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Heating of the solar wind with electron and proton effects.

Authors :
Breech, Ben
Cranmer, Steven R.
Matthaeus, William H.
Kasper, Justin C.
Oughton, Sean
Source :
AIP Conference Proceedings. 3/25/2010, Vol. 1216 Issue 1, p214-217. 4p. 6 Graphs.
Publication Year :
2010

Abstract

We examine the effects of including effects of both protons and electrons on the heating of the fast solar wind through two different approaches. In the first approach, we incorporate the electron temperature in an MHD turbulence transport model for the solar wind. In the second approach, we adopt more empirically based methods by analyzing the measured proton and electron temperatures to calculate the heat deposition rates. Overall, we conclude that incorporating separate proton and electron temperatures and heat conduction effects provides an improved and more complete model of the heating of the solar wind. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
0094243X
Volume :
1216
Issue :
1
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
AIP Conference Proceedings
Publication Type :
Conference
Accession number :
48944162
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3395840