Model structure of a cosmic-ray mediated stellar or solar wind

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Apr 1988

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Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 194, no. 1-2, April 1988, p. 297-303.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Galactic Cosmic Rays, Particle Acceleration, Shock Wave Propagation, Solar Wind, Stellar Winds, Energetic Particles, Heliosphere, Hydrodynamic Equations

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An idealized hydrodynamic model is presented for the mediation of a free-streaming stellar wind by galactic cosmic rays or energetic particles accelerated at the stellar wind termination shock. The spherically-symmetric stellar wind is taken to be cold; the only body force is the cosmic ray pressure gradient. The cosmic rays are treated as a massless fluid with an effective mean diffusion coefficient k proportional to radial distance r. The structure of the governing equations is investigated both analytically and numerically. Solutions for a range of values of k are presented which describe the deceleration of the stellar wind and a transition to nearly incompressible flow and constant cosmic ray pressure at large r. In the limit of small k the transition steepens to a strong stellar wind termination shock. For large k the stellar wind is decelerated gradually with no shock transition. It is argued that the solutions provide a simple model for the mediation of the solar wind by interstellar ions as both pickup ions and the cosmic ray anomalous component which together dominate the pressure of the solar wind at large r.

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