What geometrical factors determine the in situ solar wind speed?

Details What geometrical factors determine the in situ solar wind speed? What geometrical factors determine the in situ solar wind speed?

2011-12-21

arxiv.org/abs/1112.4939v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

6 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Chinese Science Bulletin

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At present it remains to address why the fast solar wind is fast and the slow wind is slow. Recently we have shown that the field line curvature may substantially influence the wind speed $v$, thereby offering an explanation for the Arge et al. finding that $v$ depends on more than just the flow tube expansion factor. Here we show by extensive numerical examples that the correlation between $v$ and field line curvature is valid for rather general base boundary conditions and for rather general heating functions. Furthermore, the effect of field line curvature is even more pronounced when the proton-alpha particle speed difference is examined. We suggest that any solar wind model has to take into account the field line shape for any quantitative analysis to be made.

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