term with heat conduction and empirical heating solutions. Next step of development of 2D MHD models was performed by Sittler & Ofman (2006). They derived effective temperature and effective heat flux from the data-driven SG model and fit smooth analytical functions to be used in MHD calculations. Improvements of the Sittler & Ofman (2006) results now show a convergence of the 3-streamer topology into a single equatorial streamer at altitudes > 2 RS. This is a new result and shows we are now able to reproduce observations of an equatorially confined streamer belt. In order to allow our solutions to be applied to more general applications, we extend that model by using magnetogram data and PFSS model as a boundary condition. Initial results were presented by Selwa et al. [2008]. We choose solar minimum magnetogram data since during solar maximum the boundary conditions are more complex and the coronal magnetic field may not be described correctly by PFSS model. As the first step we studied the simplest 2D MHD case with variable heat conduction, and with empirical heat input combined with empirical momentum addition for the fast solar wind. We use realistic magnetic field data based on NSO/GONG data, and plan to extend the study to 3D. This study represents the first attempt of fully self-consistent realistic model based on real data and including semi-empirical heat flux and semi-empirical effective pressure terms. References: Sittler E. C. Jr. and Guhathakurta M., 1999, ApJ, 523, 812-826 Sittler E. C. Jr., Ofman L., Gibson S., Guhathakurta M., Davila J., Skoug R., Fludra A., Holzer T., 2003, Solar Wind 10, 113 Sittler, E. C. Jr. and Ofman L., 2006, ILWS, GOA, India Guhathakurta, M., E. C. Sittler Jr. and L. Ofman, JGR, Vol 111, A11215, 2006. Selwa, M., L. Ofman, E. C. Sittler Jr. and M. Kramar, Development of solar wind model driven by empirical heat flux, SHINE Meeting, 2008.

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