Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
Sep 1987
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987soph..111..429s&link_type=abstract
Solar Physics (ISSN 0038-0938), vol. 111, no. 2, 1987, p. 429-437.
Physics
Plasma Physics
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Free Boundaries, Solar Corona, Solar Cycles, Solar Rotation, Solar Wind, Kinetic Energy, Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
The correlations between the plasma characteristics of the solar wind flow in the vicinity (±12 hr) of stream-free sector boundaries near Earth are examined using the composite data base of interplanetary plasma for the period 1965 - 1980. The author confirms the result of Lopez et el. (1986) of an inverse relationship of the proton temperature (Tp) with the momentum flux density (NV2) in the low speed wind at 1 AU. The coefficients of lines of best fit to the Tp vs NV2 (as well as Tp vs V) distribution in our sample are, however, significantly different from those of the undifferentiated sample of low speed wind considered by Lopez et al. such that Tp is, in general, lower than expected. The author finds further that the proton number density (N) varies as the inverse cube of the flow speed (V) indicating an invariance of the kinetic energy flux density (NV3) relative to velocity structure in the plasma flow around stream-free boundaries. These average relationships, which are unaffected by interplanetary dynamical processes, are suggested to be due to sub-sonic addition of momentum and energy to the solar wind flow from the source structures, namely coronal streamers.
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