Ulysses electron distributions fitted with Kappa functions

Details Ulysses electron distributions fitted with Kappa functions Ulysses electron distributions fitted with Kappa functions

May 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997georl..24.1151m&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 24, Issue 9, p. 1151-1154

Physics

Plasma Physics

107

Interplanetary Physics: Solar Wind Plasma, Interplanetary Physics: Sources Of The Solar Wind, Solar Physics, Astrophysics, And Astronomy: General Or Miscellaneous, Space Plasma Physics: Kinetic And Mhd Theory

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We fit Kappa functions to 16,000 velocity distribution functions measured in the solar wind by the electron plasma instrument on board Ulysses. Statistically, the electron distributions are observed to have important high velocity tails in the fast solar wind but are closer to a Maxwellian in the slow wind. We also discuss how this result could support a recent kinetic model of the solar wind proposed by Maksimovic, Pierrard, and Lemaire [1997].

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