Nonlinear spherical Alfven waves

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1997-09-23

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9709222v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages, 14 figures, LaTeX MN style, to appear in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.t01-1-2

We present an one-dimensional numerical study of Alfven waves propagating along a radial magnetic field. Neglecting losses, any spherical Alfven wave, no matter how small its initial amplitude is, becomes nonlinear at sufficiently large radii. From previous simulations of Alfven waves in plane parallel atmospheres we did expect the waves to steepen and produce current sheets in the nonlinear regime, which was confirmed by our new calculations. On the other hand we did find that even the least nonlinear waves were damped out almost completely before 10 solar radii. A damping of that kind is required by models of Alfven wave-driven winds from old low-mass stars as these winds are mainly accelerated within a few stellar radii.

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