Kinetic and Hydrodynamic Representations of Coronal Expansion and The Solar Wind

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Mar 2010

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TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL SOLAR WIND CONFERENCE. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1216, pp. 3-7 (2010).

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Solar Wind, Hydrodynamics, Exosphere, Solar Corona, Electric Fields, Particle Emission, Solar Wind, Hydrodynamics, Exospheric Composition And Chemistry, Corona, Electric And Magnetic Fields, Solar Magnetism

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We consider the Lemaire-Scherer construction of the supersonic solar wind as the kinetic escape of a collisionless (scatter-free) plasma from an exosphere near the Sun. The radial electric field enforces equality of the electron and ion densities and also equality of the electron and ion fluxes. Consequently, the electrons form an electrostatically confined atmosphere with the temperature declining outward only slowly from the exosphere and becoming the work horse that lifts and accelerates the ions to supersonic velocity.

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