TURBULENT HEATING OF THE DISTANT SOLAR WIND BY INTERSTELLAR PICKUP PROTONS IN A DECELERATING FLOW

Previous models of solar wind heating by interstellar pickup proton-driven turbulence have assumed that the wind speed is a constant in heliocentric radial position. However, the same pickup process, which is taken to provide the turbulent energy, must also decelerate the wind. In this paper, we ext...

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Main Authors: Isenberg, Philip A. (Author), Smith, Charles W. (Author), Matthaeus, William H. (Author), Richardson, John D. (Contributor)
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Physics/American Astronomical Society, 2015-03-04T21:46:47Z.
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