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On the preferential acceleration and heating of solar wind heavy ions
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Hollweg, J. V. Isenberg, P. A. |
| Copyright Year | 1982 |
| Description | The feasibility of producing the observed velocities and temperatures of solar wind heavy ions by the resonant cyclotron interaction with left-polarized hydromagnetic waves was investigated. A "most favorable case" scenario in which the waves are parallel-propagating and dispersionless and the energy for the wave acceleration and heating is taken from saturated low-frequency Alfven waves via a cascade to higher frequencies, is incorporated into a numerical solar wind code and agreement with observation is tested. The resonant cyclotron interaction is shown to fail on at least three points, even in this most favorable case. |
| File Size | 2900161 |
| Page Count | 59 |
| File Format | |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19820022336 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t91884b10 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1982-06-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Solar Physics Protons Heavy Ions Plasma-particle Interactions Magnetohydrodynamic Waves Ion Temperature Cyclotron Resonance Alpha Particles Wave Interaction Solar Wind Heat Flux Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
