Collisionless solar wind: 1. Constant electron temperature
Collisionless solar wind: 1. Constant electron temperature
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无碰撞太阳风:1.恒定的电子温度
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1970
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J. V. Hollweg
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作者:
J. V. Hollweg
A 2-fluid model for the solar wind is discussed, in which the electrons, at constant temperature, are treated hydrodynamically and the protons are assumed to become collisionless, at a distance from the sun at which they are already supersonic. A radial magnetic field is included, with radial gravitational and electric fields; the electric field arises from the condition of quasi-neutrality and is an important feature of the model. Quantities such as bulk velocity, concentration, and proton temperatures parallel and perpendicular to the magnetic field are discussed directly in terms of the proton distribution function; viscosity and heat conduction are thus automatically included. The principle result is that if the electron temperature in the vicinity of the point where the electrons become collisionless (10–20 solar radii from the sun) is of the order 106 °K, the flow velocity at the orbit of the earth is in excess of 300 km/sec, and the average proton temperature is of the order of 10,000 °K. Both of these figures are higher than those obtained by the 2-fluid hydrodynamical model. The velocity far from the base of the model varies as Te1/2 and is relatively insensitive to temperature or velocity at the base or to the location of the base. The thermal anisotropy of the protons, T∥/T⊥, is predicted to be about 50.