Hydrodynamics of the solar wind expansion: Why is the solar wind supersonic?

Astrophysics and Space Science

Volumn 277, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 157-167

  Velli, M ^a  

^a Università di Firenz   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035600532     PISSN: 0004640X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012237708634     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Bondi, H.: 1952, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 112, 195.
2. Del Zanna, L., Velli, M. and Londrillo, P.: 1998, Dynamical response of a stellar atmosphere to pressure perturbations: numerical simulations, Astron. Astrophys. L13.
3. Holzer, T.E. and Axford, W.I.: 1970, Theory of stellar winds and related flows, Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 8, 30.
4. Hundhausen, A.J.: 1972, Coronal Expansion and Solar Wind, Springer Verlag, Berlin.
5. Kadomtsev, B.: 1983, Phenomènes Collectifs dans le Plasma, MIR, Moscow.
6. Korevaar, P.: 1989, Time-dependent corona models: coronae with accretion, Astron. Astrophys. 226, 209.
7. Londrillo, P. and Del Zanna, L.: 2000, High order upwind schemes for multidimensional magneto-hydrodynamics, Astrophys. J. 530, 508.
8. McCrea, W.: 1956, Shock Waves in Steady Radial Motion Under Gravity, Astrophys. J. 124, 461.
9. Parker, E.N.: 1958, Astrophys. J. 128, 664.
10. Parker, E.: 1963, Interplanetary Dynamical Processes, Interscience, New York.
11. Roberts, P.H. and Soward, A.M.: 1972, Stellar Winds and Breezes, Proc. Roy. Soc. London 328 A, 185.
12. Theuns, T. and David, M.: 1992, Spherically symmetric polytropic flow, Astrophys. J. 384, 587.
13. Velli, M.: 1993, On the propagation of Alfvén waves in radially stratified atmospheres and winds, Astron. Astrophys. 270, 304.
14. Velli, M.: 1994, From supersonic winds to accretion: comments on the stability of stellar winds and related flows, Astrophys. J. 43, L55.