Kinetic evolution and acceleration of the solar wind

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 20, 1999, Pages 3189-3192

  Tam, Sunny W Y ^a   Chang, Tom ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD; GEOPHYSICS; KINETIC MODEL; KINETICS;

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; IONS; KINETIC THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PROTONS;

COULOMB COLLISIONS; GLOBAL HYBRID MODEL; SOLAR WIND;

SOLAR RADIATION;

SOLAR WIND;

EID: 0033569053     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL010689     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Banaszkiewicz, M., W. I. Axford, and J. F. McKenzie, An analytic solar magnetic field model, Astron. Astrophys., 337, 940, 1998.
2. Bavassano, B., M. Dobrowolny, F. Mariani, and N. F. Ness, Radial evolution of power spectra of interplanetary Alfvénic turbulence, J. Geophys. Res., 87, 3617, 1982.
3. Belcher, J. W., and L. Davis, Jr., Large-amplitude Alfvén waves in the interplanetary medium, 2, J. Geophys. Res., 76, 3534, 1971.
4. Cranmer, S. R., G. B. Field, and J. L. Kohl, Spectroscopic constraints on models of ion cyclotron resonance heating in the polar solar corona and high-speed solar wind, Astrophys. J., 518, 937, 1999.
5. Czechowski, A., R. Ratkiewicz, J. F. McKenzie, and W. I. Axford, Heating and acceleration of minor ions in the solar wind, Astron. Astrophys., 335, 303, 1998.
6. Denskat, K. U., and F. M. Neubauer, Statistical properties of low-frequency magnetic field fluctuations in the solar wind from 0.29 to 1.0 AU during solar minimum conditions: HELIOS 1 and HELIOS 2, J. Geophys. Res., 87, 2215, 1982.
7. Dusenbery, P. B., and J. V. Hollweg, Ion-cyclotron heating and acceleration of solar wind minor ions, J. Geophys. Res., 86, 153, 1981.
8. Feldman, W. C., B. L. Barraclough, J. L. Phillips, and Y.-M. Wang, Constraints on high-speed solar wind structure near its coronal base: a Ulysses perspective, Astron. Astrophys., 316, 355, 1996.
9. ++ 3. Effects of resonant and nonresonant interactions with transverse waves, J. Geophys. Res., 83, 97, 1978.
10. Hu, Y. Q., R. Esser, and S. R. Habbal, A fast solar wind model with anisotropic proton temperature, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 14661, 1997.
11. Isenberg, P. A., Resonant acceleration and heating of solar wind ions: anisotropy and dispersion, J. Geophys. Res., 89, 6613, 1984.
12. Johnson, J. R., T. Chang, and G. B. Crew, A study of mode conversion in an oxygen-hydrogen plasma, Phys. Plasmas, 2, 1274, 1995.
13. Leer, E., T. E. Holzer, and E. C. Shoub, Solar wind from a corona with a large helium abundance, J. Geophys. Res., 97, 8183, 1992.
14. Livi, S., and E. Marsch, Generation of solar wind proton tails and double beams by Coulomb collisions, J. Geophys. Res., 92, 7255, 1987.
15. Marsch, E., K.-H. Mühlhäuser, H. Rosenbauer, R. Schwenn, and F. M. Neubauer, Solar wind helium ions: observations of the Helios solar probes between 0.3 and 1 AU, J. Geophys. Res., 87, 35, 1982a.
16. Marsch, E., K.-H. Mühlhäuser, R. Schwenn, H. Rosenbauer, W. Pilipp, and F. M. Neubauer, Solar wind protons: three-dimensional velocity distributions and derived plasma parameters measured between 0.3 and 1 AU, J. Geophys. Res., 87, 52, 1982b.
17. Marsch, E., C. K. Goertz, and K. Richter, Wave heating and acceleration of solar wind ions by cyclotron resonance, J. Geophys. Res., 87, 5030, 1982c.
18. McComas, D. J., S. J. Bame, W. C. Feldman, J. T. Gosling, and J. L. Phillips, Solar wind halo electrons from 1-4 AU, Geophys. Res. Lett., 19, 1291, 1992.
19. Pilipp, W. G., H. Miggenrieder, K.-H. Mühlhäuser, H. Rosenbauer, and R. Schwenn, Large-scale variations of thermal electron parameters in the solar wind between 0.3 and 1 AU, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 6305, 1990.
20. Retterer, J. M., T. Chang, and J. R. Jasperse, Ion acceleration in the suprauroral region: a Monte Carlo model, Geophys. Res. Lett., 10, 583, 1983.
21. Scudder, J. D., and S. Olbert, A theory of local and global processes which affect solar wind electrons: 1. the origin of typical 1 AU velocity distribution functions - steady state theory, J. Geophys. Res., 84, 2755, 1979.
22. Steinberg, J. T., A. J. Lazarus, K. W. Ogilvie, R. Lepping, and J. Byrnes, Differential flow between solar wind protons and alpha particles: First WIND observations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 1183, 1996.
23. Tam, S. W. Y., F. Yasseen, T. Chang, and S. B. Ganguli, Self-consistent kinetic photoelectron effects on the polar wind, Geophys. Res. Lett., 22, 2107, 1995.
24. Tam, S. W. Y., F. Yasseen, and T. Chang, Further development in theory/data closure of the photoelectron-driven polar wind and day-night transition of the outflow, Ann. Geophys., 16, 948, 1998.
25. Tu, C.-Y., and E. Marsch, Evidence for a "background" spectrum of solar wind turbulence in the inner heliosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 4337, 1990.