The Kinetic Expansion of Solar-wind Electrons: Transport Theory and Predictions for the Very Inner Heliosphere
The Kinetic Expansion of Solar-wind Electrons: Transport Theory and Predictions for the Very Inner Heliosphere
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太阳风电子的动力学膨胀:日球层内部的输运理论和预测
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10.3847/1538-4357/ac4805
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2022
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通讯作者:
M. Bakrania
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Seong;D. Verscharen;C. Vocks;Joel B. Abraham;C. Owen;R. Wicks;A. Fazakerley;D. Stansby;L. Berčič;G. Nicolaou;Jeffersson A. Agudelo Rueda;M. Bakrania
We propose a transport theory for the kinetic evolution of solar-wind electrons in the heliosphere. We derive a gyro-averaged kinetic transport equation that accounts for the spherical expansion of the solar wind and the geometry of the Parker spiral magnetic field. To solve our three-dimensional kinetic equation, we develop a mathematical approach that combines the Crank–Nicolson scheme in velocity space and a finite-difference Euler scheme in configuration space. We initialize our model with isotropic electron distribution functions and calculate the kinetic expansion at heliocentric distances from 5 to 20 solar radii. In our kinetic model, the electrons evolve mainly through the combination of ballistic particle streaming, the magnetic mirror force, and the electric field. By applying fits to our numerical results, we quantify the parameters of the electron strahl and the core part of the electron velocity distributions. The strahl fit parameters show that the density of the electron strahl is around 7% of the total electron density at a distance of 20 solar radii, the strahl bulk velocity and strahl temperature parallel to the background magnetic field stay approximately constant beyond a distance of 15 solar radii, and β ∥s (i.e., the ratio of the strahl parallel thermal pressure to the magnetic pressure) is approximately constant with heliocentric distance at a value of about 0.02. We compare our results with data measured by the Parker Solar Probe. Furthermore, we provide theoretical evidence that the electron strahl is not scattered by the oblique fast-magnetosonic/whistler instability in the near-Sun environment.
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影响因子:
4.8
作者:
Boldyrev, Stanislav;Horaites, Konstantinos
通讯作者:
Horaites, Konstantinos
DOI:
10.3847/1538-4357/ab7a93
发表时间:
2020-04
期刊:
The Astrophysical Journal
影响因子:
--
作者:
B. Tang;G. Zank;V. Kolobov
通讯作者:
B. Tang;G. Zank;V. Kolobov
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.1917905117
发表时间:
2020-04-28
影响因子:
11.1
作者:
Boldyrev, Stanislav;Forest, Cary;Egedal, Jan
通讯作者:
Egedal, Jan
影响因子:
4.8
作者:
Horaites, Konstantinos;Astfalk, Patrick;Boldyrev, Stanislav;Jenko, Frank
通讯作者:
Jenko, Frank
影响因子:
4.8
作者:
Schroeder, J M;Boldyrev, S;Astfalk, P
通讯作者:
Astfalk, P