NDLI: Non-Equilibrium Distribution Functions in the Heliospheric Interface and Their Relaxation by Local Wave

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Author	Chashei, Igor V. Fahr, Hans J. Lay, Guenter
Copyright Year	2005
Abstract	The partially ionized local interstellar medium, before interacting with the heliospheric plasma on the upwind side, most probably undergoes an outer bow shock. After conversion into a sub-magnetosonic plasma flow, it then passes around the heliopause. While the ionized component at the bow shock undergoes abrupt changes of its dynamical properties, the neutral component first continues to flow downstream of the shock with its unperturbed properties. Consequently, the two fluids immediately after the bow shock passage are out of dynamical and thermodynamical equilibrium. Neutral atoms move with a higher bulk velocity and are cooler than the ions. Due to intensive local charge-exchange couplings between neutral atoms and protons these different properties tend to mix each other via momentum and energy exchanges. It turns out that the charge exchange period is shorter than the relaxation period. Hence the distribution functions cannot relax rapidly enough to their highest-entropy forms, i.e. shifted Maxwellians. Here we study the transport processes of newly injected ions in velocity space considering their quasi-linear and non-linear interactions with the ambient MHD turbulence in the plasma interface region. For that purpose we study the turbulence levels in the helio-sheath plasma region. We calculate the expected deviations from equilibrium distributions of ionic and atomic species in the outer heliospheric interface. It clearly turns out from these studies that non-relaxated non-equilibrium distribution functions have to be expected both for O-/H-ions and atoms in this region. This has inherent implications for the diagnostics of interstellar parameters, deduced from observations made further inwards from the interface region.
Starting Page	163
Ending Page	185
Page Count	23
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00380938
Journal	Solar Physics
Volume Number	226
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	1573093X
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2005-01-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Astrophysics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Astronomy and Astrophysics Space and Planetary Science

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